music magazine brief

main task: the front page, contents and double page spread for a new music magazine ( if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style)

LIIAR analysis of my magazine

LIIAR analysis of my magazine

Language

My magazine cover houses a picture of a student smiling at the audience, the denotation of this is that he is smiling and is happy, but the connotations could be that Wyke College is a warm and fun place and its students like to study there to achieve the best they can. I have used the image of the student as my brand image, I have used this image to create the belief of popularity to this person and the fact that the magazine is doing an exclusive in that person will contribute to the fact that this person is popular and people are interested enough to continue reading because they envy the attention.  I have used ‘Wyke college magazine’ as the logo for my magazine, the colours I have used for this logo is purple and black, a black fill with black outline. I have used purple because it is college colours and I believe it stands out and is eye-catching. I have not included a barcode or a price tag in my front cover because my magazine is free of charge and available to anyone in the college. I do have a consistent house style with purple, black and white being the only colours. I have used an exclusive in my magazine; I believe this exclusive will give me the edge over other magazines as this magazine will be the only one to have it. I have included thumbnail images and captions, the thumbnails are pictures of geography and media trip. The indent in my magazine would be the logo; people will recognise that the institution of this magazine is Wyke College because of the logo.to create the image of a student outside smiling, I took a photo of a student, I then took a photo of the college. I then photoshopped the image of the student onto the image of the college. The brightness of the image of the student wasn’t right and looked out of place so I turned the brightness down and played around with contrast as well, even after the brightness was right, the image still looked out of place so I then blurred the edges of the image of the student. After all of this, finally the both the images looked like they belong to each other.  I have used captions under the thumbnails of the geography and media trips, I included captions because without them they would just be pictures leading to nothing, the captions tell the audience of what the pictures relate to. By giving the information about the thumbnails, it could increase the audience’s interest in the magazine. The thumbnail could attract the audience in a personal level. 

Ideology

The message I wish to send with my magazine is that Wyke College is a fun and full of interesting things to do. I also wish to inform the reader of the social aspects of college and to show that college life can be fun; I have included articles such as ‘Wyke party at position’. I believe the social side of the magazine will appeal to my target audience which is college students. Along with being a fun college I also wish to portray in my magazine that Wyke is a very serious college and all about achieving the best you possibly can.

Institution 

The institution of my magazine will be Wyke College; the magazine will be made by Wyke for its students and teachers. I believe that Wyke would like to distribute my magazine because it will be making all the students and teachers aware of what is going on in the college, and inform them of things they wouldn’t have known otherwise.

Audience

The Audience of my magazine is going to be wyke students and teachers. The reason for this is because my magazine is about wyke. The demographic group I have focused on is 16-24; I have chosen this age group because my target audience lies between these ages. The group I have gone for on the VALS system is the outer-directed, I have chosen this group because college student thrive to achieve. I have focused on group E in the SEG groups because a lot of college students are not very skilled yet as they are still getting their qualifications and a lot of them don’t have jobs.

Representation

With my magazine, I will be representing Wyke College as a happy college and their aim is to get the best out of pupils. I did wish to portray as a stereotypical college but, only as in the way of education. The stereotypical view I wish to portray is that Wyke College is hardworking, happy college.

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