Deconstructions

This is another sixth form magazine that i am deconstructing, i am doing this to help me with my front cover of my 6th form magazine and what i should and shouldn't inclue in my magazine.

Firstly we can see the title which is 6th sense, this is done in big, black bold text. In the background there's a person with a microphone that is also black with bright colours shooting out of it. I personally think is looks very effective as it makes the title stand out even more plus it's eye catching which can sell the magazine on it's own. The title is in the normal place where you can see it because if it wasn't there the readers would be confued and probably not interested in the magazine.

On this front cover there isn't a standing out headline, On my front cover i will want to have a main headline for my front cover however it does make the picture stand out well which works well.

The masthead of this cover is at the top of the page which shows the logo, date and what issue number it is. These are important things to have with in any type of magazine therefore i will be incluing the logo and date into my magazine.

The left third side of the front cover has alot of text and information on this cover, we can see three different types of text here which is good because it shows what we can expect in this magazine. They use the colours, red, blue and yellow. I feel this isn't always a good idea becuase it can affect the background image and colour however they have made it look good because the background colour is white but this can somtimes be bad because the readers eyes uaslly go to colour and white isn't a big bright colour but i do feel they have used it well here.

The central image is a person who goes to the college or school, looking happy and proud to be at this school which gives us the impression that everyone at the school is happy and doing well there. It also helps that the person in this image is looking at the camra which makes it look like he's looking right at you when you pick up the magaine.

Lastly on the bottem right hand side of the cover you can see the buy code. This is where you can mostly see the bar code if theres one on the front cover because this is what they call the thum stop. They say this because you turn the page there so it isn't that imporant for the reader.