What LIIAR is.

LANGUAGE
How the magazine is made into language, for example how the mastheads or subtitles are used. The language for the magazine will vary on who it is aimed at for example if it is aimed at the teachers the text will be more formal than the text that would be used if it was for the students.

INSTITUTIONS
Who produced the text, and does it matter who produced it? Does who produced it effect the quality of the text?

IDEOLOGY
What ideas does the magazine give off? What values, norms and morals are used? What are the initial ideas of the magazine?

AUDIENCE
Who is the magazine aimed at? There is not a single meaning there is a range of possibilities which are defined by both the text and the audience. Being that this is for a college magazine it will purely be aimed at teachers and students of all ages and genders.

REPRESENTATION
Is the magazine represented in a negative or postive way? What makes it negative or positive? Locations/Religion/Gender/Stereotypes? Referring to the aspects of 'reality' such as people. places, objects etc. However it depends on what the magazine is about and in this case it is about college and so for it to appeal to its' target audience it will be positive showing both the teachers and students as hard working.

AS Media Studies Brief and Preliminary task

Preliminary exercise:
using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the fton page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additonally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main task:
the front page, contents, and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be orginal, produced by you-minimum of four images.