Magazine Deconstruction

This is my first piece of work towards the preliminary task. I will be deconstruction a real magazine and a student made magazine. 

The two magazines I have chosen are The Hampton Boys School magazine and a student made magazine called The Griffin. The Hampton magazine has a bright attractive title sideways, making the reader want to see what it says. The photos used show a performance of Les Miserables. There is a main photo at the top, with three other photos scattered around. This gives the readers just a glimpse of what went on on the production. A section of text is underneath it, which maybe is a bit too small and there is a bit too much crammed in. There is a mini contents page just to let the reader know what is going to be in the issue. There is also the school website link and the logo of the school. It gives enough information for the reader to know enough about the school. The target audience is parents of the students but also people who may be looking at sending their child to the school. 

The Griffin on the other hand is a magazine created by a student. From the the start, we can tell that this magazine is poor. Firstly, the font looks cheap and childish, and the black text on the purple banner at the top is very hard to read and uneasy on the eye. The overall size of the font is small, and there are blank spaces on the magazine which could be filled with more information or they could make the font bigger. The “Free” sticker looks cheap, and it is peeling off which makes it look like it has been put on without care and attention. There is a logo of the school at the bottom left hand corner, which represents it but we do not know what school it is actually from. The only image is of a male and female student in smart clothing, but it is a very cheesy photo, and the positions they are in look forced and like they have been modeled. There is nothing else to look at on the cover really; text and an image or two are the two fundamentals.