Research and Planning: College Magazine Analysis

The target audience for this magazine are students who attend college, and young adults who are interested in college life.

Codes and Conventions:

• Masthead
• Cover Lines
• Publication Line
• Issue Number
• High Quality Image
• Barcode/Price

You can clearly tell that this magazine is based around college as the man in the picture is holding books which are used to study while at college; also, the masthead of the magazine reads 'COLLEGE' which gives us a clear impression that it is a college magazine.

The cover stories on the magazine are based on college students' interests, for example: 

'MAKE MONEY ON CAMPUS'. This is clearly used to intrigue college students to read the magazine  so that they can find out how, this also shows that this magazine's target audience is college students. The publication line on this magazine is:

'www.collegelifestylemag.com'

Which is the website for the magazine. The barcode which is placed at the bottom is used when purchasing the magazine and has the price written next to it.