Question 5- AS Media Evaluation

1. How did you attract/address
your audience?

2. Before creating my magazine I did a
questionnaire to find out what my audience
wanted from my magazine.

3. After looking through the results it allowed me to
create my magazine catering to my audiences
needs. For example, I could see that several
answers came back from
‘What artists would you like to appear in my
magazine?’
that they would like Ben Howard and The Vaccines
to feature somewhere in my magazine, so this
then led me to putting them as cover lines on my
Front Cover.

4. My articles on my contents page were also the
result of my audience feedback, so this another
way I have addressed them.

5. I used my Masthead on the front cover
to attract my audience as ‘Cult’ means a
group of different/’individual’ people
which is what ‘indie’ stands for and also
a group of people is what the music
industry caters too and is all about and a
cult also have rivalries which also links
to music industry and its other magazine
competitors. My models clothing and
props on the cover also attract to my
audience as her t-shirt is minimalistic
but her trousers are a bold statement
piece of clothing which would connote
her individuality and quirky style which
appeals to the ‘indie’ social
group/genre. The guitar is an instrument
that is key to most music bands and
songs but also many indie bands play
acoustic with their guitar so I feel this
further attracts to my audience.