LIIAR Analysis and Images (unfinished)

College Magazine: LIIAR Analysis

Language:

Like professional magazine, I have used a realistic MCU, barcode and cover lines. I have used captions to tease articles about the images to the reader, with page references to the articles related.

I have also followed the conventions of a magazine, having a MCU in the centre of the front cover, a barcode in the bottom corner and cover lines surrounding the images.

Institution:

I have based my magazine on Wyke College, so logically; Wyke College would be the institute that sells the magazine. The magazine may also be sold in secondary schools, during open evenings, to attract new students.

Ideology:

I need to project the idea that students are intelligent and helpful to the local community, and the staff are helpful and approachable. I also need to argue against the stereotype of the anti-social, uneducation youth that is frequently publicised in newspapers and the media.

Audience:

The audience for my magazine are Wyke College students, (males and females, 16-20), Wyke College staff, families of Wyke College staff and students, ex students and possible new students.

Future and current students would be in group E (casual labourers, unemployed, state pensioners) of the socio-economic groups, due to the fact that most of them will be in education full time, and the ones that have jobs will be low-paid and part time.

To make it attractive to this audience, I will use photographs of students in the magazine, to make the audience connect with the articles. Also, I have added articles that I believe would be interesting to student readers, and also show the success of the college to families, future and past students, and students of other college. To make it affordable, I will launch the magazine monthly, and have it at a low price (e.g., 50p to £1.50.)
Families and staff wikll be in A/B/C1 groups (higher/intermediate/lower managerial, administrative or professional). It would be quite hard to make this magazine attract both the A/B/C1 groups and the E group, so I believe the magazine will attract the members of these groups, due to their current relations to the college it is related to (i.e., the magazine covers an issue they are interested in.)

Representation:

I need to represent a happy, intelligent and successful college, with positive students and helpful staff. To do this, I have included a photo of a young man reading a book in a library, with a smile on his face, to represent the intelligence of the students of Wyke, and also the students' keen interest in their studies. I also used a small thumbnail image of a member of staff smiling at the camera. I have used this image to show how friendly and approachable the staff are in Wyke.