Preliminary Task

Our next task in media studies was a preliminary task. The preliminary task is to produce a front page of a school/college magazine with many photos, some appropriate text and many other key conventions, using DTP and image programming. The first thing we did to get towards this, is look at last years examples of magazines that students did to give us an idea on how to go about doing our own magazine.
One of the magazines we were given was called squash and we had answer many questions about the magazines including how we are able to recognise its a magazine front cover, who we thought the audience was for the magazine and also how the magazine targets the audience effectively.
We are able to recognise its a magazine front cover by how similar it is compared to other magazines which are around today. The many type of key conventions which are on the magazine like the puff, the masthead and the coverlines etc...
For the audience of the magazine, I believed the gender is both male and female, the age is between 16-20. In the jicnar scale i believe for this type of magazine, its between a c1 and a b. The psychographic for the person who did the magazine would probably go under an aspirer or a succeeder as the magazine looks like a student magazine and he has succeeded everything they were asking for in a magazine.
The magazine targets the audience effectively by the bold colours and the font. And by also what is inside the magazine, which the person has shown this by using different key conventions like the screamers and the coverlines etc...