LIIAR Evaluation
Language
My college magazine or media product develops and uses forms and conventions from other college magazines I researched by doing a LIIAR analysis of them. My college magazine has a brightly coloured masthead at the top, left hand corner of the magazine. The masthead is abbreviated from Wyke College Magazine to WCM. All of the writing on the front cover is in the same font and font colour, white with a dark purple background behind it. The banner headline is only one deck and says ‘Highest Pass Rate!’, it is directly below the masthead making it easily visible. The student on the front links to the banner headline because the student looks like he is a hard worker but at the same time he looks relaxed and happy which gives a positive impression on the college. All of the text is on the left hand side of the page which makes it look neat and organised but also quite boring. I have used straplines to shorten the stories in the magazine and made them sound interesting and exciting. For the house style, I have used purple as the colour and I have used only one font throughout the front cover and contents page.
Institution
Wyke Sixth Form College might distribute my magazine because it is all about Wyke College and what it has to offer.
Ideology
My college magazine is set out of represented to people who want to attend Wyke College or who are interested in joining it and want to find out more about the college and what it has to offer.
Audience
For my media product, the audience would usually be in the range of 15-24 year olds, mainly consisting of 16-18 year olds because that is the age of a college student. Also because the language I have used is informal and is directed towards teenagers and young adults. My magazine is also suitable for all socio-economic groups (SEG) because the sentences and sentence structures are short and understandable. My magazine is directed at inner and outer-directed groups or integrated groups as it has facts, trips and it mentions the technology the college use.
Representation
Many teenagers are usually interested in things which benefit them as a person, so I mentioned college trips and put in photos of the college to show what it looks like so people could observe it and find out what the trips are like, how long you are there for and what you do on the trip. This will draw the reader into the article and the pictures will give them something to look at. The model in on the front cover has headphones hanging down from his t-shirt which many teenagers do so they can have easy access to their music because teenagers are probably more interested in music than anything else in this stage of their lives. The contents page also shows a picture of the Statue Of Liberty and says next to it the abbreviated version of New York ‘NYC’ which is located in America. Most teenagers dreams is to go to New York to go shopping to buy clothes, jewellery or music. This is why I mentioned the Media trip to New York so that it convinces people to go to the college and to take media at the college.
