Evaluation question 4

Evaluation question 4

• 2.
  Based on myresearch for my target audience, I came to the conclusion that my magazine would be aimed at people aged between 18-35 because I feel that at the age of 18, most people will have a job and will be able to pay for my magazine and at this age, they will be interested in all things included in my magazine, I feel that at the age of 35, they will start to have more important things in life rather than reading music magazines and that is why I have targeted 18-35 year olds (both males and females). I have also based my target audience on people who enjoy buying new clothes, socialising with people, enjoy social media, concerts/ festivals. Also I have noticed that people who are 18 years or over may be willing to travel to go to big festivals and most people who are 18 years or over have the money to do so with a group of friends and that is also a reason why I have chosen the age 18-35. when turning 18, a lot f people will go to university and make more friends and they will all go out drinking at clubs/ bars and at clubs and bars it is my genre of music that gets played, it isn’t something like ‘indie’ music that gets played at bars and clubs. My genre of music sounds good when it is played out really loud and that is why they are played at clubs and bars and that will also attract people to enjoy my genre of music that I have chosen for my magazine. More people get ‘addicted’ to this genre of music when going out to clubs and bars when drinking with friends because they enjoy the loud music. After people finish university and graduate, they may feel they want to go abroad to celebrate and want to go to a big festival and a festival such as Coachella or Tomorrowland may be in their minds because they enjoy my genre of music and my genre of music gets played a lot at those types of concerts. As they will have just graduated they won’t mind spending money to go all the way to America to go. Also I have stopped at the age of 35 years old because they will have other things to do rather than go out with friends, go on holiday with friends etc. I feel my genre of music gets listened to more once people start hearing it being played really loud in a club/ bar. The sales to each gender may differ each month as the artist on the cover of my magazine may determine whether they buy the magazine that month or not.
• 3.
  I had tokeep my audience research in mind when designing my magazine to ensure it fitted my genre style and also met with the interest of the target audience. I had to ensure that my artist ‘James Tagger’ was styled/ modelled appropriately to make sure he matched the clothing styles of my chosen genre, this would allow my target audience to be related to my magazine. As my artists’ hair is long I had to style it so that his hair style didn’t look too ‘indie’ and I feel I did that quite well as I styled his hair to be simple but also look good. I styled my magazine so that it was simple, yet eye- catching because that also matches with my target audience. They layout of my overall magazine is very simple but the pictures and colour scheme is very eye grabbing and that is what I wanted from the start. I know that there are already some really popular R&B, Hip Hop, Rap magazines but I feel these are the types of magazines that catch peoples eyes, mine is also a little different to current magazines of my genre as I have mixed aspects of different magazines together to give my magazine a unique look. I didn’t include much on my magazine as I wanted to keep it simple yet eye- catching, my layouts for all pages are fairly simple but I feel they are very effective and also look good.