Price of magazine!

The magazine I will be creating would be published monthly as it will give the publishers time to create the next magazine and get a lot of information for it. Seen as though the magazine will be published monthly, I will sell it for around £3 as it will appeal to the socio-economic groups C2, D and E. I think £3 is a suitable price as it isn't too pricey  for these groups. The target audience in relation to age is about 16 to 30 as I think this is an age range that will mostly be interested in an indie-rock magazine.



A- Higher managerial, administrative, professional e.g. Chief executive, senior civil servant, surgeon


B - Intermediate managerial, administrative, professional e.g. bank manager, teacher


C1- Supervisory, clerical, junior managerial e.g. shop floor supervisor, bank clerk, sales person


C2 - Skilled manual workers e.g. electrician, carpenter


D- Semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers e.g. assembly line worker, refuse collector, messenger


E - Casual labourers, pensioners, unemployed e.g. pensioners without private pensions and anyone living on basic benefits

NME double page spread!

Language: This double-page spread from the NME issue features Lily Allen. She is wearing an iconic costume such as a 'lumberjack' chequered shirt, which is iconic of Indie. Her hair is also black and swept to the side of her face, which is an iconic hairstyle. The make-up she is wearing is also thick black which is iconic. She does, however, keep some part of her girly style by the use of the prop necklace, which allows her to express herself as still girly and not a 'tomboy'. The text is also connotates punk as the iconic punk band 'The Sex Pistols' are often wrote in that font style. She is slightly leaning, connotating that she's a bit tired or fed up, but she is still happy, and has her hands on her waists, allowing the girly side of her to still be seen. The layout of the article remains conventional; minimal text, large dominating image taking up one whole page and a large headline, in this context, in the form of a quote. It then, above the article text, has a small headline to start it off. The colour scheme, reflecting the cover models personality, is red and black, connotating, through mise-en-scene, that she is not as good as she appears to be, she has a darker side and is dangerous (the use of red connotates this). The colour of her costume (shirt) also connotates this as the mise en scene of this is the colour red, mostly dominating the article, and the black lines on her shirt. There is also high, artificial lighting showing her good side.

Institution: The publishers of NME magazine are IPC Media. The magazine has been publishing for 58 years and still lives on as one of the most popular music magazines in the world.


Ideology: The ideas in which NME is trying to convey is that Lilly Allen isn't a 'chav' anymore (that was her first image) and is now quite cool and indie. It also shows us that she's quite sexy which is connotates through the use of her costume (shirt) being unbuttoned at the top.


Audience: The target audience is 'indie', style-conscious, UK teenagers from the age roughly 15-25 years of age. They would be in a low class system as they wouldn't have lots of money, but wouldn't necessarily be poor as they would be in to the latest fashion.


Representation: Lilly Allen is represented as a bit of an 'indie/emo' person due to her costume, makeup, and the text associated with her. She is also represented as quite rebellious in the way she, unconventionally, isn't looking directly at the camera lens. This makes the image look professional but not conventional. Social groups such as chavs or 'gangsters' (people who idolise rappers or R&B artists) as these are the styles and forms of music which NME doesn't deal with, and therefore would clash with its overall image. To properly convey what I am trying to say about the text use and The Sex Pistols, here is a poster of them, and note the similarity between the two texts.

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Analysis of Mojo magazine contents!

Language
The contents page of 'MOJO' magazine features, at the top of the page, the word 'MOJO', as apposed to  contents. However, the reader can tell that this is the contents page due to the typical conventions such as page numbers, feature headings in a bold text, information under the heading about that feature and also, images relating to one, or more, of the features in the magazine. The title text 'MOJO' is bold, large and in a simple font, making it stand out and catch the readers eye. On the contents, there are featured pages that they have highlighted in red, and have an image next to them with a page number also. These pages are suggested to the reader from the publishers. The contents page is effective because they have used a white background for the actual page numbers and text, and used black font so it stands out to the reader. Also, they have used an artistic background behind the white page to give the overall page some depth.

Institution- The publishers of 'MOJO' magazine are Bauer Media who publish many other magazines such as Q, Kerrang and FHM. Bauer Media are Europe's largest privately owned publishing group and they publish over 300 magazines in 15 different countries. They also publish online, T.V and radio stations.

Audience-The genre MOJO music magazine is a mix of traditional music such as The Beatles and bands such as Oasis and Radiohead. People interested in old music such as The Beatles will be interested in the magazine, as well as people interested in new bands that are evolving in the music industry.

Ideology- The reason behind the contents page is to inform the readers where specific articles and contents are in the magazine, and they use page numbers to do so. The contents page needs to be effective and straight to the point because when people pick the magazine up in shop, they usually look at the front cover, then the contents page to find out what is featured in the magazine. If they like what's on the contents page, they are more likely to purchase the magazine.

Representation- The contents page represents the magazine in a positive way as it has a good balance between text and images which is an important convention of a contents page. This could symbolise that the magazine is a good balance of all music genres so it would appeal to the majority of music lovers new and old.

Q Magazine contents page!

Language- The contents page of Q magazine contains a heading, a main image, sub-headings and some sub-text. The colour scheme on the contents is very similar to the front cover which is a important convention of music magazines. The Q logo is located in the top left corner next to the contents heading. The sub-heading is white with a red background which works well together and stands out on the page. The large image on the right hand side of the page is the main feature on the contents as it dominates the space and is very noticeable, and the image has a caption containing the brief information about the band in the image, and the page number. The front cover and contents page show continuity as they both have the same colours and fonts throughout. This contents page is effective as it's set out to be easy readable for the audience. A common convention in this magazine and most music magazines is the section that is there every issue, and they just change the things they write on it every issue.

Institution- The producer of the magazine is Bauer media who also produce other music magazines such as Kerrang and Mojo. They have to make sure they produce magazines that are going to sell regularly, so they have to be a good standard.

Ideology- The idea behind the contents page is for readers to be informed what is featured in the magazine, so they could skip straight to a particular page they are interested in. The producers are trying to promote the magazine to be bought as people that are interested in buying a magazine in a shop, usually look at the contents, so the contents has to be a good standard.

Audience- Q magazine do not have a specific music genre which they target for an audience. There are different genre's of music throughout there magazines. This gives the magazine diversity and a good opportunity to introduce different music genres into it.

Representation- The main image on the contents is of the band 'The Courteeners' and they are represented in a positive way as they are the main image. The image is an accurate representation of the band to make the magazine look as real as possible.