Here is a potential starting point for my music magazine drawn in rough to practise different layouts and how the mise-en-scene will effect the genre of my music magazine. To start with the clothes they are wearing have strong connotations of rave and dance type of music and overall different from typical genres of indie and heavy metal mags.

The mast head of my magazine dosent reely do anything for the magazine, however i was experimenting with the comic book style font created by myself to try and enhance an 80's type of theme. This is an aspect i may consider when producing my own.

At the top right of the front cover shows a smaller picture box of 4 more music artists, this is a good stratergy in making my magazine more appealing to the target audience as it shows it has alot to offer other than just the 3 main characters centre page.

Similar to the front cover of my TRC mock up magazine the same house styles are put to practice to set the theme through onto the contents page.

For the audience to have an easier understanding and where abouts collums have been used for better organisation and to set the order of importance. With this sub headings, underlining, bold lettering enable an simple discourse for the audience to follow, imagary of this type is also revelant as it helps back up the semantic field of education. One type of shot i used was a low angle shot this was on the college itself readressing the fact the college is the main issue therefore needing to look important and significantto the readers. Nothing too over the top is needed with this genre of magazine as its purpose is more important than the visuals to show this suttle plain colours are used to present the information.

The other pictures on page are a representation of a mixture of friends looking happy and at ease with their enviroment this is good for those people to first pick up the magzine wanting to know more about the college and the types of social groups their.

Here is my mock up front cover magazine for TRC.

Following typical conventions from other magazines i created a strong representation good enough to be used as it stands. To add verisilimilitude to my work main key aspects such as mise-en-scene, font styles, sell lines, mode of adress e.t.c needed to be present.

Constructing my masthead i used the serif font Times New Roman this giving the magazine an edge of importance and power which is nesercery as TRC stands as a name. The colours of the masthead i also use throughout the page this sets a simple theme going on and compliments the overall feel to the magazine letting the audience know its about a college magazine talking about college issues. The rest of the sell lines on page are Sans serif fonts this sets a less formal register and interacts with the audience on a peer-to-peer level. With this the magazine has a very friendly tenor to it with postive connotations, the lines " highest grades as of yet "and " B-ball team in great win streek" give confidence to the students urging them to continue impressing the college. I also used rhetoical questions as this drags the target audience in to read on.

The image i used was a representation of a sucessful student attending TRC. Having a mediam close up alowed me to capture the facial expression and body movement showing the student over looking a situation and having a minute to him self. The fact he is smiling also helps sell the magazine and has anchorage to the text on the right hand of the page.

In this essay I shall use semiotic terminology and discuss the denotations and connotations, the theory of Roland Barthez suggests this.

When first viewing the title of this music magazine we immediately pick up on the onomatopoeia in which is used this case Kerrang!. The word itself sounds like a heavy note being played on a guitar this connotes that the genre will be heavy rock, with this the font has also been cleverly made to look like the music is extremely loud and has cracked the lettering. The colour used for the mast head contrasts greatly with the dark background this helps advertisement purposes as the two work against each other and the white typography would be able to attract customers from a long distance.

The target demographic for the music magazine Kerrang! has changed over the years once a target for people in their mid twenties the target audience has dropped and many teenagers purchase this magazine. In this case for both male and female as the genre is niche.

Analysing the magazine through mise-en-scene the thing that strikes us most is the image of Led Zeppelin, with the image stereotypical traits have been used for example the facial expression showing attitude and passion for his music and the overall appearance of Led having long black hair and his body showing through his jacket, this is used to make the front page simplistic and easy for the audience to grasp. When looking at colours a sepia, gold colour is present this connotes that Led Zeppelin is an ideal self and is legendary. To help this the creators have also used a low angle shot this helps Led to have a powerful status and gives importance to the front page. Other smaller aspects are denoted as well as this, red is used for urgency and is excellent for attracting its target audience symbols are also present the star gives an exclusive feel to the media text and lets the consumers feel like the articles are only for them. The text used is all San serif this is wear no little bars (serifs) hang over the letters this is used not only with the mast head but on the sell lines and banners making the magazine stand out.

The mode of address of Kerrang! has an overall informative register which is frozen keeping distance from its consumers. This is used with simple declaratives which makes the consumers tempted to read on and buy the magazine. If the publishes had not restricted the content the target audience wouldn't need to buy the text as they would know what is going on just through the front page. The discourse structure compliments the image as the text is not overlapping or horizontally through the middle this makes the audience at ease and doesn't confuse them. Colours of the front page are appropriate for the genre in this case of heavy rock. The blacks are suitable as they juxtapose with the mood of the music.

The purpose of a contents page is simply to promote what the magazine has to offer, along with this it has to be simple for readers to follow and

understand.

The colour scheme is also themed and has also been used to an advantage juxtaposing the numbers to the sub headings making the layout easy to register. The page is also crammed with pictures and having one larger than the rest connotes importance and is the main attraction the rest placed smaller around.

Coming to the gender and the lack of females on the page is immediate from the start. The individual styles and fashion that are denoted can have many effects on the target audiences on one hand being ideal self's for large groups of male fans females can also admire them to be ideal partners. One aspect to follow is the lack of females on the content page this is stereotyping females in a negative way suggesting males control the rock industry and women artists don't have an input, this isn't always the case.

With the double sided spread the producers try their best to sell

their stories and with this one using alot of imagery of bands in action to excite the audience the pictures are also from live gigs this sets the mode of address and sets a friendly mood connoting that the pictures are exclusive and private to that consumer.

Juxtaposition is used to a clear advantage through having one big image of the band member it is clear that the other smaller pictures are connected having similar characteristics such as the back ground being a concert stage and body gestures of stereotypical rockers from this a wide spread confident stance and dark clothes which we suspect to see with this type of genre.

Similar to the content page the producers have used a rough effect, torn and ripped around the images this has strong connotations to us the audience in that the denotations of the black rough ink could reflect on the band members personality and way of living this consisting of a rough lifestyle and that they don't take life too seriously having attitude.

The use of a rhetorical question also gets anchorage to the pictures of the band in action and is great for making a connection with the reader giving them a sense of opinion and all at the same level of status, the fact that the black text if placed on a grey long rectangle successfully makes the foreground jump of from the black background.