College Magazine Front Cover Analysis:
The title of this magazine (SOUP) refers to a stereotypical student's lifestyle - living off can's of soup and beans on toast etc..showing that perhaps they dont look after themselves as well as they should. Also the main image on the front cover is an open can of soup, on a red hot ring of an oven. This also symbolises that students dont even know how to heat up the soup, and they do it the most dangerous way possible. This will engage with the young people as they may be able to relate to this with the way they live themselves. The font they have used for this title, and also for the coverlines is fairly modern and contemporary, staying away from older fonts and fonts that are used for other recognisable magazines. The presentation of the image and the style of writing is of a popart kind of style, which is also quite modern and will be more likely to attract college students than if it was more old fashioned. Above the coverlines they have used the word "Ingredients:" which links to the title "SOUP". this is a very clever way to link the cover all together and to make students want to read what is included in the magazine. The colours used are fairly simple, keeping with the popart theme. However they are eye-catching, without being too bright and overpowering.

Questionnaire analysis:

After circulating a college magazine questionnaire to it's target audience (21 students at east norfolk sixth form college); i found that 95% of them don't even read the magazine. This clearly tells me that our college magazine needs some adjustments made to it in order to appeal to a wider range of students.

The people that took the survey said that they would like to see features on: fashion, x-box/gaming, jobs, up-coming events and sports in the magazine. This gives us as indication of what these young people are most interested in, and also gives ideas for successful features in our magazine.
70% of the magazine's target audience said that they would be prepared to pay around 50p for it, depending on what the first issue is like etc.. Others said that they would be encouraged to read the magazine if it was free or contained interesting "free stuff".

Another question in the survey suggested that students would like a "what's on" page in the magazine and wanted information about the college and the subjects they are doing. This confirms that they are not aware of the things going on in and around college; making it a definite thing that we should add into the magazine.

Results showed that 83% of students given the questionnaire advised that the college magazine should be released weekly. However only a few said that they would be happy to subscribe to it.

<-- I created this diagram to show the audience profile for the music magazine that I am going to create.

...This is now different, my music magazine will appeal mainly to girls between the ages of 16 and 30.