Conventions of a school/college magazine front cover, using LIIAR.

Language- This includes not only text in the inside pages, but also the masthead, images, colours, and cover lines. (E.g; relevant pictures which appeal to the audience, and suitable, appropriate colours for the layout of the magazine as a whole. (Idealistic colours=white background with black text). The way each of these are presented and created depends on the audience, which, in this case, is school/college teachers of a varied age group. For my magazine, I will use language which is both appealing and understanded by the audience, in order to create a successful magazine.

Institution- Unknown. (For my magazine, I will be controlling the production process, which means whatever choices I make will affect the final outcome of the magazine).

Ideology- The explicit and implicit values of the magazine and its agenda. This asks what are the bigger and smaller features of the magazine and what is its aim, which is to guide and educate the college/school teacher reading the magazine. When creating my magazine, I will have to decide which features will be important to include for the purpose of the reader, in order to portray the correct message.

Audience- The final product of the magazine is based around the genre of the magazine, and the audience, which is the group of people it is aimed at. This is made clear whenever analysing text, as the language used also gives a clue towards which type of people it is aimed at. When creating my magazine, I will think carefully about the presentation of both the language and magazine layout as a whole, in order to appeal directly to the audience intended.

Representation- This is what people/issues are included, and how they are portrayed. The central group of people involved in my magazine will be students, however I will not portray them as they are stereotypically seen by people in the media as trouble-causing bullies, but rather as good, hard-working, ambitious young people.