Deconstructions

The target audience is students aged 16 - 20

The genre for this magazine is a London magazine aimed at current students.

Masthead: “Term Times” is the title of this magazine. The name ‘Term Times’ is a play on words from the well known magazine “The Times”, “The Sunday Times” and “The New York Times” plus more, because a lot of newspapers use the word ‘Times’ in their titles it suggests to the audience that the creators of the magazine want to make it look more official..

The colour blue suggests a new fresh start which is also linked to the idea of being relaxed and technology.

The cover image is a medium close up two shotHaving articles at the bottom

of the magazine shows the audience (the students who will get this magazine) what to expect inside. An article called ‘Actor Prepares’ highlights the idea that students can get involved and learn about acting, this fits in with the magazine well as its for students.

The article called ‘A Level and BTEC National Diploma Glory’ is a relevant article to be in this magazine due to the article being about students, this is also an article that students will be interested in as its about them.

Mast Head The mast head is big and bold, this instantly catches the readers attention and also distinguishes the genre and concept of the over all magazine. The way that the background behind the title is black makes the title stand out even more.

The cover image is a medium shot, by having a light background and a dark dress it makes the person stand out more on the front cover, the way that the women is holding an orchestra stick and a music stand with music sheets helps show that this is a magazine for music students. Also having the background as a picture of a music room with instruments in it helps show that this is a music college magazine and will stand out for students that take music or are interested in music.

The main article shows how the college is bringing in more rewards for students, this is an article that students will be interested in as its apart of their life.

The target audience for this college magazine is 16 – 20 year olds who are interested in music and/or who wants to/is doing music as a college course.

This magazine looks like its well made and looks like it has a glossy effect to the front cover, this genuinely means that it is made to a better quality which makes the price rise.

This magazine looks very American from how the woman in the cover picture is posing and the feel from the cover of the magazine seems to be very Americanised.

The mast head is plan and boring , the bold white writing on the black boarder makes the mast head stand out but it wouldn’t grab the readers attention if it was amongst another school magazines.

The logo of this front cover tells the audience the who the makers of this magazine is, for example ‘Chichester high school for girls’

The lead article of this magazine is relevant to the readers of this magazine because its about what's been happening in their school recently. The cover image links to the lead article and is a wide angle long shot image.

The target audience for this school magazine is 11 – 16 year olds and also parents, this is so students knew what has been going on recently in their school and also for parents to read so they know what has been going on as well.

This school magazine is quite plain and doesn’t have that much colour on it, the design of the front cover is average with everything placed in the general way and the completely white background suggests that this is just made out of paper which is low quality and looks cheaply made.

By having pictures on which articles are on which page it doesn’t really give the readers an insight as they can’t look forward to a certain article as they don’t know what is on which page.