Question 5
- 1. QUESTION 5: HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE By Shauna Hughes
- 2. CONTENTS Introduction Front cover comments Contents page comments Double page spread comments Conclusion
- 3. To get some opinions about my magazine pages I created a closed group on Facebook which is a focus group. I am going to use these opinions o improve my magazine and make it appeal more to an audience. I have printed screened them and I am going to assess them.
- 4. These are the comments for my front cover of my magazine. My participants seem to like my magazine front cover I have had a lot of positive comments. For example the picture is bright and eye catching and is the main focus for my magazine. Other comments included the main cover line is also large and eye catching to the audience. From these front cover comments I had constructive criticism about how the colours do appeal to more male audience and that some parts of my front cover needs to fill the spaces. Overall these front cover comments will help me to improve my front cover of my magazine. FRONT COVER COMMENTS
- 5. CONTENT PAGE COMMENTS These comments are from my focus group about my contents page. I have overall got positive comments for example keeping the colour scheme consistent throughout my pages of my magazine. The layout is very popular with my focus group participants, which has worked well. My participants think my overall contents page is very interesting and also looks very professional. The improvements I need to do are to include more images or more text to fill up the blank spaces. Also maybe to include more images of what to expect inside. Overall the comments I have got will influence me to make my contents page better to attract more of an audience. I will take the constructive criticism and improve my magazine as my second draft.
- 6. DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD COMMENTS These comments are from my double page spread. My participants seem to like my double page spread how the band in my image is the main focus of my double page spread. The comments also say that the title of my double page spread is eye catching and bold and stands out to the audience. The improvements which my comments say are to put text boxes behind my magazine article as it will make the article more clear to read and stand out to the audience more. Also to make the kicker line larger and make it stands out more. Overall my comments I have from my double page spread will help me to create a second draft of as better double page spread. These comments will be very useful when constructing my second draft.
- 7. CONCLUSION To conclude my audience for my magazine is young audience of teenager and college students. I have made this decision as looking at my comments they seem to say it is for a younger audience and maybe for a more male audience rather than female. The comments which have been made I will take into consideration and input and improve my magazine pages with the advice I have got off people from the Facebook group.