Denotation: A picture of a man on the front of a college magazine, in his mid twenty's representing education.
Connotation: A demonstration of a educational college magazine, the upper half of a man's body showing that he is holding books. A lot of writing on the image, using bright colour schemes for the texts, (yellow, green, white and pink) portraying warm, comforting meanings. He is persumed to be the 'young hip' college student; followed through with a smile concluding he's happy and glad to be furthering his education.
Costume: The man is costumed to be smartly cassual, black modern styled leather jacket, plain white t-shirt showing the reader he's not fussy with appearance as maybe his main interests are in learning, thats more important.
Props: He's wearing a chain with a crucifix attached to it indicating that hes religious however to attract the young people. He's holding law and society books.
NVC: His non-verbal communication is highly laid back as hes standing slanted, even though he's not in a suit and tie standing straight and firmly doesnt make him look like a slob he still looks classy and representable for an educational magazine. Also his pose gives off to the reader that college life isnt so hard.
Lighting: The lighting of this image is dark so its a low-key lighting.
Setting: The setting seems to be in front of a black shady wallpaper as theres nothing included in the background, its just plain and simple, but sometimes simples more.
The title 'College' is the biggest font on the image, the text is in a vibrant, young colour (green). The font used for all of the text seems to be 'trebuchet' bold. The fact that theres such bright colours on such a dark background shows a mixture of feelings to do with maturity (black and white) however, not growing up to fast then on the other hand theres 'fun' (green and pink) but know's how to remain focussed.
The bar code is smartly placed at the front of the magazine to automatically show people that the magazine they're purchasing is accurate, also to specify the product isn't being mistaken for a similar-looking item.
All of the headings are targeted to the youth to relate to them better yet to allow them to relate to the words in the magazine. The headings are cool and captivating to college students, e.g. 'why we love blackberry', that phrase alone automatically draws in the target reader because blackberry's are the new craze of todays generation.
