Student Magazine Smaart Talent

Textual Analysis of "smaart talent"

Smaart Talent is the masthead Talent has been written in pink I think this is for one of two reasons either because there is a picture of a male on the cover so the pink helps give it some appeal to females, the other reason would be because there are some slight tones of pink on the newspaper so it helps compliment the picture. The cover lines are very good for enticing the target audience because it’s all stuff students would want to know about, for example the bit where it says advice on courses, careers and universities. The cover photograph is an extreme close up of someone called MC Riz and has been cropped so we can only see some of his face. I think because MC Riz is Asian and is in the film three lions the idea of wrapping newspaper round his head with articles to do with oil it’s meant to be like he’s a terrorist, this helps create a sense of humour. Underneath the photograph we can see a caption which links to the main story inside which is MC Riz, rising star and Renaissance man. The phrase Renaissance man means a “person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas”. Picking someone like MC Riz helps inspire people as he’s almost a role model. Having a smaller more portable magazine means people are more likely to pick it up and read it than if it was a tabloid newspaper.

Student Magazine Questionnaire

What would you like the student magazine to be called?

• College Life
• The View
• Standard Student
• Other suggestions

What would you like the magazine to contain?

Would you like pictures in the magazine?

• Yes
• No

Would you find links in the magazine helpful for your studies?

• Yes
• No

Would you only read this magazine if it was free?

• Yes
• No
• Any comments 

What age group should i target?

• 13-15
• 16-19
• 21+

P.O.A

I have been asked to create a media magazine for media studies AS, i absolutely adore music especially drum and bass, so i'm going to do my magazine on my friend Ricky Nedic who mixes on the decks. Ricky has been mixing for around 8 months now and mixes almost every day without fail, he lives for it and definately loves it. Ricky currently hasn't come up with a succesful name which he likes enough to use and is in the process of trying to find some sets.

Before i start any of this i need to create a student magazine to give me basic ideas on how to create it and the kind of information that people are going to want to read about.

Week 1: 15th November

• Set up blog
• Decide upon my magazine name
• Audience questonaire
• Textual analysis of a magazine

Week 2: 22nd November

• Collect a variety of images
• Edit photographs
• Create a front cover and produce a draft

Week 3: 29th November

• Create the contents and make a draft
• Collect audience feedback

Week 4: 6th December

• Evaluation of my final work