'Q' Contents Page- Conventions and LIIAR Analysis

This ‘Q’ contents page uses the conventions of contents pages; it has the ‘Features’ section with all the stories that are unique to this edition of the magazine. However, it does not have a section for the features that are every week, which is because it is ‘Subscribers’ edition so the people who will be reading this will know what to expect every week and will only be interested in the special features section.

It also has page numbers that give reference to the location of articles in the magazine with the name of the article or the feature person of the magazine (e.g. ‘Zane Low’ and ‘Tinie Tempah’) because these are well known names and will attract the reader directly to that page.

The colour scheme is continuous throughout the entire page, and matches the colour scheme on the front cover and in the rest of the magazine. This gives the magazine a house style and connects the magazine together and makes it look as one. There are also pictures that relate to the features of the magazine, giving the reader an idea of what to expect when they go to that page (for example if it is a band they have not heard of before, the picture could give them an idea of what that band may be like with the clothes they wear/gender/make-up etc.)

The Language they have used to attract their target audience relates a lot to the actual magazine. For example "250 Albums Of Q's Lifetime", this links the reader and the magazine together because it allows them to feel part of the magazine if they share their favourite albums with the reader.
The Institution would be Q magazine and its editors because they want to keep the magazine popular and keep relating to the audience so that people will carry on buying their magazine which will allow them to carry on making money from it.
The Ideology would be putting bands/artists that fit in with the genre of that magazine that would attract the audience to carry on reading the magazine. They would have to feature musicians suitable to their genre otherwise their target audience would not want to read it and their sales would significantly decrease.
The Target Audience would be people interested in a mixture of music, because the artists featured on this contents page are a mixture of RnB (Tinie Tempah) and Indie Rock bands such as Muse and Oasis are also featured on this page, so the target audience would be very wide.