School Covers and Contents Analysis

Perry Wayman

Competitions for a desirable piece of tech.This is designed to enticethe reader in and possiblyto encourage them to flipthrough the magazineoff the shelf.

References to what would be expected to be appealing to the stereotypical reader. This magazine also shows itself to be unisex orientated with Videogames (A male-dominated hobby) and eco-friendliness (Stereotypically Female).

Colours on the front page are made to highlight areas of the magazine. Themain focus is on the celebrity at the front,with the background out of focus,this forces the reader to look atthe celebrity. The words with the red-background makes the readerlook and read these first.

Font on the page is easily readable and done in an interesting way to ensure that the reader reads the information and retains it in their mind. A slight pun helps to also keep the user’s interest.

Pictures are clear to the reader and helps them to understand what the actual content of the magazine will be. They are arranged and blended in an interesting way which again helps to hold the readers interest.

This is an example of a more complex cover. It contains just a small spot at the top in which there are ideas of a practical cover. This contains the schools logo and crest along with the month and issue of the magazine.

The massive amount of text and little amounts of pictures display that this magazine is distributed free of cost and does not need to encourage the reader in. An important thing to note is that although it does not need to entice the reader in, it does need to keep their attention.

Busy background detracts the reader’s eyes from the actual contents of the content page. This is poorly done as it should be the actual content that the reader concentrates on.

Pictures are of poor quality but are laidout in an interesting way and helps thereader to grasp what content the pageis about. This again does not help thecontent as it is again detracting the eyesaway from the content.

Unreadable font means that when the reader is finally able to read the contents of the page, it is done with great difficulty which means that the user loses interest in the page.

This contents page is largely text based. While they are not entire paragraphs which would otherwise lose the reader's interest, there are still substantial amounts of text.Being short, this enables the reader to read them but only skimming.

It also includes a notice board-esque graphic. This shows a sense of informality whilst showing useful information to the reader, this ensures that the reader will read it.

This contents page is extremely simple and contains only 4 different colours. This helps to pull the reader's eyes in to the important places without swamping them with swathes of primary colours.

No pictures however means that an outsider or only vaguely interested reader is likely not to read on as they have no idea about the articles. There are also no descriptions which further adds to this.