First magazine cover analysis

LIIAR:

Language:

The camera angle of the photo of the student is a slightly low angle the connotation of this is to show that she is in power that you are looking up towards the student. The angle it is taken at is from a midpoint view, the student is also holding an object which is to do with the course that the magazine is representing. Mise-en-scene is used in a way here in the magazine cover, the background contrasts with the student doing the practical work, this is shown by the background having a graph in a science lab, this is showing that the background links with what she is doing and all her surroundings are to do with science to show that she is working in a science lab. Another thing in the term language in media is the masthead on this college magazine is a good size and font as it is really clear to read and also a big size which shows clearly what the college magazines name is.  It is very well presented for the target audience as it stands out very well and will attract the target audiences attention towards buying or looking at this magazine.  The colours used on the front cover are very affective, the student is wearing pink and black, and then there is some green text over the black background off her clothes which really stands out and can attract the target audiences attention. The main words for the magazine such as the college name, courses name are all in white colour, this is done for a reason so that they all stand out from all of the other text fonts and colours to show the main purpose of the magazine.

Institution & Ideology:

The people who have designed and created this magazine front cover have designed it to be aimed at college students that are interested in science at there college which is named “Beloit”, this is because they have used the term science and there own college name Beloit which is to make people think of the college and know that they do science there. This affects there final product in a good way, because there is a lot of language used such as camera angles, mise-en-scene and also the way that the student is presented has a great positive affect on the overall magazine front cover to show that it is to do with science at the college.

Audience:

The target audience that this magazines front cover is aimed at is, people who are interested in learning science at a college. This is shown by the college name being written in big standing out text in the mast head, also the word science is shown bigger than any other word on the cover and finally the student working is of different ethnicity which will now link to the following representation.

Representation:

The representation in this magazine is that the magazine front cover is aimed at people like the student used on the page who is a different ethnicity, and also a female gender. Generally scientists are known as white males, but this magazine cover shows that you can be a scientist or study science even if you are a female and Asian ethnicity. This then gives an idea to any other students like the one used that they are also capable of doing the same thing and you don’t have to be a male just to do science.