Comparison of other student magazines

The first magazine I looked at was ETC: Education/Training/Careers, it is very well presented and the cover is glossy to make it look high quality compared to all the normal paper magazines that look tacky in my own opinion.

• It has many articles on careers like the royal navy, music and computer games developement because students will need information on career options.
• It is well presented, quite high quality. It uses a variety of colours on each page to make the magazine much more well presented and exciting to the reader.
• It also give information about problems the young have these days including alcohol, safe driving skills and laws. There are adverts in the magazine as well as competitions for the readers.
• Front cover and the contents page are both  layed out very well and do not look tacky and overly colourful, everything seems to work and the images make the pages much more interesting to look at. Its perfectly layed out just like any other magazine you would buy from a newsagaents.
• There are contacts and authors displayed in the magazine so you know that the magazne is quite official, i will make sure to do this when created my magazine.

The second magazine i looked at was First Car: Magazine for young drivers, which is a magazine for young motorists.

• It isn't as high quality as the magazine before it but it still has a glossy front cover which makes the mag seem better quality, It has a front cover that seems at little overcrowded and colourful and this causes the magazine to look a little cheap.
• Inside the magazine there is a well layed out contents page which uses a font which links into the theme that the magazine has throughout, It also has pictures that are well layed out with the text so it works well without making the page look to crowded.
• It also contains contacts which makes the magazine seem much more reliable and trustworthy with the information it shows.

For the third magazine I looked at a copy of Smart Talent, which is a magazine for young students searching for careers.

• Firstly, the front cover is glossy making the magazine look more professional.
• Images are used well but the cover uses only eutral boring colours, it works but it could of been made to be much more colourful.
• Interesting fonts are used on the front cover which makes it look more professional and interesting to look at.
• The womans head on the front cover does cover the magazines title and this does aggravate the reader, this could be improved.

These magazines show me how my magazine could look at the end of this media project if I work well and research.