Main task

Foundation Portfolio
For the foundation portfolio I have to create my own Music Magazine. The Magazine has to have a Frontpage , a Contents Page and a Double Page Spread. All of the magazine will be designed by me. On the task I have to use my own pictures which means I will have to go out and take my own pictures. This is the first main task so I will be looking at the key concepts and using LIIAR to do this. I am basing my magazine upon the idea of the rock music magazine Kerrang!

Language-The language I am going to use on the magazine is going to be fun, light, simple and relating to the genre of music and people who have an interest in the music industry which is around today. The text color and the image depends completely on the genre of music and the audience the music magazine is going to be aimed at. An example is the music magazine Kerrang! Kerrang! is released every Wednesday and the colors used are Blacks, Whites and Grey's to create the music genre of Rock and heavy metal. On the other hand, it can be said that a mix type of music magazine which covers Indie, Heavy metal and Pop would use a range of colors ranging from bright colors to dark colors.

Ideology- The idea behind my music magazine is to entertain and inform the audience I am aiming at about the music world I choose, such as what is going on, events which are being held and the latest interviews with the latest bands. By doing this it will promote the music genre I decide to base my magazine on.

Institution-The institution is the music magazine publisher. Around today there is many different music publishers. I am going to research into the different music companies around and the audience which they cater for.

H Bauer is a British Magazine Publishing Company. The Company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but is now owned by Apex and Guardian Music Group. H Bauer publishes the popular weekly rock magazine Kerrang! The six music magazines in the H Bauer performance stable is Kerrang! Smash Hits, Q, Mojo, Sneak and Mixmag. All these magazines cover for different ages and different music tastes which the readers have but all have one thing in common which is to entertain to the audience.

IPC Media is the leading Consumer Magazine Publisher. Almost two in every three UK women and over 45% of UK men read an IPC magazine. That's almost 27 million UK adults. IPC offers all magazines for everyone. Some of the best know magazines published by IPC include What’s on TV, Pick me up, Woman, Now Marie Claire, In Style, Nuts and Country Life. They also publish the famous music website NME.

Representation-The magazine is going to be representing people who are into rock and who are people with attitude and who love to know the latest from the rock world.