Conventions of a Music Magazine Front Cover, using LIIAR.

Language - Not only the writing of the cover, the language includes text, images/graphics, colour, masthead and more. These are all dependant on the genre and targeted audience of a magazine, in this a music magazine would feature language appropriate to it's reading audience. For example a rock music magazine will use an image of musician (informs the audience it's a music magazine) with a guitar (informs the audience they're viewing a rock music magazine) with a colour scheme using dark colours such as black. These will attract the a particular audience and allow the magazine to maintain an audience with interests in the particular genre. When it comes to me producing my music magazine front cover, I will uses images that are relevant to the music genre, colours that will appeal to the audience of the genre of my music magazine.

Institution - Of the music magazines I have researched, they have always been produced and published by commercial companies for example NME is funded and owned by the leading leading magazine consumer and digital publisher IPC Media.

Ideology -

Audience - When it comes to producing or analysing a text you must always decide who it is intended for, because if your producing a text you'll be able to include relevant language that interests the audience your targeting at. And when you analyse a text, you'll be able to see why specific language is included in a text by the producer, due to you knowing it's aimed at a certain chosen audience. When it comes to producing my music magazine, stylistic decisions will be affected by my targeted audience. For example my main cover image, will appeal to a magazine interested audience, for example the photo's mise-en-scene will feature props such as microphones, guitars and other music technology/equipment.

Representation - All media texts reflect or represent reality, a good example is how social groups are represented through the media. For example the indie band "The Wombats" are represented in photographs as wild party goers through their costume.