LIIAR Music Magazine

Language: The language is relevant to the intended audience, or who the magazine is going to appeal to. The masthead has to be relevant to the reader, like the ,magazine "Kerrang" is extremely relevant to the genre of music that the intended audience like, rock and heavy metal music. The language also has to be relevant to the genre of the magazine. The language on the cover has to be appealing to all readers and new customers to promote it.

Institution: The institution is the company that owns the magazine development company, e.g the company that owns N.M.E or Kerrang.


Ideology: The ideology of a music magazine are the values. For "Kerrang" the values are rock/heavy metal music, bands, concerts etc. When making my magazine i will have to research ideology for the genre of my music magazine, and the audience it is aimed at.

Audience: The audience is very important, as this is who you will be selling your magazine to, who it will be aimed at. Without an audience the magazine will not sell. The cover of the magazine has to be presented in a way to attract the audience. the Images, language and layout are all key to attracting the right audience for your magazine.

Representation: Representation is shown throughout media in many ways. Everything that is represented by something, a way it works, or something it does. In a music magazine, music is portrayed as an essential part of life, or something that is shown around the world in many genres. When making my magazine i will have to researh how I am going to represent it in order to attract my intended audience.