We was asked to analyse and annotate the front cover of two university magazines.
The first magazine was the 'QUAD' its comes from the Almuni Community of Queen Mary, a london university judging from the cover it looks as though its going to be very formal and sophisticated. At the top of the cover is the masthead in the top right corner it reads 'QUAD' in black bold writing and beside it on the left is an image of Queen Mary, this could be showing its a strict and powerful magazine. It includes an image of students graduating and members of staff, this gives me the vibe that they thrive off success from students and they see their members of staff as a huge importance to their students success, not only do they include these pictures on the cover but another group photo of students of success however its in the past giving us the idea that the university has history and many successful students. Theres two images left one being a man of some importance holding an award and another thats some sort of arena, the university looks as though its multicultural.
The first magazine was the 'QUAD' its comes from the Almuni Community of Queen Mary, a london university judging from the cover it looks as though its going to be very formal and sophisticated. At the top of the cover is the masthead in the top right corner it reads 'QUAD' in black bold writing and beside it on the left is an image of Queen Mary, this could be showing its a strict and powerful magazine. It includes an image of students graduating and members of staff, this gives me the vibe that they thrive off success from students and they see their members of staff as a huge importance to their students success, not only do they include these pictures on the cover but another group photo of students of success however its in the past giving us the idea that the university has history and many successful students. Theres two images left one being a man of some importance holding an award and another thats some sort of arena, the university looks as though its multicultural.
You can tell its formal because of the layout of the whole cover and they way no pictures are over lapping and its not using any words to persuade a person to join.
Overall I think this magazine is good in the sense of giving the university a good representation of being successful however it may throw people of the idea of joining that university due to the seriousness and impact of success its giving, it may intimidate students into thinking they're not good enough.
The other cover was for 'Newsman' a university in Birmingham, this cover portrays it as a more informal magazine this is due to the front cover being generally quite packed with things that are irrelevant to the university, the reasons for me thinking this is because of judging from looking at it personally I wouldn't know from first glance without reading the text on it that it was made for the purpose of a university, the deeper meaning to this is the image of the hulk, the small school girl and a small child playing some sort of gadget. These are the images that don't link with the theme of it being a university.
As I mentioned before there is text on the cover stating its a university however its not very informative and it doesn't tell you what the university offers, the text used is quite hard to read also because of the way its been put on there at a funny angle.
So overall i don't believe its a good front cover for a university magazine due to it not being not a very informative cover, it doesn't in any form or way portray it as a university that requires success as the main key and it doesn't give justice on it being very professional.
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