First Draft after rehaul of magazine

This is the Background I will be using for my magazine.

This is the first draft sort of thing I did, decided on a proper name and picture for front cover. (Also included barcode.)

First proper draft, took away large shape at bottom and included some advertisements and things to draw reader in.

Pictures which I will be using or rather Parts out of them

Will likely use parts of this picture due to pose on the right, however the left model doesn't seem like he was ready and thus won't be used.

Shows musical instrument used in band composition/passion of musician

Engaging pose, has character

Appeals to reader, as though he's pointing straight at you

Pictures which I chose not to use (May use in future)

Lacks character due to to sort of subdued look on left models face and posture is incorrect

Guys are smiling, wanted to have mroe of a gritty look, less smiley more moody sort of thing

Mostly taken as a joke picture however does have character, doubtful but might feature in contents page.

Would've used this picture but the left arm and leg are too blurry, also models was not ready for picture to be taken

2nd LIIAR Contents Page Analysis

Language - The langauge used in the Contents page shows off the very varied forms of music which enters the Q magazine's hallways, for example we can see several different types of music on the left side which is the start of the categories of bands such as OASIS, Kings of Leon, Kariser Chiefs and Glasvegas, these are all fairly different bands and thus have different styles which the magazine actually covers and mentions presumably in the articles, however we can also see something on the left which mentions Buskers which are known to perform in the public, we also notice that they have a special on OASIS which are widely regarded as a rather good band, this provides something for members of the public who might not ususally buy the magazine with something to buy it for, we can also note that they provide something called The Q List, which is a list of upcoming stars and is judged by a celebrity/TV Judge.

Institution - The Q magazine is published by the Baeur Media Group, which is a company which operates from Hamburg (Germany) primarily, however works in around 15 other countries worldwide, this allows them to 'play the market' and present things for different people from around the world, they also publish KERRANG.
Ideology - The ideology of this magazine seems to be less of a 'offer free stuff' attitude and more of a attitude in which the content of the magazine is held closer to the ideals of the company, for example on close inspection of the magazine they do not seem to offer free items or anything of the sort at least in the contents page section of the magazine, this allows them to focus more on engaging the reader's interest when they are picking what content to display, for example this can be shown when they advertise the OASIS SPECIAL showing off that they have got OASIS, to have an interview with their magazine, in my opinion from analysing this contents page I've found that they seem to prefer to show off to customers that they have got exclusive interviews and other things of the like, this allows them to draw more readers in and because of this I would say that they have an ideal in which they want to be better than the rest of the magazine industry and offer a more varied amount of material in their product.
Audience - Through research and the fact that the main focus of this contents page is OASIS, I've found that the average reader has a personality of usually being quite open minded is usually of several different ages from around 17+ and they generally do not define music as anything specific, usually caring to listen to many different types of music and will usually not come too far above their love of other things such as film, sport or other types of media.
Representation - The magazine represents the different types of people in it quite cleanly, this is mainly due to the fact that there are two different pictures of fairly different people, one of a band, which seems quite confident and seem as though they have had a lot of success, the other of someone who seems to shy away from the camera by standing slightly behind the large romanesque achitecture/pillar, this shows off two different types of personality and two types of music, a solo artist and the band parts of the music industry and magazine. There is also a feature on the left column of the magazine which while highlights with no pictures does have a solid mention in the magazine, this represents that they havea more old school sort of readership which idolises some more of the badass rock and roll kind of bands, or people who simply want to relive the older days of music.

1st LIIAR Contents Page Analysis

Language - The language on this contents page features main house colours such as Black, Red and White, which are fairly common colours in the music magazine industry, this can make the magazine seem quite simple and easy on the eyes which allows the producer to then add in lots of other visual effects such as pictures/offers, lots of splash images and the like also. We can also see a snippet on the right which lets the audience see what the editor has to say about the magazine and genre as it is today. Straight away in the bottom right the readers are drawn to the offer of 'HAMMER MERCH' highlighted by the use of an attractive female, this also makes the user explore the page more due to the fact that it's in the complete opposite end of the page, thus showing off more of the page add to that visual's included in this contents page and then we have a large sort of colour bomb which draws the reader into different parts of the page showing more of the magazines content, this is helped along by the use of the large white numbers in the corners of the photos which are obviously page numbers which then are also documented on the left side of the page which shows another little caption to the page, letting the user know what is on it and what they can expect to learn.

Insitution - METAL HAMMER is an institution which produces the magazine however the institution which actually handles all of the printing and distribution of the magazine is a company called Future Publishing, from this contents page we can assume it targets people who obviously like the genre of metal and then we can also use this to work out that because of this the page shows off a lot of high profile bands or solo acts to do with metal, due to the point that people who check magazines generally look at the front cover and the contents page to see what is included in the magazine.

Ideology - From this contents page we can work out that the magazine wants to give it's users the best that it can, be this the best acts, the best pictures of live action or simply the best that it can be or do, we can tell this from the amount of pictures which are taken with high quality cameras or in the thick of the action on a stage or near to one, this sort of thing also helps bring in customers to the magazine and increase the fanbase. Due to the ideal of wanting to be the best that we can tell they have, they also have a lot of different stories/interviews as well as the ones which are shown off in the contents page pictures.

Audience - From the look of the bands/people in the pictures on this front cover we can tell that the audience could range from 20's to the early 30's/later 20's we can also deduce that the audience generally have long hair/a large amount of hair/facial hair, this helps us in the fact that people are easier to recognise when they're associated with this type of music. We can also assume that they might dress or rather style themselves in this type of image such as with the makeup or long hair, we can also see that the majority of musicians in the magazines are wearing dark clothes, allowing us to make the connection between fans and their musician idols dress sense.

Representation - The representation side of the contents page is something similar to the audience side of it, in the general opinion of the public the appearence of darker clothes, tattoos and longer hair being something scary and different, this magazine breaks a lot of boundaries in that respect, showing off these things which are one of the reasons that the magazine is labelled alternative/metal oriented, we also see the makeup aspect of some bands, with the large picture in the middle right showing off one of the larger metal bands, KISS, which are notorious for their facepaint/makeup aspect of the music act, what with their appearence on the contents page it also changes it to a more serious metal magazine, especially with the representation of the metal genre throught the clothes/make up and other parts of the genre's dangerous background.