Evaulation of my College Magazine

Overall, my college magazine product was fun to make and gave me a greater insight on what to improve, and maybe some things I could change; prehaps a different layout.
The symbol of the greek letter "lambda" was a direct iconic reference to a best selling computer game (which used the same symbol). My magazine was based around the idea of science, and you can see most of the coverlines are associated with science and even the masthead is referencing to the same game I was mentioning (Half-Life).
My college magazine and contents may have only had one picture to work from, but I've learned to take more to add a more interesting feel to it, instead of one boring photograph.
My music magazine directly reflects what I've learned from my experiences making the college magazine. What makes a magazine good and what doesn't work, were especially important.
My conclusion is that although my college magazine did not share many features that my music magazine may have had, it still serves as a direct template to my mistakes and hopefully into making a better magazine for certain audiences.

Textual Analysis

The cover of the magazine I am doing a textual analysis is called Play Music and is quite basic but uses all the colours a normal mag would use. The colour scheme is red, white, black and blue, the basic colours of a normal magazine. The models are a group called "My Chemical Romance", all of which are male

caucasians, look middle class, appear to be hunched over, have a relaxed "chilled" subjective gaze and their clothes appear to be black jackets and basically all black prehaps to symbolize the emo or goth look. There are no props that I can see in the photo. There are strong horizontal lines inbetween the subject's faces and at the centre of the frame is the lead singer and the band name. Your eyes start with the main mast head title and then left to right from the band, the main lead singer and then finally the bands name written in a large, white gothic font.

The shot distance for this cover title is a Medium shot, although you can see their legs but because their faces are leaned forward ot does appear as a medium close up.