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Student magazines typically use bright colors, informal photographs of popular celebrities, and unconventional fonts to attract younger readers. The magazines aim to seem less formal through their visual design. They also strive to maintain readers' attention through an equal balance of pictures and text. Student publishers are responsible for regularly meeting and producing the contents of their magazine for their school or college.
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Presentation1 studmagmedia1
- 1. GENERIC CONVENTIONS OF A STUDENT MAGAZINE
- 2. COLOUR SCHEMES Student magazines often include a variety of bright, stand out colours to attract the audiences attention and portray the idea that the magazine is not of a typical ‘boring’ and formal format.
- 3. PHOTOGRAPHY The photography within student magazines tends to be of celebrities who are popular within youth, but are posing in some sort of live/ funny/ interesting way. A comical photograph on the front of a student magazine draws the readers in.
- 4. WRITING STYLE AND FONTS The headlining fonts used in a student magazine and on the front cover never tend to be the usual boring times new roman. Street like, graffiti and stand out fonts are used to imply that the magazine is for people of a younger generation.
- 5. OVERALL LOOK
- 6. TEXT/PICTURE RATIO Where there is writing, the amount of pictures is usually around equal in a student magazine, as too much writing may decrease the readers attention.
- 7. PUBLISHER The publishers of a student magazine are always the students within a specific school/ college. There may be an allocated time for them to meet up and produce the contents of their magazine.