Introduction


Hi my name is Lianne Allwood and I am doing AS level media. I am going to be doing a textual analysis of a college magazine cover, after this I will be doing a college magazine cover of my own. When I was given this assignment we looked at the different conventions in media, such as the mise-en-scene, asymmetrical and symmetrical ect. I also had to look at who I wanted my audience to be, as I was a college magazine I knew it had to appeal to AS and A2 students, I also wanted my college magazine to appeal to all genders. As part of the magazine I had to take a picture to be the front cover, whilst doing this I had to consider who I wanted my magazine to relate to and how they were shown, so I took my picture outside in the natural light as I thought it looked better I also took it at a medium close-up because I wanted to catch some of the body language given off by the people in my pictures and the background of the college. This was the first part of the magazine cover, also for another part of my magazine I had to make sketches of the layout and also research topics to put in my magazine, I will do this by going round the college and seeing what effects people and what people would like to read about.