Masthead

Selling line

Main image

Date line

Cover lines

Masthead

The masthead of this magazine is “Spotlight”. The typeface used is bold, and looks very arty. By using the white font on the dark blue background makes the title visible. The word spotlight means to show something clearly. So naming a college magazine “Spotlight”, means that they are show casing or putting a “Spotlight” on their students work.

Date line and Selling line

The date line has the same colouring as the masthead. The white lettering on the dark blue background. Instead of writing the full date, the magazine has only written “Autumn 1 – 2008”, stating that is the fist issue of the Autumn term in 2008.

The selling line again follows the same colour scheme. Making the words visible, and understandable. In the selling line the magazine is stating the school’s name and what subjects they specialise in, “Media, Art and Science”.

Main imageThe main image looks like an painting one of their students has created. Which gives an impression that the magazine content will be filled with the students work. In the selling line they did say that they are a “Media, Art and Science college”, and they have showcased that by putting a piece of art work that a student has createdThe main image takes up most of the front cover. They have chosen a painting that would not be washed out by the background colour, the bright colours of the painting make it stand out form the dark blue background.

Cover lines

The cover lines use the same colour scheme as the rest of the front cover. The mixer of font sizes, shows an arty side to the magazine, but not making it uniform. Instead of the cover lines on top of the image.

Masthead

Selling line

Date line

Main image

Cover line

Masthead

The masthead of this magazine is “The Reflection”. The colouring of the title is a two tone blue on a black background. The white outlining of the lettering makes the lettering visible. The blue in the font also matches the blue on the girl dress.The college has made a fashion magazine, so naming the magazine “The Reflection” is appropriate as in fashion u need to see your reflection.

Selling, date and cover lines

The selling line and the date line do not follow the same colour scheme as the masthead, as the font colour of the selling and date line is white.It is also stating that it is the third issue. “Issue 3”The selling line says “High Quality Learning for All", they are stating that the content of their magazine is high quality.The date line says “June 2008” which tells us that it has been released on June.

The cover line says “Year 11 fashion show Page 13” telling the reader the content of the magazine. Also the line in placed on the bottom right hand side, also making the front look less cluttered. The white lettering helps the reader see the sentence otherwise there would be difficulty see the sentence, if it was on the pink on higher with a range of colour.

Main image The main image is two girls in fancy dresses. As the college magazine is a fashion magazine, it makes sense to make the front cover main image to show dresses. It also looks like they are going to prom.As the selling line is “High Quality Learning for All” they seem to try to make the girls look very nice.