Analysis of Music Magazine

The masthead of the magazine is big, bold & eyecatching. It's a masthead most of us will recgonize.

On the cover is a picture of Brandon Flowers from The Killers, and underneath it reads ''THE BIG HEADLINERS! THE KILLERS'' this is eye catching and where our eyes go after looking at the masthead and the picture of Brandon Flowers.

The Killers are a well known popular band, so they are a safe option for the magazine to use on the cover, as they know alot of people will be interested in reading about them.

Apart from Brandons face the background is nearly alomost black, which matches the frame colour of his glasses. the expression on his face is very serious which also goes with the colour black.

The rest of the text on the cover of the magazine is in NME's famous colours, Red & Yellow.

Next to the plug on The Killers, theres a list of bands expected to be playing at Reading & Leeds Festival. This will draw in a huge audience as a couple of years ago The Reading & Leeds festival was awared Number 1 U.K Festival and draws in crows of over 80,000 people every year. So a massive audience will want to read about the bands that are expected to play that year.

LIIAR Of Music Magazine Project

As I'm now starting my Music Magazine project I'm looking again at how media key concepts can be applied to produce my magazine. I'm using the acronym LIIAR - Language, Institution, Ideology, Audience & Representation.

Language - Layout, text & font. Arrangement of the masthead and the text etc. Look at what kind of language is used in the music media, Is there any slang that the readers will relate to?

Institution - The organization that are going to be producing my magazine are going to be Clubbers, DJ'S, Music reviewers and critics.
For example Mixmag readers are the opinion formers and leaders in clubbing. They spend their money on Nights out, Clothes, Music, and the latest mobile phone and MP3 Player.
72% of the readers are male and 28% are female, they don't read other magazines and watch very little television, especially on weekends.
I got my information from http://www.mixmag.net/content/reader-profile

Ideology - The ideology of the magazine will be to promote club nights and venues, give out a message of always telling people where the best club nights are and who the hottest new acts are etc.

Audience - My magazine will be aimed at Clubbers, DJ's etc. People who spent alot of money on nights out and clubbing, people who are always on the look out for new music, It will be aimed at people who like club music such as, House, Trance, Techno, Dance etc.

Representation - My magazine will represents clubbers to be out going people, always up for a laugh