representation

representation

representation is the way something or someone is represented, for example phil mitchel is represented to the audience as the local hard man in tv soap opra in eastenders. he is given cirtain roles to play to create this character so he is represented this way.

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

audience

a target audience, or target group is the primary group of people that something, usually is aimed at appealing to. A target audience can be people of a certain age group, gender, teenagers, females, single people, etc. A certain combination, like men from twenty to thirty is often a target audience. Other groups, although not the main focus, may also be interested. Discovering the appropriate target market. to market a product or service to is one of the most important stages involved with market research. Without knowing the target audience, a company's advertising and the selling efforts can become difficult and very expensive. for a music magazine you have to look at different genres of music for exsample rock, pop, metal and so on.

Ideology

This is the idea of what the magazine would be selling. The things that are included in something that makes it important, like the idea that ideology for Q magazine will be rock bands or just rock in general and the ideology of a football magazine is football.

institution

institution is Companies, like TV channels, magazines, radio stations.

Vibe is a well known top R&B music magazine. this magazine represents media language through masthead, main image, main cover lines and cover lines. it is clear to the audience that it is a well known magazine becks the masthead is slightly covered by the main image.

This shows that people don't need to see the name of the magazine to know what it is. The word vibe can be associated with music this also represents the fact it is a music magazine. vibe also use vibrant colour's to catch the readers eye. the main image in the particular magazine is akon, but in all of vibes magazines they use well known successful artists.

They do this because the know the audience will want to read about them. In alot of vibes magazines the main image takes up alot of the front cover. In this image akon is pointing towards you, this is done to draw the reader in making them think its them who should read it.

The main cover line is also about akon. this gives information about what is inside the magazine. as you can see the akon and hit are in bold these words jump out at the reader to catch the eye and make them want to read more.

the ideology of this magazine is vibe. the purpose it to give information about the world or R&B music.

This is a collage of vibe magazines. In each one of these magazines they all have the same layout. Each vibe magazine has a main image in the center of the page of a successful artist with the masthead slightly behind them.

The institution of all of these magazines is vibe, and the purpose and objectives is to inform entertain and make money. This is done through sell lines, of cover lines and the main image of a well known artist. All music magazines contain these, they are just little snippets of what is in the magazine. what cover lines do is sell the magazine and draws the reader in. all off these magazines have bar codes this shows it is there to make money.

The colour in each of the magazines is bring to catch the readers attention. in many of the the magazines the masthead is in the same colour as the sell lines these are the ones that stand out most.

content page

content page

The image of the contents page is of a band standing on a hill which is natural which is quite calm and different to the conventional plain background.Also the contents page is in 3 columns. 1 column is named features this will include all the main headline witch is inside the magazine. the word features is in white with a red back ground this could link to the institution of the magazine witch is Q, witch is lay ed out is the same way White with a red background. The second column is named every month. this shows what is included in the magazine every month. it is all so linked with the institution of the magazine with a red background and white writing. the 3d column is called review this shows all the reviews with famous artists.

double page spread

double page spread

This double page spread is out of Q magazine. i have noticed that all off the double page spread i have researched they are very similar in the way they have been presented. In this particular double page spread the main image is off westlife a highly successful pop band. the image covers about 75 % of the double page spread. the main image links to the text witch says smell the glove in big bold red writing, this is done so it catches the readers attention straight away. the image shows each band member pointing or showing there gloves. underneath the main image there is an article about the band. it is particularly small so people who read it would have to be drawn in by the big image as i don't feel people would be drawn to it straight away. down the right hand side of the spread there is further more images showing the band at a concert and singing autographs this give the impression the text at the bottom maybe talking about up coming events or how the concert went. the audience for this page would be fans of the band west life and who are interested in what they have to say.

double page spread

This double page spread is out of Q magazine. i have noticed that all off the double page spread i have researched they are very similar in the way they have been presented. In this particular double page spread the main image is off westlife a highly successful pop band. the image covers about 75 % of the double page spread. the main image links to the text witch says smell the glove in big bold red writing, this is done so it catches the readers attention straight away. the image shows each band member pointing or showing there gloves. underneath the main image there is an article about the band. it is particularly small so people who read it would have to be drawn in by the big image as i don't feel people would be drawn to it straight away. down the right hand side of the spread there is further more images showing the band at a concert and singing autographs this give the impression the text at the bottom maybe talking about up coming events or how the concert went. the audience for this page would be fans of the band west life and who are interested in what they have to say.

double page spread

double page spread

this is another double page spread i found in a issue of Q magazine. the spread is about another well know band oasis. i picked this one out as i belive its another good exsample of a double page spread , i noticed it had a similar layout as the westlife double page spread. the image this time only covers 50% of the page. it shows the band members walking down a street looking very causual , the text on the other hand says the unliky lads, in bold white writting, this is suggesting they have done something who noone expected them to do. this makes the reader want to know more about the article and again just like in the other double page spread the article is in very small writting.