Analysis of the college magazine soup

This magazine comprises a range of media elements such as content language. technical code and content code to produce a successful good magazine cover. You can see by the visual representations that this is aimed at students. This magazine easily incorporates a rande of skills in order to have its effect on/with the reader.

The basic style of this magazine means that it is aimed at students, with the font being stylish, and has a graffiti effect, this enhances the teenage theme of the magazine. The black colour is more associated with teenagers. The simple yet effective styles enhance the meaning of this piece.

The basic brief description of what this magazine has to offer is also in a student style and being red makes this information satnd out more. A mixture of different font sizes and the use of capitals, also grabs the reader's attention. From this text you know that it is aimed at student life, because the text style and font are seen as being 'younger'.

The visual representations of rounded circles not only stand out but they also draw attention to the piece. This is also in a teenage style showing that it is aimed at students. The picture of the amp relates to a teenagers frame of mind, as they are more influentially musically influenced than other types of people, and the media tend to target the younger, student/teeange/young adult market with music.

The can of soup relates to the title, and this adds a bit of student life to the magazine. The soup is unique in the way it's aimed at students. The background grey/black colour goes with the theme of the magazine as the student image is often darker. Having the dirty, unclean effect these coulours are associated with teenagers. The roughness of this image adds to this teenage world, and how things aren't perfect.

This piece also uses the normal magazine layout, of a small date and issue number as these aren't the main focus points of the magazine. But the picture takes up 2/3 of the page, as this grabs the users attention. this magazine cover uses 4 main covers of black, white, red and grey and are used to be eye catching for the student.