Contents page L.I.I.A.R Analysis

Contents page:
Language- The purpose of a contents page is to tell the reader what is going to be in this issue of the magazine. The colours all compliment each other and the pictures used all show what the magazine is about. The magazine is aimed at drummers because it issues things about famous drummers and how to reach the standards that people could be at. The layout is fairly neat and tidy which contrasts with the genre and purpose of the magazine. The headline is still on the contents page which is a convention of a music magazine. 

Ideology- The attitude of the magazine would be fairly rock style and careless, however this is not reflected in the layout of the contents page because the contents page gives a fairly neat approach. It keeps up to date with modern trends because lots of people have started drumming recently due to the increase in popularity of rock music as a whole. The beliefs would be that the magazine would attract people to begin drumming and maybe help drummers improve. 

Institution- Establishing a brand name is an obvious source of profitability because customers develop a reliability and trust to these brands. Another source of profitability would be to add plugs to the magazine as a whole because people like to see competitions and free things to do when they buy a magazine. The contents page could also include a phone number for a drum school or something also because this would attract drummers.

Audience- The audience of this magazine would be drummers, obviously and maybe people who are interested in drummers. Famous drummers could be featured on the contents page, people such as Travis Barker (Drummer from Blink-182) which could then add a few things about band drummers which would introduce bands which would maybe attract more people.

Representation- The colours are representational of the rock genre which is the particular genre that drummers belong to. The positioning of the pictures and the writing on the page is fairly neat which contrasts with the genre of the magazine itself. The white background makes the pictures stand out because they have a dark colouring to them so the colours contrast in an effective way to compliment each other and make each other prominent on the page.