Preliminary Task - Analysis of Past School/College Magazines

This magazine is for a college, from the artwork, you can gain the impression that this college is very artistic from the use of colours etc, and also that this college may be for religious students, as the building featured looks much like a church and the doves flying around the building shown have a religious connotations of peace and freedom. You can also get the idea that this college is religious from the name of the college featured in the masthead 'Bethlehem College', as Bethlehem also has religious connotations, as well as the church style building and the doves.
The house colours of this magazine cover are mainly yellow, black and pink, but with hints of blue, green and white, there may be many colours used, but the cover is not cluttered, due to just one piece of art and lack of text.
The masthead is shown at the bottom of the page; this allows the artwork to draw the eye, as it is at the top of the page. The masthead is in serif, which gives a more artistic look to the cover, which links with the painted artwork featured on the cover. The masthead is in yellow, which has connotations of hope which also links with the religious theme and stands out on the black background, so it is very visible to see, and stands out. The 'classy' look of this cover suggests that the readers are perhaps more mature and upper class and perhaps even go to this college privately.

This school magazine shows many images of typical school life. You can gain the impression that this school is very involved in activities and sports, and perhaps specialises in this.
The house colours are blue and white, the blue is used as it is the colour of the uniform at this particular school and adds a smart aspect to the cover, and the white is used to break up all of the different colours from the many images used.
The masthead is at the top of the cover in a traditional magazine style, and is the first thing you see, it is in sans serif, which gives a smart, to the point appearance. The magazine has been called 'Contact';  this relates to school as you have contact with many people with your school, your classmates, teachers, the community etc. It is also a very short, to the point, memorable name for the magazine.
No cover lines are used on this school magazine cover as the images are acting as the lure and give an indication to the contents.