School magazine cover research

On the magazine cover above, the contrast between the colours blue and white help the title to stand out. It is bold and helps the title to be more recognizable. The title of the magazine cover ‘Academy’ is spelt with a lower case A; this can be informal having the first letter of the word with no capital letter. This tells us that the magazine is trying to appeal to a younger audience; it also does not look very professional. The main colour of this magazine cover is blue; this includes the top and the bottom border line of the colour as well as the student’s uniform. This colour symbolises wisdom, confidence and intelligence. This suggests that the school as being full of students who are wise, confident and intelligent. Overall this will show the school as a good school.

It is obvious that both of the magazine covers are school magazines. On the magazine cover below, the main image is of a girl wearing school uniform: blouse, tie and blazer. The audience will notice straight away that the girl is wearing uniform and feel that the magazine somehow has got something to do with their age range. The cover lines in this magazine also relate to school life such as: ‘GCSE results’, in school young people from everywhere around the age of 16 will be doing their GCSE’s. in this magazine cover the headline ‘teenage stress’ will get young people’s attention straight away as they will be stressed with their exams and other situations that teenagers go through, so this will make the readers feel as if they can relate to this headline which will result them into reading the magazine more. The colour yellow symbolises joy and happiness but it does not go with the word ‘stress’. However the writer could have used yellow because this colour is very vibrant, so it will help to point out the main topic that the magazine is going to be based about. This bright colour will also attract the audience to the magazine.

 The target audience for both of these magazine covers are young people aged between 15-18 years, who are still in full time education, both genders and who are going through exams and find school stressful.