The Wave.

The Wave is a magazine for Waterhill School. You can see how the title links with the name of the school, as waves are obviously involved with water. This cover has quite a busy composition with lots of different images. The logo of the school is situated next to the masthead, which has a large, purple font, which is clear and simple. I like how the word 'the' is placed vertically so that the masthead doesn't look too long and it can be fit in with the logo without looking like it's been squashed in. There is one caption at the bottom of the cover that says, "Best GCSE results ever!!” It is placed in an area where there isn't a picture so that it is against a plain background and is easy to see and read. As you can tell from the caption, the magazine is mainly going to focus on the GCSE result information so the images consist of students holding their result papers. The biggest, main image is under the masthead where there are five students with big smiles, holding their results. There are six smaller images underneath, in boxes with a white outline to separate them from each other. The smaller images are also of students holding their results, but they vary with different numbered students in each one. The colour palette has a main colour of purple, which is bright and bold to catch the eye of the public. Grey also seems to be a repeated colour throughout the composition, in the background behind all of the images and captions, and also in the student's clothing. White is also frequently seen through the exam paper, the outlines boxes and the caption "Autumn 2010". In terms of mise-en-scene, it has quite a busy composition with lots of images and bold writing. The cover definitely focuses on the affect of attracting an audience through student images, rather than lots of captions showing the magazines content. The audience would be the students themselves, as they are likely to have been mentioned in the magazine or atleast be included in one of the photos inside. Parents would also be part of the audience so that they can see the school's achievement that their children attend.