1. Question 5.
How did you attract/address your audience?

2. How did you attract/address your audience?
To attract to my audience I made my front cover page very
feminine and gave it a very girly feel. By deciding to use a
young female as the dominant image for my front cover I
thought it would attract my audience as they would look up
to her like an idol and that’s what teenage girls see pop stars
as today. As there isn’t many pop magazines out there today
I realised I had to make it different and fresh which is why
I decided to give it a more sophisticated look using soft
colours instead of bright colours making it look tacky. I kept
the layout of the cover simple not giving to much information
and simply keeping the image at one side of the page and the
main headlines at the other, listed clearly. I knew I had to
address my audience appropriately so the language I decided
to use is very simple and language that would relate to them
such as ‘shocking’ which would draw there attention straight
away because they would want to know what it was that was
so shocking.

3. I think that my contents page would appeal well to my
audience because of the features, reviews, stories and extra’s
I have used. For example ‘Pop stars on dates’ would appeal to
them massively because it’s the type of thing that teenagers
want to know and would want to buy a magazine to find out.
Along with headlines such as ‘How to get Pixie Lotts look’ and
‘10 ways to Tinie Tempah’s heart’. As Pixie Lott is a well
respected artist who is also a fashion icon for teenagers they
would be WANT to get Pixie Lotts look. Tinie Tempah is an
artist who the teenage girls would fancy and has a massive
fan base so to find out ways to his heart would interest my
target audience. Again I decided to keep the house style the
same which is simple but bold and keep a dominant image of
a female again who is dressed fashionable to interest the
female readers. I decided to keep to the house style so that
the readers feel like they know the magazine and would get
used to it and it becomes recognisable. I haven’t used any
language that would complicate the readers and have kept
the language young addressing the correct audience.

4. I think my article attract my audience well by the fonts I have used with are bold to
draw my audience in with the bold text. I decided to do some of the quotes in italics to
make them stand out so that the readers read them first and want to read the rest of
the article. I decided to chose specifics quotes that I think would address my audience.
For example ‘Cher Lloyd has no swagger’ Cher Lloyd is well known so the audience
would know her straight away and the term ‘Swagger’ is slang used by teenagers so
they would address what it means straight away. The quotes are pretty outrageous so I
think it would draw the readers in to find out what else the new artist has been
saying. The title is the artists name and I decided to do it in capitals and bold to make
the artist come across as important because her names up in big. Also it goes well with
the house style I have used for my media product again making the readers
comfortable with the magazine. The image’s I decided to use are very happy, friendly
and pretty pictures of the audience so she
comes across as this friendly person but
with attitude with the way she is stood with
her hand on her hip. The artist looks
confident in the images which goes well
with the language I have used her saying.
From the reactions I got from the article I
think I have attracted and addressed my
audience.