1. Emma Riddiough
Q2. Evaluation
I believe that I have represented my particular social groups (35 years plus), through
my front cover image; the actual person and article that I've interviewed for my
double page spread; and my completed contents page.
The attitude of my front cover image that I chose, helps me to reflect the
attitude of the audience, as people who express themselves as being laid-back.
However, the body language and actual clothing the front cover artist as well, also
conveys the laid-back attitude as well. The gender of my chosen front cover artist,
helps to identify the type of gender who would be most willingly interested, in
buying an easy-listening magazine genre as well; e.g. male. The background of my
magazine front cover also helps to express the age group of my target audience; the
circles getting smaller and smaller gives the view of going back in time, as does the
chosen colour of purple.
As for my magazine contents page, I have represented various social groups
throughout the whole of my creation, in both my images and my regular/feature
articles. I have used images in which consist of the Liverpool Front Scene, and people
of a young generation, as well as images such as records and other musical items,
found in the earlier generation as well. As for the articles, I have used artists that
both the younger and older generations have either known, or heard of, making it
available and appealing towards both social groups. However, the colours that I used
for my contents page may appeal more towards older social groups, especially when
the colours are black, brown, or white.
My double page spread article background also helps to convey my magazine
genre. This is because my background gives me, as well as the readers, the idea that
for this particular article is 'laid back', as is the person I interviewed. Also, the
particular types of questions that I did ask John were quite formal and personal
towards him, which resulted in my article being in question form, instead of being an
actual article. The photograph that I used for double paged article, helped to
represent my target group as well as others, by showing just how far the article that I
wrote went back, and if I were to expand on my other cover lines, how far they'd go
back as well.
The font style that I also used also expressed what social group I intended to
do my magazine for; e.g. Century/Century Gothic, Times New Roman, etc.