Design Research - Image

This part of the research is important as I need to understand what types of images to use in my magazines and what they are of. It has to relate a college or students there. I have looked at a number of college magazines and on average most of them have images (mostly mid shot) of a male or female teenager looking happy in quite smart, casual clothes with either books on their hands to show that they are a student and are happy by the facial expressions shown, as shown in this magazine below I found online.

By looking through different magazines in my research I have realised that i should not use a lot of images on the front cover as they are not needed. It will make the front cover seem overloaded and tacky, a simple mid shot picture with good use of layout and colours make a much more professional front cover.

It is important to use the right amount of images in magazines so it keeps the reader interested (who the magazine is aimed at) but to also not bore them with pictures which is not important or does not suit them.

The different types of shots used are important as they show who or what is in the picture. By looking through different types of images in magazines I feel that a mid close up shot is the best ones to show as they show the main point of the image up closely. Especially if it is a person, in this case it is, as you can see what they look like, and there facial expressions, you can see here the man is smiling and holding books insinuating that he is happy learning.