LIIAR analysis of the Brief.

Language - My music magazine will need to contain a masthead, sub-titles with appropriate content, advertisements which contain suitable offers to my target audience and a colour scheme which will correspond to the genre of music I am trying to portray. I will also use camera angles such as MCU and possibly Midshots to show the type of clothes and style of people I use in my magazine.

Institution - During the production of the magazine it will be printed on A4 paper, non-slip which would allow the reader to not worry about dropping and accidentally ripping said magazine, an example of this type of paper is the music magazine NME, however I would possibly try to use some sort of a glossy paper to enhance the visual look while it was being sold, since it can't really show off itself while it's on a shelf. The actual magazine would probably be sold for around £1.25 to £1.80, however I'm leaning towards a a slightly balanced price such as £1.45 or £1.55.

Ideology - Ideology refers to the values of the company or the morals/ideals that they wish to follow, the company will try to keep to these standards in order to keep readers happy. For example NME mainly uses rock or alternative bands but also likes to use news to it's advantage.

Audience - Audience refers to the people who the magazine is aimed at, this can relate to age, gender, social class or interests etc... 'decibel" for example would be aimed at people who like loud music this could lead on to show that it has an audience of people who enjoy metal/rock music.

Representation - Representation refers to what the music magazine is trying to put across to the audience, this is mainly portrayed on the front cover of a music magazine, if for example, Julian Casablanca was on the front cover of a magazine, we know that the particular issue of the magazine will be aimed at people who enjoy rock music and are interested in him and/or The Strokes, the front cover usually represents what will be on the double page or contents page inside of the magazine.

The Brief - Music Magazine

Main Task - The front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.

Final Image

Drafts

Contents page draft

Analysing College Magazine Covers

This college magazine features a Masthead which is located in the top left, as well as a college student who looks to be a popular student, due to her name being mentioned in one of the sub-headings, 'Nastia' the way she looks portrays her to be a hardworking student, with a love for the college she is at, this is shown by the i<3smu shirt she is wearing, the shirt's colour is also the same as the title, to show that this is linked to the college. The barcode is placed in the bottom right along with the price '100% FREE' this is more than likely to encourage college students to read the magazine and learn about events around the college. Also the background of the photo is blurred out to focus attention on Nastia, however the background is more than likely a picture of the campus which looks appealing to any prospective students who might pick up the magazine to help decide their college future. Also the sub-heading of 'He better hope they serve beer in hell' could relate to the fact that college students are seen to be at times, rebellious, unruly, drunken and bad people, especially if they have a different image to other people in the town/city they're local to, however because Nastia is in denim shorts and a t-shirt it would attract male attention. The magazines colour scheme features red, blue and black so it's not overly complicated and simple for people to understand however it does have a variety of different text styles, with bold making up the sub-headings and italics included for the title of a television show.

  This magazine cover has a Masthead at the top of the cover which stretches across to show it clearly, this magazine also has the price and barcode in the bottom left instead of the bottom right like the other had, the main image of this cover is of a male student who has a book which is titles 'Law and Society' this is to show that the students at this particular college are educated in higher subjects than other colleges. The cover also has an advertisement for paintballing in the form of a pink splat, this draws the readers attention away from the otherwise uniform yellow, black and white colour scheme, due to the smart and organised nature of this magazine cover along with the 'Law and Society' textbook it shows that they might be trying to attract a distinct calibur of student that is suitable for higher learning. As well as this, the 'Make money on campus' section could show that they want to show that their students want to achieve and succeed in the way that they specialise in, this goes along with the higher calibur of student, due to the fact that people who know what they want will usually do what they need to in order to achieve it.