Analysing Magazines:2- Secondary

Secondary teachers magazine is a magazine dedicated to an informative approach towards teaching and learning alike, using facts and figures to support its points. The magazine has many advantages that encourage people to buy and read its content.

Tho choice of colour is effective as the white background makes the students stand out. White symbolises cleanliness and purity, as well as blankness. This suggests that nothing else is there, just the student raising his hand or holding a pencil. The uniform colour is also effective, the red is more appropriate to place on a white background than if they were wearing a white shirt without a jumper, for example. The minimal amount of colours used on this front page makes the whole piece stand out. On the front page, the page with the male student, the text is mainly blue whereas the back page with the female student has mainly pink text. This is to illustrate social/ideological differences from and the male female students. Pink is usually associated with females and suggests femininity which most teenage/college student age girls aspire to, similarly blue is a more socially excepted colour to be associated with male.

Institution

The front page shows a black student raising his hand, presumably in a lesson as he is wearing a school uniform. The fact that he is black suggests that Wyke is a multicultural college, encouraging a sense of social acceptance for everyone. He is raising his hand, this shows the college institutions idealistic belief that students should actively be enthusiastic towards learning. His facial expressions suggest enthusiasm, happiness and eagerness towards lessons. This contradicts the ideology which is usually portrayed in the media that teenagers of college age are rebellious, outruly and unconcerned with their education.

The girl is looking to her left, away from the readers eye, as though we are watching her chatting with friends. This creates a personal feel for the text and encourages the social ideology. She is also dressed in school uniform and reinforces the ideologies enforces by the educational system.

The question on the front cover "Do boys and girls learn differently?" is effective as it grips the reader and informs them that the question to this will be answered inside. The use of language is important as it sums up the piece of the text, determines whether a reader will read on and can be used to show ideologies and opinions. The use of a rhetorical question causes the reader to think about the question, however does not have to answer it.

The white background suggests blankness, like a clean page, suggesting that fresh starts are available at the college.