Draft Magazine Cover

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Language - This double page spread is covered in image, the images are two close ups of two different members of the band, the lead singer is singing and the guitarist is stood on stage playing the guitar. The main image is a medium shot of the lead singer stood on stage in a recent gig. The last image on the page is a medium close up three shot. The whole spread looks busy, but I think that it is meant to look like this to represent the busy lifestyle this band are having at the time due to the fact they were recording an album and on a tour. The article only uses three colours, Black, White and Red, the black and white are mainly in the pictures and the red is in the title the banner at the top and the first letter of the actual body text. This adds more emphasis to the parts of the article that are drawing in the audience. part of the Headline is white and bigger than the rest of the title and this is the three words 'The Best MCR' this alone is part of what the article is about. It can have two meanings, they could be saying that this is the best that mcr have ever been or it could be saying they are everyones favourite mcr, which is slight sarcasm as they are the only MCR. 

Institution - The institution of this magazine is kerrang, which is published by Bauer Media Group, who also publish Q, they publish two different music magazines which are both aimed at different audiences, Kerrang is aimed at an alternative audience, where as Q is aimed at a C2 - B Social Class, who are fans of classic rock music and artists that have been around a while

Ideology - This magazine is promoting a rock and roll lifestyle, but also promoting itself trying to stay on top.

Audience - The audience for this magazine is C2 - E in social class and mainly aimed at alternative audiences and in this specific issue fans of My Chemical Romance, the audience for Kerrang are stereotypically likely to go to gigs and buy music, so Kerrang aims to meet the needs of this audience. Kerrang includes tour dates and album ratings and main features are things such as interviews with big bands like MCR or Paramore.

Representation - This magazine is representing My Chemical Romance who at the time were on tour, and were promoting their album "The Black Parade", the magazine representing MCR would be a good idea because lots and lots of teenagers follow them and this could put the sales of Kerrang Magazine up a lot.

Target Audience

The target audience for my magazine will be aimed at male and females of roughly aged 14 - 24 who are interested in the Genre of alternative music, I am targeting this audience because these are typically the type of people who go to rock concerts and gigs that play this type of music, typically their social class would be C1 - E

LIIAR interpretation of the brief

Language - Camera Angles, Colour Codes, Conventions, layout - "Splash", house style (look of the magazine)

Institution - NME, Kerrang, Q, Metal Hammer, MixMag, Rock Sound, Rolling Stones, Total Guitar, Ray Gun, The Source, Offbeat, MOJO, Magnet, Limelight, Limelight, DJ Magazine,IDJ, Clash, Decibel, Blitz, Alternative Press,

                  

Name Of Publisher	Magazine(s)
Baeur Media Group	Q, Kerrang
IPC	NME
Development Hell	MIXMAG
Future	Classic Rock, Classic Prog, Computer Music, Future Music, Guitarist, Guitar, Techniques, Metal Hammer, Rhythm, Total Guitar, Guitar,Aficionado, Guitar World,  Legends, Revolver,

Ideology - Morals, Values, Message, Enemy of mainstream music,  Synergy Magazines and artists promote eachother, aspirational

Audience -  Age, Gender, Type, Social Class, sex, sexuality

A	Upper
B	Middle
C1	Lower Middle
C2	Higher Lower
D	Lower (working class)
E	Under Class

 Representation – What the magazine is representing and why it represents it

Price/Publication

The price of my magazine will be £3.90 and it will be published monthly, I think that the price is quite reasonable for the age range it is aimed at, although some of the target audience it is aimed at will be on quite a tight budget I think that the amount of features in the magazine will make the magazine worth the money and because it is published monthly it only works out as around £0.90 a week.

LIIAR Interpretatiion of magazine covers

Language - Main Image, masthead, Barcode, Price, Issue Number, Date, Logo, banner sell line, smaller images, Teasers, Main Feature: Headline
Institution - Kerrang, Bauer Publications, bauer music Group
Ideology - Promotes Bring me the Horizon who were promoting their new album Suicide Season and also mentions Travis Barker who was involved in a plane crash at the time of this issue
Audience - Kerrang is mainly aimed at the rock listeners primarily metal but now moving more into the alternative rock and the more pop punk genre's
Representation - Kerrang Represents an alternative audience and a rock star lifestyle

Language - Logo, main image, bannerhead, Barcode, Price, smaller features, Issue Number, Date, the colour scheme used is blue, brown, white and black,

Ideology - This magazine is promoting Amy Winehouse during the time she came out of rehab and then went  on tour

Institution - Wenner Media LLC.
Audience - Rolling Stone Magazine is aimed at teenagers and young adults who like rock and Alternative Music
Representation - This magazine represents a mainstream music audience, and helps to give detail   

Main Task Brief

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

Evaluation

L- Masthead, main image, smaller images, comic Sans MS, Rockwell Extra Bold, Mainly Large Fonts
I - The Institution for this magazine is in this case myself,
I - Morals/values/messages/ - promoting college and education to young adults 
A -The audience is college students and pre college students,
R -My magazine represents college as been a good place and a really mature atmosphere, and it represents college as been the next step in education,


For my magazine cover, I decided to place the mast head in the bottom left of the cover, this was done for two different reasons, the first reasons was because the gap between the top of the image and the top of the person head was not big enough to fit in the logo and because I decided that it would suit it more if I put the price and the barcode along with the date all at the bottom of the page, I think that the end result was a lot better than it would have been if i had of put it all at the top of the screen.  


The Smaller features that I used for the magazine, were all used due to their relevance to whats going on now and things that are available to students. The first feature I put in was the Halloween party details, and I think that this is a good idea as the party is important to students and it has over 500 tickets sold and is what the majority of college students are doing, I also included information about  EMA, NUS and the New York trip next year. my cover also mentions the successful pass rate for the college and details about the success of the official opening of the Oak Building.


As Mentioned above in the LIIAR analysis, the audience for this magazine is students inside of wyke college, this is because it explains events that are going to happen inside the college, and gives details about trips and parties that have been planned by the college, but at the same time it can also be viewed by secondary school students who are planning to come to wyke college in the future, they can read the magazine to find out about the type of things that go on in the college.


The institution of this magazine is of course myself, and the ideas, morals and messages are promoting the college to its target audience and helping them with their study or helping them with their choice of where to study in the future.


The Magazine cover represents college as been the next step in education for young adults planning to stay on in full time education, and from the image and the information on the front makes it out to be the fun and mature place it actually is. The magazine cover shows the library inside the oak building and shows that it is a good working environment for people to work on their studies.

Original Front Cover Draft

Final Front cover and Contents Page

Original Image

This was the original image  I took but I didn't use it because it was too busy even after I editted it into a different style.

Draft Contents Page

My contents draft page just had the magazine title and a coupe of images along with the main text which would explain what was in the magazine.

Liiar interpretation of the breif

Language - Masthead is the Title of the magazine, the camera angle must be a medium closeup
Institution - The institution is the creator of the magazine which will be me
Ideology - Morals/values/messages/ - promoting college and education to young adults
Audience - The audience is who the magazine is aimed at which is this case is teachers and students of wyke college and people thinking about coming to wyke college
Representation - The magazine represents students and teachers of different backgrounds and makes them all equal for education.

LIARR Analysis of Two College magazine Covers

Language - Long Shot, Mast head, Main Cover Line, Main Image,

Institution - Department for Children, Schools and families

Ideology - Makes School look fun and makes lessons at a particular school look a lot better, Questions the length a lesson could be but with a question making it look more appealing.

Audience - Teachers, Secondary school students

Representation - Represents school as been very positive and very user friendly for the students  

Language - Main Image, Medium Close Up, Main  Cover Line,   Price,  date, subtitles and smaller features 
Institution - College Lifestyle Magazine 
Ideology- makes college look like the best option, makes campus' look good, reviews gadgets and generally talks about American College Lifestyles 
Audience- Students at college in America, although based in Jamaica, Students thinking about going to college in America
Representation- Represents College as been the next step and been the best way forward for students 

Language - Masthead, main image, sub image, sub headings, smaller feature, Different sizes and different colored fonts 

Instisution -  Department for Children, Schools and families

Ideology - The Main Feature doesn't give much away about what is going to be in the magazine, mentions new features in the magazine

Audience - Teachers, Secondary school students

Representation - represents school as been fun and entertaining and quite comical

As Media Foundation Portfolio, The Breif

Preliminary exercise:
Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstate the grasp of DTP.

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