How I would like my post to be presented online!

As my magazine is similar to the one of Kerrang, I believe my magazine should be shown online. I want my magazine also to be shown in a similar way to Kerrang as their magazine is presented effectively. Below displays how I would like to put my magazine online. The format is nicely presented, it looks professional and I believe it is the right way to putting a magazine online.

This is what my home page would look like, i would change some basic things on the website and ensure it is closely related with my paper magazine.



Audience feedback

When getting audience feedback, i showed my front cover, double page spread and contents page to a total of 20 people, ten males and ten females. I asked them a series of questions on the magazine, the results are showed below.

Evaluation

In order to produce my AS Foundation Portfolio, I chose the print brief. To fulfil this task I started by examining existing media texts of a similar form.

1.       In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms conventions of real media products?

Most mastheads are situated to the top left hand side of the page, this is similar to my masthead and the one of Kerrang as they are both situated to the top of the page. Mastheads tend to be short catchy memorable names; this is also similar to my masthead (MI) and the masthead of ‘Kerrang’ as they are also catchy and memorable. The masthead is the biggest piece of text on the page, standing out the audience ensures and encourages people buy your product, as if your masthead is effective it can persuade people to buy the product. Both my magazine and Kerrang use a range of different sell lines, which grab the audience attention. The cover lines on my front cover are situated underneath the masthead, were as they sell lines on Kerrang are at the bottom of the page. I decided to do this differently. I titled my cover lines using plus, which is similar to Kerrang as I believe this grabs the audience attention. The barcode, issue, date and price tend to be located at the bottom right hand corner of the front cover; these tend to be all together so they don’t take up much space on the page whilst also maintaining a professional look. The skyline, which is located at the top of the page above the masthead, usually features some of the main bands that are seen in the magazine. Skylines are not essential; however they make the magazine look more professional as well as maintaining a fresh look to the magazine. Skylines are reasonably effective, as they attract and engage the reader. The anchorage is similar to the one in Kerrang, these display the artists name, the text is big and bold ensuring that it stands out and expresses what the band/artist are like. The name on Kerrang of ‘you me at Six’, is slightly tilted this links to the quirkiness of the band, whilst portraying the genre which is alternative rock. The main sell line, used to sell ‘black owl’ to the public and audience is also similar to the one that is seen on the front cover of Kerrang, as there is a sentence either way. The teasing contents are situated in the splash; my splash is in the form of a circle and is different to the rest of the conventions on the screen, this is not similar to Kerrang as Kerrang lists there teasing contents. I decided to do this differently, as I believed this would look better and stands out more, whilst also expressing the genre of the magazine. The colour scheme is highly conventional and is used throughout the magazine, this ensures that the house style is consistent as well as the genre. The colours link in with the genre of the magazine which is rock, the colours black and red are symbolic, as they relate to the mystery of rock.

The title of the page is situated at the top right hand corner; this is particularly conventional of a magazine contents page and this is similar to the contents page of Kerrang. The issue and date of the contents page is also with the title of the contents page, this is also conventional of a magazine contents page. There are two main images on the contents page, the effectiveness of this is that it is also similar to the one in kerrang as this has also got a couple of images on the contents page. This is particularly conventional of a music magazine as the contents page usually displays several images, which link to article that, are featured in the magazine. This is highly effective when creating a successful contents page as it relates to the target audience, and feeds the needs of the audience as it relates to the genre of the magazine. The features section is on the bottom half of the page, this is similar to the one on Kerrang, and this is a conventional feature of a contents page and is reasonably effective as it displays all of the top articles in a magazine. This is needed to make an effective contents page, as it clearly and effectively attract the audience into reading and purchasing the product. There is also a news section on my contents page, and the one of Kerrang this is effective as it is conventional of a contents page, these are seen on many contents pages and are used purposely to engage the reader. The same house style is continuously used throughout my front cover and contents page the reason why I decided to use this is that it continues and adopts the overall genre of the magazine which is rock. This is successful when trying to create an efficient magazine, as it continues with the conventions that are typically seen on a magazine. One of the main features on my contents page is the reviews section, I decided to split these down into two separate sections on the contents page, album reviews and live review. Ensuring that the audience get all the latest feedback on recent events and new albums. To ensure that the audience know where to find particular articles and reviews or news, I used numbers to label what pages the articles on and where they can find them. I decided not to add an editor’s letter, this is because it is not very appealing to the audience and they will take very little interest in it. Also I believe using one would take up to much space, meaning that I will have to add very little contents on the features section. This would be inefficient as I wanted to display a lot of article, so the buyer is getting their money’s worth. This is different to Kerrang, as they tend to use an editor’s letter on their contents page, this is the only thing different to my contents page.

There are a lot of conventional feature on the double page spread and throughout the magazine, first of all the main image of my double page spread, displays the singer in medium close up. The colour of the picture is in black and white; however certain features of the singer’s clothes are highlighted in red. This is effective as it strongly creates the stereotypical rock star as plug, and dark clothing link to the stereotypical rock star. This is similar to the main image that is seen on kerrang, this image features the main singer in medium close up performing. However the difference is that there are several smaller images around the main image of the article, of the other band mates. The main large headline is at the top of the right page under the name of the artist, this is the biggest piece of text on the page as it is to ensure that it stands out to the audience. Usually these tend to go across the two pages; this is different on mine as I didn’t want the text to cover the two pages. This is seen on the double page spread of Kerrang, as this is the biggest piece of text on the page as it nearly covers the top of both the pages. The introductory paragraph is the most important piece of the article; this is the most persuasive part of the article which engages the reader to read further. This is similar to the one of Kerrang, the text is clear precise and is very effective when introducing the article, and introductions are used at the beginning of an article to give the audience a taste of what the article is about. This is one of the most important conventions, which are consistently used throughout Kerrang. Photo credits are also usually seen on the contents page, these are usually situated with the main image on the double page spread. This is seen on my double page spread, as the photo credits are placed with the picture on the page, I did this because i wanted my double page spread to maintain all of the main convention that are seen on an ordinary double page spread. This is not similar to the double page spread of Kerrang, as I can’t particularly see any photo credits on the page. The byline tends to be situated under the main article; this is typical of the conventions and is clearly used on my article. However I cannot tell this on the double page spread of Kerrang as I am unable to make out if there is one or not. The drop cap, is used on all forms of article, this is a very effective convention as it stands out and is very appealing doing this a different colour makes it a little more appealing. Finally the pull quote is situated in the middle of the article. The pull quote is a quote from the artist who is featured in the article, this piece of text is usual big bold and tends to be in italics to sure it stands out to the rest of the text.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Social groups are highly important when trying to achieve a successful media product, to do so there are several factors that need to be considered when doing so. These are:

·         Stereotypes

·         Generic types

·         Age groups

·         Socio economic group

My magazine is highly conventional, meaning that stereotypes are expressed using original conventions that are usually seen in music magazine. In my magazine, there is a clear sense of the genre rock; this is seen in the main image as this displays the main artist on my magazine smashing through a wall. This clearly expresses the genre of rock using denotation, meaning that this is the typical behaviour that would be expected from a rock star, as they are seen as rebellious. The colour scheme is a great use of connotation, as black, and red are seen as aggressive colours meaning danger. Rock stars are seen as rebellious people, meaning that they don’t care about danger. The colours link with the artist, as this is what we stereotypically expect the artists to be like. These colours are also related to the genre of the magazine, as we associate rock music as dark and dismal. This colour scheme is consistent throughout the magazine, to ensure that the genre is used throughout means that this will relate to the audience. The generic type of my magazine is based solely on the genre of the magazine; people tend to relate rock to men as women are stereotypically not seen to like rock music. Due to this I decided that my media product should relate to both men and women because similar media products such as Kerrang are only based on men. This is effective and will relate to the women as well as men, as there are particular bands and artists that are featured in my magazine which will ensure that the magazine will relate to both generic types. The age you base your media product on, is widely expressed contributory factor as if the contents is not to date with the age of your target audience your media product will not be as successful. Originally my media product was based on the ages of 15 and above, however this has changed since my research. I decided that a more appropriate age would be over the age of 18, as some of the contents in the magazine may be seen offensive to certain types of people. Particularly if the magazine was based on a younger age then the parents of the children, may find it unreasonable because some of the contents may be seen as vulgar. When relating to a younger audience it is important that the contents is up to date, meaning you should continuously change the bands in the magazine, as well as keeping up to date with new bands and upcoming tours and events. I decided that my magazine should not be aimed at someone over the age of 40 as people over this age will find it hard to relate to the magazine. This is because ‘sex.drugs and rock and roll’ is necessarily seen and related to the youth of today as we wouldn’t stereotypically expect this of a more mature person. In concerns to socio economic groups, I believe that the magazine would come under the group D, which is semi-skilled people, as you do not need a high education or a lot of money to read my media product as I wanted everyone to have the chance to read it.

3.  What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The way you distribute your product, is highly effective when determining a successful media product. When planning my media product, I decided to use an independent publication however this has changed when creating my media product. I have now decided that this was not the right place of publication, and I believe that the product should be published by one of the major publishing companies in the world. As this is a much more effective place of publication, as it has a lot of experience when publishing rock magazines. Like kerrang, who is also published by Bauer Media I decided to use them to publish my media product. My unique selling point is that my magazine is based on all aspects of rock, whereas Kerrang is based on a more specialised genre of heavy metal. This is effective, as Bauer media would not produce similar magazines that will compete with one another.  Bauer media also publish similar magazines such as Mojo, Empire and Q these are listed under the male section. This is particularly effective as my magazine will therefore  stands out from the rest of the magazines, because my magazine is aimed at both women and men as well as having a overall genre of rock it means that this will not compete with the other magazines. I decided not to base my magazine on IPC media, as the magazine NME is also published by NME and is similar to mine.

4. Who would be the audience for your product?

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5. How did you attract address your audience?

Using demographics and psychographics I used a variety, of different features to attract the audience into purchasing the product. Because my socio-economic group is D, there are particular things that will be important to these groups. Psychographics is the system for measuring the consumer’s beliefs, opinions and interests. This is seen in my media product as I address the audience using their opinions and interests. First of all the image will relate to the audience, as the image displays an artist in straight up medium close up, this shows the audience that they are on the same level as the artist. Due to the gender issue, there are bands in the magazine which will attract both sexes. The band oasis, links to both men and women this is effective as it will attract the audience into purchasing the product. I try and attract the attended age range, by ensuring that the bands that are featured in the magazine are up to date and new. This keeps the younger audience interested in the magazine, as younger people tend to change their mind often. The artist on the front page is also young and fresh faced, meaning that this will attract the target audience. The anchorage will also attract and address the audience; this is because young adults will find it easy to relate to 'sex, drugs and rock and roll'. Is stereotypically related to the youth of today, meaning that this would not look address an older audience. The colours black, white and red create the genre of rock, this addresses the audience as these are fans of the genre of rock. Stereotypically many rock fans dress in dark dismal colours, and were tight clothes; this is seen in the main image which shows that the audience are similar to the artist. These fill the Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs; this is when we need to fulfil an area in order to move on. The social part is seen in my magazine, as the magazine directly addresses the audience, meaning that the audience feel that they are part of a specific group, the group in which my magazine represents is rock/music fans. In regards to Value Life styles, the category in which my audience falls under is the groups that are driven by needs. Both of these are completely expressed in my magazine, i use a variety of different conventions that make the audience feel like they are part of a group. These are the main image, anchorage, cover lines and colour scheme.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing his product?

As you can see from the image on the right, my magazine has developed greatly. I have learnt to use a variety of different technologies when constructing my product. Firstly using Photoshop, I learnt how to use the quick selection tool to when editing my main image. Using this I cut half of the background out leaving jagged edges to create the effect of the artist smashing through a well, when trying to create the genre rock. I also used the transform scale tool, to make my main image smaller to ensure that the image actually fitted on the page. The transform tool, came in handy when I was adjusting all of my images and I consistently used it throughout. Another use was editing all of the text on the page, as it made it easier to rotate, resize and even move the images. This is something that I didn’t know when completing my preliminary task, however if I knew this previously it would have made my magazine more efficient. Another technology that I have learnt when creating my music magazine is the spot healing tool, I noticed that on my main image the artist had some blemishes on his face. In order to get rid of the spots on the artists face, I used the spot healing brush, this made his face look clear and fresh faced. I didn’t know this when producing my college magazine front cover; luckily the model had no spots or anything wrong with his skin. I have learnt to make the text stand out and more efficient, I used the effects drop shadow, inner shadow, outer glow, inner glow, bevel and emboss, colour overlay, gradient overlay, pattern overlay, satin and stroke.

7.  Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Since completing my college magazine to producing my music magazine, I believe that I have learnt a lot about how to produce a successful magazine. Firstly I didn’t know how to correctly identify and use all of the conventions that make up a successful media product. As you can see I now know how to correctly identify them, as well as applying them to the magazine to ensure that the magazine is relatable and addresses the audience. When I began to create my college magazine, I didn’t know how to use Photoshop properly. You are able to see this as the college magazine displays no effects and is very basic and reasonably dull, however this may be typical of a college magazine as it is not particularly for entertainment bases. This is different to my music magazine, as the magazine has numerous amounts of effects which make it consistently more appealing to the audience. All of the text on the college magazine is basic and dull; this is completely different to the text that is seen on the magazine front cover as I have used effects that bolden the text to make it stand out more. I have also used a drop shadow which strengthens the text, and make the text look more appealing. The headlines on the college magazine are not as catchy as the ones on my music magazine front cover, using appealing headlines ensure the effectiveness of the magazine. My music magazine is much more effective then my college magazine. The two pieces of work are so different because the college magazine, does not look as professional as the music magazine. I did not use as many conventions in the college magazine, then what is seen on the music magazine, this means that the magazine looks less professional and will not be as relatively popular as the Music magazine. Another big difference is the images that are seen on both the magazine, the main image on the college magazine does not feature any sort of relevance to the magazine however he is the main featured article. There is also no clear genre of the college magazine, also showing that it is not completely professional, Whereas the music magazine, displays a clear genre of rock which is portrayed using the image. As the image is a clearly stereotypical representation of the genre, whilst also addressing the audience of the magazine. Overall, the clear difference is that the college magazine is not to the standards of a professional magazine, it lacks in the conventions of a magazine and does not portray a clear sense of genre. This is different in concerns to the Music Magazine, as all the different conventions are used and there is a precise genre of rock. Thus meaning that the Music Magazine, looks more professional then the college magazine showing that i have effectively learnt to use photoshop currectly since making the college magazine.

Final Front Cover, contents page and double page spread.

I want to use this as my final front cover, as I believe it is the most effective when addressing the audience and reflecting the genre. On this front cover, I have used all of the different conventions to the best of my ability.

I wanted to use this contents page as my final product, as I believe it is effective when looking like a professional contents page as well as being highly conventional.

I wanted to use this double page spread as my final product as I believe that it looks like a professional double page spread, as well as also being highly conventional.

Original images

I decided to use this image as my main image on my front page, I liked the background and the image of the artist. However the colours were to bright and didnt relate to the genre of the magazine. However i used photoshop and cut around the outside of the image, also leaving some of the background in. This created a rockstar image, i also changed the colour and contrast of the image to black and white creating the house style whilst also creating the rock star image.

I decided to use this image on my double page spread, as i believe it is effective of portraying what the article is about. I believe it is also effective when creating the genre of his music which is Rock. As stereotypically only people who listen to rock, were dark clothes and have plug in their ear. This image also helps to continue the House-Style of the magazine which is Black, White and Red.

On photoshop i cropped this image in half, and made the top half a little bit smaller. This image is very appealing and would draw the reader in, this is why i decided to use this image as my main image on my contents page.

I decided not to use this image, because it didnt fit my genre and it is similar to the image that i used on my front cover.

I really liked this image, this is why i decided to use it for one of my featuring articles on my contents page. As i thought it gives the contents page more of a professional feel, whilst also making it appeal to the audience.

Although I really like this image, i decided not to use it as my main image on my front cover as it was not the best image that i could have used for my front cover.

contents page draft

Double page spread draft

Front cover drafts

First draft

I decided not to use this draft as my front cover, because, the skyline is way to big, the masthead isnt very effective and the cover line is also not effective. Meaning that the magazine does not look relatively professional.

Second draft

This draft is not much different from the first draft, it also does not look completely professional meaning that it would not appeal to the audience.

Third draft

This draft, is reasonably professional as it looks more like a music magazine then the other two drafts. This would appeal more to the audience as it has more coverlines.

Final Draft

Finally this draft, lools more appealing and professional. This would appeal more to the audience as the masthead stand out, whilst the anchorage and the coverlines are catchy and truthful meaning that more people will want to buy the product.

mock ups

Front cover mock ups

This is my digital mock up of my front cover, this is what i want my front cover to look like. As i think it is very appealing and will attract the audience.

Mock ups of double page spread

Mock up of contents page

initial ideas

Initial Ideas on Prezi

Genre of Magazine

Music magazine genre type on Prezi

Price

Due to the large content of the magazine, the price of the magazine will be a little bit higher then usual magazines. However because the content is so large, the buyer will get the value for the money and will want to buy the magazine. The magazine will be made in a monthly issue, and will be split up into three different sections, to seperate all of the different topics. Overall the price of the magazine, will be benefical and will safe the audience money when buying seperate magazines every week.

Target Audience

To produce an effective magazine that will appeal to the audience, i decided to base my magazine on a wide range audience and not a neiche audience. However i wanted to keep intact a genre that would be seen throughout, the genre of the magazine is rock. Although i decided to base it on rock, i wanted to appeal to all aspects of rock, as i believe they all link in with each other, meaning it will appeal to a wider audience. I also wanted to feature some other genres on the contents page, as i believe that this would attract more people to the magazine as the magazine would not be seen as biased. I do not wish to base my magazine on a certain age group, due to some of the content in the magazine and the sophistication I am trying to base my magazine above the age of 15. Doing so more people would be able to relate to the magazine, therefore creating a wider audience by persuading more people into buying the product.

L.I.I.A.R Analysis of Kerrang

Front Cover

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The front cover of this magazine, is amazingly put together. Firstly kerrangs masthead which is situated to the top of the magazine, is highly symbolic. The capital letters, symbolises the genre of the music which is Rock, which includes all type of rock, such as heavy metal. The fact that the logo looks like it has a smash effect, shows us that the people in the magazine rock hard, as the music is so loud that the windows and glass smash. This is very effective when appealing to the audience as people will associate themselves, with the loud distinctive the rock.The main image on this magazine, displays one of the biggest rock bands up to date "You me at six", the picture displays the five men in medium close up showing each of their facial specials. The main singer, Josh is closer to the front then the other four band members, this shows that he is the main protagonist in the band as he is also doing a different facial expression to the rest of the band members. This is very effective as most people who are fans of "you me at six" tend to like Josh more then the rest off the band. This would therefore attract more people into buying the product, especially fans of you me at six and fans of Josh. The Anchorage, "rocks new hotshots, doing it their way" is effective when selling a band and the magazine, as it positively persuades people into reading the article and wonder why "you me at six" are so hot. This helps to create the genre, and links in with the masthead, that Kerrang is based aroung rock bands as "you me at six" are one off the biggest names in rock. Therefore encouraging the reader into buying the product, meaning that kerrang is associate with a wider range audience by persuading more people to read the magazine. There are thumbnails of other important articles, which feature in the magazine, however they also relate to the theme of the magazine which is Rock. The thumbnail used as a splash and also teasing contents is displayed on this front cover, which displays bands but have their posters inside to encourage people to buy the product as they will get free posters. The colour scheme that is seen, in this issue of kerrang magazine, is red, black, white, yellow and green. The boys from you me at six are all wearing black or dark colours, this relates to the genre of their music and also to the genre of the magazine which is Rock. the significance of this is that the magazine will seem more appealing to the audience, as the colour scheme all links in with the genre.The price, is situated on the barcode along with the date and issue of the magazine. The barcode is big, which ensures people to know how much the magazine costs. Teasing contents which is situated at the top of the front cover, this is used to persuade the audience into buying the magazine. It also gives the audience an insight to the type of articles that are featured in the magazine, without having to turn the page over and look on the contents page.

Institution:


The institution for this magazine is the producers of Kerrang magazine, the general genre that is continously used for this magazine is Rock. This is to ensure that the attended target audience (neiche audience), will continously keep an interest in the magazine, as it will feature all of their favourite bands. Kerrang tends to use well-known rock bands, in order to keep their audience, this is effective as it ensures that they will maintain an audience in which the magazine will suit.

Ideology:

The ideology of the magazine is music. The ideology also varies like as when the magazine is displaying all the different bands the ideology changes due to the style of the band. The ideology for this particular magazine is rock. The ideology of using "You me at six" on the front cover brings a stereotypical rock band to the magazine.

Audience:

The audience for this magazine is an nieche audience, this means that the magazine is specialised to fit their particular audience.. For this edition the audience is for people who endure rock bands, alternative rock and people who are fans of the well-known band "You Me at Six". There is no set gender for this magazine, the magazine is based on both sexes and will appeal to both female and male. In my opinion I think that using a mixed audience is very effective as the magazine will only appeal to the specific target audience.

Representation:

The representation for this magazine is a positive one as well as having a stereotypical feel. The exciting view that is seen in this magazine is Hot shot rock band! Hunky rock stars create a huge amount of excitement, as well as people talking about the article and the magazine causing more people to buy the product.





contents page


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To begin with the title is situated at the top right hand side of the page, alongside is the date and issue of the magazine. The title is in a clear, bright flamboyant colour, this is effective as it imediately stands out to the reader, and will help to ensure that the reader is immediately engaged. A continous colour scheme of yellow, black and white are used throughout Kerrang, the significance of this, is that it maintains a continous house style, to which the audience can relate to. The colour scheme, creates the genre of the magazine, as black is particulary related to Rock, whilst the colours and white and yellow relate to innocence, creating humor as the artists are no where near innocent. This therefore links to the band, as they are a rock widely associated rock band who relate to the youth of today.The main picture, displays the artist that is featuring in the magazine, the picture of the artist is in a medium close up, to displays the his facial is also not wearing a top showing of his tattoos and is also swearing at the Camera. We tend to associate behaviour like this with rock artists, meaning that this would effectively appeal to the audience. Also we tend to associate tattoos as a rock thing, this helps to endure the genre of the magazine, and also maintains his rock star image. Quotes from other articles, are situated at the bottom of the title, this gives the reader an insight to what other articles are about. The features section tends to be displayed to the right hand side of the page, the features section displays a range of information which helps to organise what articles features where. This helps to keep a professional and orderly fashion to the magazine, which maintains an upper-class audience as well as a more immature audience. Page numbers are highly important as they link in with the previous point of maintaining an orderly and professional manner,as well as helping the audience to indicate what pages each article are on.



Double Page Spread

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The main image displays the singer from the talented band 'My Chemical Romance', the picture is displayed in medium close up and it shows the band singing performing. There are smaller images around the main image and the article, to display what the article is about, this links in with the introduction to the article "MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE INVITE KERRANG TO THEIR RECORDING STUDIO...".The use of ellipsis makes the reader want to read on, to find out more about what happened at their recording stufio. This is to address what audience of the band is by informing the audience what went on in their recording studio. The great effect of this is that this envolves the fans of my chemical romance, into the whole recording process of my chemical romances new album. This means that more people will want to buy the magazine, as they will want to be involved within the process.  The page title, is shown at the top left hand corner of the page, this is used to indicate what the page contains. The name of the artists, is in a large clear font, which is placed with the introduction, however you immediately see the name of the band as its in white which stands out on the black background. This stands out to the audience as its quirky and exciting to the audience and is not boring which the audience can relate to.The article itself is writen in two neatly formed columns and is writen in a small clear font, to make it easier for the audience to read. The double page spreads, contains extra information columns, such as contact details, to get in touch with the editort. Like many double page spreads, there is a continuous colour scheme used over the two pages which are white, black and red like many magazine double page spreads.These colours are professional, as well as clear, using them on text will only make it easier to read the text.

L.I.I.A.R of Q Magazine

Front page

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The front cover is the most important part of a magazine, its is what attracts the audience into buying the product. Q magazine is a monthly issue magazine and usually comes with a range of promotional products inside, and is aimed at an older audience as most of the material inside is quite explicit. The masthead of Q magazine, is places to the top left hand side of the magazine, the masthead is usually short, to ensure that the audience memorise the name of the magazine. The main image displays the lead singer of the well-known bands "Muse", smasking his guitar against the masthead. This creates the genre of the magazine, which is rock, smashing the guitar against the masthead creates the rock star image, which appeals to a particular reader. Although Q doesnt have a fixed genre, it tends to have a monthly theme, as you can tell by the genre of the band the theme of the magazine is Rock. This also links in with the anchorage, "Matt Bellamy is out of control" which is situated below the name of the band. There are thumbnails of other important articles, which feature in the magazine, however they also relate to the theme of the magazine which is Rock. The thumbnail on this front cover displays the band, "The Beatles" the biggest well known bands of the 60's this will intrigue the fans of "The Beatles". Because the Beatles, is an older band, an older more mature audience will be able to relate to the article. The slogan is situated at the top of the magazine, it has to be catchy and slow to create ensure that the audience keep buying the magazine. The house style that is seen, in many issues of Q magazine, is used in this issue. The clothes that Matt Bellamy is wearing links in with the magazine, as the colour are the same, he also seems to be wearing black eye liner which creates a sense of gothic rock. The colour red tends to connotate anger, the fact that Q are trying to create a rockstar thats gone out of control effectively links in with the continous house style. The price, is situated on the barcode. The barcode is big, which ensures people to know how much the magazine costs. Teasing contents which is situated at the right hand side of the page, is used to persuade the audience into buying the magazine. It also gives the audience an insight to the type of articles that are featured in the magazine, without having to turn the page over and look on the contents page.

Institution:

The institution for this magazine is the producers of Q magazine, the genre of this magazine is a controversial one, it has no set genre and varies over the months. For this issue of Q magazine the genre is rock, whilst next months genre could change  to pop. Having a music variety doesn’t also distinguish what Q stands for; it also helps a variety of different target audience as the magazine doesn’t have just one genre. Distributing a magazine is reasonably easy and it’s an effective way of selling bands to the audience. Q tends to put well known bands or music producers who are liked by a variety of people, this is very effective as more people will want to buy the product because they may want to know interesting facts about bands and producers like Simon Cowell.

Ideology:

The ideology of the magazine is music and business. The ideology also varies like the genre as when the magazine is displaying all the different bands the ideology changes due to the style of the band. The ideology for this particular edition of the Q magazine is rock. The ideology of using Muse on the front cover brings a stereotypical rock band to the magazine, as Muse is all about Rock the fact that the article features a rebel side to Matt, this may encourage more people to become Fans of Muse.

Audience:

Like ideology the audience for this magazine varies greatly, the audience tends to be based on the genre of the magazine. For this edition the Audience may be rock bands, alternative rock and people who are fans of the well-known band Muse. There is no set gender for this magazine, the magazine is based on both sexes and will appeal to both female and male. In my opinion I think that using a mixed audience is very effective as the magazine will not appeal to one group but will attract nearly everyone.

Representation:

The representation for this magazine is a positive one as well as having a stereotypical feel. The exciting view that is seen in this magazine is Rock star gone bad. A rebelious rock star creates a huge amount of excitement, as well as people talking about the article and the magazine causing more people to buy the product. The stereotypical side of this magazine is that of a Rock bands, people who are usually rebellious and tend to be outragiously exciting the anchorage "Matt Bellamy is out of control" supports this hypothesis. The genre of the magazine represents all of the audience, the genre is a controversial one. The reason why this represents the audience is due to the fast amount of different people who buy the product making the magazine more and more successful.

Contents Page

Language:

The main image on this contents page displays the main band that is going to be featured in this particular issue of Q magazine. The picture of the band is in a low angle long shot, so you are able to determine what they are wearing. The clothes the men are wearing links with the genre of Rock, as they are wearing dark and not so stylish clothes. Because the picture is in low angle, you are able to determine that they are the ones in control, as the they are the main protagonists in this magazine. The page title is situated at the top of the page, alongside the logo of Q magazine. This is also alongside the date and the issue of the magazine, which ensures the reader that the magazine is not out of date, therefore all the information inside is reliable. The title is in block capitals, and is the biggest piece of text on the page, therefore standing out to the audience in a prominant way. this helps to enhance the excitement of the articles that are featured in the magazine, by ensuring the reader that the magazine and the context inside is exciting. The quotation that is under the name of the artists gives the audience an insight to what the article is about. Thus meaning that the audience may be abliged to read more of the article. The language techniques that are used are vastly engaging to the audience 'Liam Frays mum hits nail on the head' is greatly effective, as explained above it encourages the audience to read on as it creates humor. The features section is in the left hand side of the page,the features section displays a range of information which helps to organise what articles features where. This helps to keep a professional and orderly fashion to the magazine, which maintains an upper-class audience as well as a more immature audience. Page numbers are highly important as they link in with the previous point of maintaining an orderly and professional manner,as well as helping the audience to indicate what pages each article are on. A continous colour scheme of red, black and white are used throughout Q, the significance of this, is that it maintains a continous house style, to which the audience can relate to. The colour scheme, creates the genre of the magazine, as red is particulary related to Sex, whilst the colours black and white relate to the music genre of rock and roll. This therefore links to the band Oasis, as they are a rock widely associated rock band who relate to the youth of today, as they are obsessed with Sex, and rock and roll.




Double page spread

Language:

To begin with the large red "C" which covers one page of the double page spread, is hugly effective as it links to the artist that is featured on the page. The large "C" tells us that the article is all about Cheryl Cole, who is a massive solo artist, who used to be in one of the biggest girl bands in the World. The huge "C" is very indulging, and is an eye catcher meaning that it will attract many people into reading the article. This is often used on Q double page spreads as it is a clear and effective way of ensuring that the audience will read the article, it will also persuade more people into buying the product. There are two seperate images of Cheryl, firstly showing her sexy side, but also showing her rebellious but also fun side. This is a popular technique that Q use, as it shows a split personality to an artist therefore making the audience believe that there is more to the person that we believe. This is effective as it also therefore encourages the audience to read the article, as the images draw the reader in. The article itself is written in 3 seperate columns, using a clear and precise font, will ensure itc is easy to read. There is no introduction to this article, however it does have a highlighted quote that has been taken from the article, this is also in Red linking it to the huge "C" which links to Cherly, meaning that the article is completely about Cheryl. The name of the artist is situated at the top of the article, the text has a clear large font, which shows that Cheryl is the main protagonist of this article.