3. Lesson Goals
ï Understand importance of identifying target audience
ï Know how a target audience can be categorised
ï Be able to identify requirements of target audience
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#ethnicity #income
4. Who is a target audience?
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5. Target Audience
Understand importance of audience
Be able to categorise the audience
ï Your target audience is the person or
group of people that the final product
will be aimed towards.
ï It is important to understand the target
audience before you can plan a project
for them.
ï Question: Why is it so important to
understand our target audience?
#target #audience
#ethnicity #income
6. What do you need to know?
Think about your target audienceâŠ
7. Target Audience
Understand importance of audience
Be able to categorise the audience
ï You can categorise your audience in the following ways:
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#ethnicity #income
8. Gender
Understand importance of audience
Be able to categorise the audience
ï Gender can be Male or Female and
certain things may appeal to each.
ï Think of the following:
ï What things do men like?
ï What things do women like?
ï What colours would each like?
ï What style or things do they like?
ï Extension:
ï What things do you think would appeal
equally to males and females?
#target #audience
#ethnicity #income
9. Age
Understand importance of audience
Be able to categorise the audience
ï Age could be specific to a certain group
or cover a range such as 11 to 16.
ï Think of the following:
ï How would you plan for children?
ï What will appeal to teenagers?
ï How about adults?
ï What about elderly people?
ï Extension:
ï What things would appeal equally no
matter what age the audience are?
#target #audience
#ethnicity #income
10. Ethnicity
Understand importance of audience
Be able to categorise the audience
ï This is the group that people may belong
to because of their background ancestry
or the culture they belong to.
ï Think of the following:
ï How does ethnicity impact on planning?
ï Can we target a particular ethnic group?
ï Extension
ï What can we do to make sure we donât
offend any particular group?
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#ethnicity #income
11. Income
Understand importance of audience
Be able to categorise the audience
ï How much money somebody has from
their wages which they may be able to
spend on things.
ï Think of the following:
ï Which people have a high income?
ï Which people have a low income?
ï Extension
ï How does income affect someone's
ability to buy a product?
ï How would this influence someone
planning a product?
#target #audience
#ethnicity #income
12. Location
Understand importance of audience
Be able to categorise the audience
ï This refers to the place where somebody
lives or spends most of their time.
ï Think of the following:
ï What would people from towns like?
ï How about people from the country?
ï What do people who live in a city like?
ï Extension
ï Is there a difference between the things
people like in the North and South?
#target #audience
#ethnicity #income
13. Accessibility
Understand importance of audience
Be able to categorise the audience
ï This category is about making sure a product
is planned to be available to as many people
as possible.
ï Think of the following:
ï What kind of disabilities may people have?
ï How would these disabilities affect them?
ï Extension
ï How can you ensure something you plan is
accessible by all people?
#target #audience
#ethnicity #income
14. Your Task
Understand importance of audience
Be able to categorise the audience
ï Explain who a target audience
is when planning a product.
ï List the following categories
and explain each in detail:
ï Gender
ï Age
ï Ethnicity
ï Income
ï Location
ï Accessibility
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#ethnicity #income
15. Key Words
ï Target Audience
ï The person or group of people you
are designing a product for.
ï Ethnicity
ï A group a person may belong to due
to their background ancestry.
ï Income
ï Money someone will get regularly
through their wages or other ways.