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- 1. HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE Evaluation Question 5 Holly Taylor
- 2. TARGET AUDIENCE The main target audience of my music magazine is 16-30 year old males and females and so, I had to create my magazine to attract the demographic to purchase my magazine. I researched Kerrang!, Q and NME magazine in order to apply the common codes and conventions to my magazine.
- 3. MODELS In my magazine, I included young 17 year old models as the main cover images and also for my more minor images. The cover girl is similar to my chosen demographics age (16-30 year olds) and therefore, they can relate to the main cover star. As I had no male cover stars, I aimed to attract a male target audience through the use of headlines such as male dominated bands like Fall out Boy and Papa Roach as features of my magazine.
- 4. COLOUR SCHEME The colour scheme of my magazine is consistent with relevant magazines I researched. The colour scheme I have chosen reflects a unisex magazine. The shades of red I chose are a deep colour and so weren’t too feminine or vibrant so don’t alienate the male audience. The black, white, grey and yellow colours also create a design balance and so text is easily seen. Unlike, magazines such as Top Of The Pops where the colours are mainly bright and vibrant colours
- 5. PHOTOGRAPHY Although my main cover star is female, I did not want to alienate my demographic and so I chose to dress her quite masculine in my mise en scene, by choosing her to wear dark coloured clothing and also she is wearing a men’s bowler hat, with chunky type boots and so overall the look isn’t particularly feminine. However, I have kept some feminine aspects, by including her wearing a dress, with dark red lipstick and her nails painted
- 6. MUSIC GENRE For my magazine, I wanted to create a magazine that features a diverse range of music, rather than just aiming my magazine towards one specific music genre like Kerrang! And so, I included on the front cover, posters of more diverse bands, by filtering the images and creating a soft focus effect on the images, clearly establishing the different music genres. However, I did include quite a lot of bands from the alternative genre, such as Green Day and blink-182 to attract my target audience.