Question 5: Addressing the Audience

How did you attract/address your audience?

I attracted my audience through the front cover using typical magazine conventions. These were using the model as a guide for my cover lines and kickers. I think my masthead gives off the impression that the magazine belongs to all genres as this is not the thing that stands out most on the page. Also with my model being in similar colours to the colour theme makes her stand out yet still blend in as it doesn't look like I have just a random image, this also makes the reds and yellows stand out more as the colour theme is just simply black and white with yellow and red drawing you into the more important things.  With 'Exclusive' being in yellow it makes it stand out the most again the black and white which draws in the audience suggesting that this is a one of interview and 'inside' suggests that there in more to the magazine than what is on the cover. The most important thing on my magazine I think is the model as this is the main thing that overlaps the masthead and is also has white space so that it stands out more. This is important as you don't want to do a feature article and then it not to be recognised before everything else. Plus this also makes everything else stand out as the audience will want to know what else is in the magazine apart from the main article. The type of language used on the front indicates what my magazine will contain and will also draw my audience in to the specific article. With the language being informal and quite basic yet a little complex aims for the older teens which were my target audience.

On my double page spread I have kept the same colour scheme to indicate that the pages are from the same magazine and also used red to make each question stand out and that the audience can see the difference between the question and the answer. I think this is a vital part of a written interview as the audience can see the question they are wanting and go straight to it instead of have to look through to see if the question has been asked. Another important thing on the article is the pull quote as I have used this as a banner type to make less white space but I think this works well as the audience can see clearly the pull quote as it stands out and also this acts like a sub heading for the headline. The coloured picture stands out against the rest if the article as this is the only thing in colour but also draws the audience to the text as it in the centre.

For my contents page I have included the uk top 40 as this is what my magazine is about and will draw in the audience to see each week what the top 40 is. Again the colour theme is repeated and the red banner around the top 40 indicates to the audience what the most important thing on the page is. for the photography I have used most real life concert images that I had taken to engage the audience further as this shows that they are all connected through music.