1. Q5 – How did you
attract/address your
audience?

2. I attracted the audience to my pop music magazine mainly because of the bright
colour scheme that I have used. As it’s a pop magazine, I have used a variation of
bright colours such as Yellow, Blue, Pink, Purple and green. My research
questionnaire gave me results back that pink and purple were the most popular
colours that would address my target audience however, when I actually came to
producing my front cover the pink or purple didn’t stand out for the masthead on
the background I had chosen so I picked a bright yellow that stood out and still used
the pink and purple on the front cover. For the cover lines, I used different colours
for the text and then framed the text with boxes of different bright colours. I also
wanted to use catchy sub lines that would attract the audience so I thought I’d use
some of the artists songs to link in with the sub lines.
The main image would strongly attract the audience because it’s got a lot of bling
and would really attract the target audience as the image is very girly.
The price also would address to the audience because on the questionnaire most
people said they would pay between £1-50 and £3.50 so I therefore went in
between and chose £2.50 for the price of my magazine so I’ve kept it a simple cheap
price.

3. The contents page would attract the audience because I have again used a good
variation in the colour scheme as I have used a bright purple for the background.
I chose to use a black colour for the contents title on a bright pink block colour
strip. My images also stand out on the contents page which would strongly
address the audience because they would want to look through the magazine
and more into what the images are about. The yellow page numbers on each
image also stand out a lot and lifts the images on the contents page.
One of the images on the contents page is similar to the main image on the front
cover to show a new artist article. I have changed her outfit for the contents
image of ‘Halle’ to show the audience another bling image of the artist and to
attract them into wanting to read the rest of the article and magazine. I have
used 2 images from the same concert however put them into different articles in
the magazine to link all the images together and make it look more interesting.
Both my regular and feature content would address to the reader because they
both include pop artists that will appear to the audience. I have also used a
simple font throughout the contents page and all cover lines of the magazine.

4. The double page spread article attracts the audience because of the key story
line that I have used. From the questionnaire I had given out at the beginning,
Katy Perry and Rihanna were 2 of the most popular artists that attracted to the
target audience so I thought I’d somehow use them in the article and I created
an idea of a gig review of both artists’ latest tours and battle them out for who
wins the battle of having the better tour. I found fans that went to both tours
and interviewed them and then added their answers and opinions in the article.
The images also stand out on the double page spread because I have used 1
large image of Rihanna and 1 of Katy. I placed them at each end of the double
page spread and picked similar images of them that I had taken at both of their
tours.
For the colour scheme, I thought the pink colour that I used on the contents
page would stand out as the background colour with the title being white and
overlapping both images to link them together. I have used 2 different colours
within the actual interview on the article to show where I have asked the
questions and then another colour to show the answers as I thought it would be
simple and effective this way. I also used a drop capital but kept it the same
colour as the other font in the article.