LIIAR For My Music Magazine

For my Foundation Portfolio – Main task I have to create a new music magazine which consists of: the front page; contents page; and a double paged spread. Through the acronym LIIAR I will be able to look how the media key concepts will apply for the magazine I choose to base my own magazine around.

Language

The language for my magazine will be all the text, pictures and the colours used to support these. For example the text I will use will be straight to the point and will catch the readers eye making them want to read on. The pictures will consist of one big main picture will be the main focus of the front cover, and several other pictures which will be set around the main photo to add more stories. The colours I use will be very attractive and effective on the eye, which will make my magazine avoid becoming boring.

Institution

They’re a few companies behind the publishing of music magazines. For example IPC Media are the publishers of NME (New Musical Express) and they’re one of the United Kingdom’s leading consumer magazine and digital publisher, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year when publishing the magazine they have different people who work on different parts of the magazine such as editor: Connor McNicholas, Publishing director: Paul Cheal, Publisher: Nicola Woods, and Head of marketing: Tim Pearson. Almost two in every three women and over 45% of U.K men read an IPC magazine, this is almost 27 million U.K adults.

Ipc Media - is a leading UK consumer magazine publisher and offers a wide range of different magazines that are suited to almost every reader. These include the very popular music magazine, NME. The NME is a British weekly music magazine featuring latest music news, UK's most comprehensive gig guide, reviews, gigs,tracks and albums and comments from nations most opinionated writes and gives an essential guide to music.

Emap - is the publisher of the kerrang magazine, the UK's premier multi-platform music destination and is the worlds biggest selling weekly rock magazine. The six music magazines in the Emap Performance stable - Sneak, Smash Hits, Kerrang!, Mixmag, Q, Mojo - cover a wide spectrum of tastes and age groups but all stand by a reputation of quality and passion. emap Performance also has a variety of websites supporting the music magazines and radio stations.

Future - This publisher is a trusted editorial service and magazines are just one of the media types they publish, to inform, entertain. Future produces over 4 million magazines each month. In addition, Future exports its publications to 90 countries internationally, making them the UK's number one exporter and licensor of monthly magazines. These include, Classic Rock, the UK’s fastest growing rock music magazine and this publisher is the global market leader in guitar magazines.

Audience

Many music magazines in the music industry have different musical genres for example: indie; rock; metal; and r’n’b. However, my music magazine will be specifically aimed at indie music. A magazine which I will help base mine around will be NME (New Musical Express) their Statistics look like this: 65% Male*, 50% 16-24*, 23% 25-34*and 79% ABC1*. My magazine will be aimed at all those who are interested in music of any era but people whose musical interests are more to the indie side of music.

Representation

The representation of my magazine is going to be of a fairly young audience around 16-24 who are interested in up coming music in the indie genre. The photo’s I use will show people playing the guitar who look comfortable playing showing they enjoy what they do to give a positive message across to the audience.

Evaluation Of College Magazine

In what ways does your Media product use,develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My magazine follows the conventions because it contains features such as the photograph which is edited, the masthead, the headline and sub-headlines , the bad code, and the price.

How does your Media product represent particular social groups?
My magazines particular social group is college students, this is represented through the photograph I took which shows two college students. I wanted to portray the students as happy and comfortable at college and I believe I achieved this as my photo’s show happiness and the will to succeed. The photo I used for my front cover is of two students with big smiles which represents the happiness at being at Wyke College and the other photo I took is of five students all doing work which shows there is also a good side to work where friends can meet and socialise. What kind of

What kind of Media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The institution for my magazine would be Wyke College, as the magazine is aimed for students, parents, and staff who are attached to the college in some way.


Who would be the audience for your Media product?
The audience for my magazine would be the students, parents, and staff who will all have parts in the magazine which are aimed at them.How did you attract/address your audience?
The techniques I used to attract and address my audience was techniques such as how my photograph was taken and what colours were used too back up the photo. I went with a very positive photo and the colours I used were very bright which attracts the audience and gives them a positive feeling. Also the text I used wasn’t too in-depth which allows the readers not to get a lot of the story so this means they have to buy it to read more.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Throughout the making of my magazine I think I have picked up some valuable aspects to help me make further magazines In media studies as I have learnt how to take a high quality photograph and then use Photoshop to edit it and improve it to make it look more professional.

Looking back at the preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
During the progression of my magazine I feel I have learnt valuable technical skills such as using Photoshop to make my photo’s more professional which will help throughout media. Also I believe I have picked up skills in how to structure a magazine which I didn’t know before. My photography skills have also advanced as now I feel positive when taking a photo and believe it looks more professional.