Vibe is a well known top R&B music magazine. this magazine represents media language through masthead, main image, main cover lines and cover lines. it is clear to the audience that it is a well known magazine becks the masthead is slightly covered by the main image.

This shows that people don't need to see the name of the magazine to know what it is. The word vibe can be associated with music this also represents the fact it is a music magazine. vibe also use vibrant colour's to catch the readers eye. the main image in the particular magazine is akon, but in all of vibes magazines they use well known successful artists.

They do this because the know the audience will want to read about them. In alot of vibes magazines the main image takes up alot of the front cover. In this image akon is pointing towards you, this is done to draw the reader in making them think its them who should read it.

The main cover line is also about akon. this gives information about what is inside the magazine. as you can see the akon and hit are in bold these words jump out at the reader to catch the eye and make them want to read more.

the ideology of this magazine is vibe. the purpose it to give information about the world or R&B music.

representation

representation is the way something or someone is represented, for example phil mitchel is represented to the audience as the local hard man in tv soap opra in eastenders. he is given cirtain roles to play to create this character so he is represented this way.

audience

a target audience, or target group is the primary group of people that something, usually is aimed at appealing to. A target audience can be people of a certain age group, gender, teenagers, females, single people, etc. A certain combination, like men from twenty to thirty is often a target audience. Other groups, although not the main focus, may also be interested. Discovering the appropriate target market. to market a product or service to is one of the most important stages involved with market research. Without knowing the target audience, a company's advertising and the selling efforts can become difficult and very expensive. for a music magazine you have to look at different genres of music for exsample rock, pop, metal and so on.

Ideology

This is the idea of what the magazine would be selling. The things that are included in something that makes it important, like the idea that ideology for Q magazine will be rock bands or just rock in general and the ideology of a football magazine is football.

institution

institution is Companies, like TV channels, magazines, radio stations.

terminology

language terminology

masthead
cover lines
main image
date
bar code
price
text
colour

media language

media language is made of visual written and technical elements carefully selected to represent different types of products and their target audiences. for example magazines use different combinations of images titles and content to create genericformulas aimed at diffrent readerships and audiences.

music magazine brief

main task : the front page, contents ans double page spread of a new magazine. all images and text used must be original, produced by you-minimum of four images.