Foundation Portfolio - Main Task

The Foundation portfolio - main task involves me designing and producing a front cover, double page spread and a contents page based on a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by me with a minimum of four original images.


To help me with this task i have used the acronym LIIAR; language, institution, ideology, audience, representation.


* Language - The layout of the magazine, the font, colour and size of the text whether the text is bold, underlined or italic. what type of text is used for the main headline, plugs and the strapline. The images used whether the photograph is in colour or black and white.





* Institution - Different types of music genres are produced and published by different magazine publishes this all depends on the genre.



- EMAP is a British company originally founded in 1947. They publish a wide variety of music magazines aimed at a number of different audiences. Such as Mojo and Q magazine which is aimed at a much older age group then Karrang which is aimed at a much younger audience.



- IPC Media is Britain's leading publisher selling over 350 million copies a year. There publishing coveres a wide range of different magazines such as women's weekly, men's lifestyle and entertainment. However they do publish one of Britain's most accomplished music magazine NME.

- Future magazines are just one of the types of media this company produces they also produce websites and organize events for example; technology and games. They can publish up to 4 million magazines each month. The music magazines they publish however are classic rock, rhythm and guitarist.

Ideology the reason for my music magazine is to make it appeal to my target audience thus sell more copies. In order to do this I am going to have interesting articles about bands, I am also going to give information on bands tours, interviews and various other information that my audience may find helpful or interesting. However this would all depend on the genre of the magazine I choose to produce.

Audience the audience for any music magazine is for the people who are interesting in that particular style of music although the magazine may well be aimed at a much younger age group at times. My magazine will be aimed at teenagers and young adults.

Representation again the genre of a magazine influences the representation used. I plan on representing different social groups through using my magazine. The band or singer that I am going to use will have to be represented in a certain way to fit the genre of my chosen magazine.