Analysing a school magazine front cover

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• The feature article photo which takes up the whole front cover is successful in conveying the student is happy and enjoys going to school. This connates to the decoder that the school the student goes to is relaxed and she enjoys her school.
• Furthermore, the colourful fonts portray that the school is not dull and signifies to the decoder that not all schools are dull. The target audience is also clearly indicated between the school years therefore 5-18 although the plug which states "win a free ipod" anchors to the decoder that the magazines target audience is more for teenagers rather than younger children.
• The masthead however doesnt tie in well with the article there is no clear relationship between the masthead and the article therefore I believe that in this article that masthead is  not appropiately used and in addition is also out of place. The masthead also needs to be more bold as the masthead is hard to read with the contrast of the school in the background.