Friday, 26 September 2014


Analysing the contents page of a school magazine.

The luminous yellow background of this school’s magazine’s contents page is what makes the page attractive and immediately catches the eye of the reader, presenting a bright and fun feel. Also it creates an engaging background so that the font can stand out and easier to read.

The letters used in this piece are quite large in size and are centred to the page, the font used shows that the school is proper and formal, although the colour scheme used for the font definitely show a more lively cool feel to the page, meaning that the school are not trying to portray that they cannot have a light-hearted fun feel to the school in general, as judging by the pictures the student in this school seem to be in their mid-teens years and the school want to make them feel comfortable and that they are on the same level, whereas if the contents page was to be plain colours e.g. black and white, and no pictures the school would obviously not put into consideration that the mass market audience that this would not appeal to them.

The pictures in this schools contents page seem to take up a large portion on the page and the text to take up less than half, we are seeing less information and more of the visual aspects of what would be in this school, instead of reading about it, this school clearly wants to portray an immediate visual effect.

The pictures in this page are linking with the text e,g “6th form life”and there is a picture of a 6th form common room where students look to be sitting in a room relaxing, aswell as “fun and games” and the conjoining picture is where the first picture on the right hand side is, he looks like he is taking some time out and possibly playing a game on his computer.