Foundation Portfolio-Main Task

This task involves me creating a magazine front cover, a double page spread and a mock contents page of a new music magazine I must create. I have to consider the key media concepts and apply them to my ideas of my music products, I will use the acronym LIIAR:

Language: The language that will be used will be entertauining as magazines are there to entertain and interesting to my audience, who are interested in the music industry. The colours and textures will be relevent to my targeted audience. For example, if the magazine is going to be like NME, the colours will be darker, such as black and red with gray etc, however, if the magazine is a pop magazine such as Smash Hits, then the colours will be ones such as pastle colours, green, pale blue, yellow etc. which will make it eye catching.

Ideology: The overall purpose of my magazine will be to entertain and inform. The kind of content will be things such as new releases of new bands, old bands and anything you imagine to be in a magazine. Depending on which genre I choose, I will promote articles on that genre too.

Institution: The institution is the music magazine publisher. There are lots of different music publishers so I chose to research IPC Media and Emap

Ipc media is the most popular music publishing company in the UK and it offers several different magazines that cater for different genres, the most popular magazine published by them is NME, this is the weekly magazine that gives information on the latest music news, gives gig dates, tracks, reviews and albums. The reviews are given by a varied amount of opinionated writers.

Emap: This is the publisher for Kerrang magazine, this is a multi-platform magazine and it's genre is rock. Emap also publish: Smash Hits, Q and Mojo, along with others.

Audience: Every magazine has their own publishers and different target audiences, my magazine will be aimed at those in late teens to the thitries.

Representation: The representation varies on the music genre, as Kerrang focuses on heavy metal/rock. My magazine will represent a sort of rapping magazine, with a techno feel to it.