Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

My magazine attracts my target audience by the large and visible central image of a the music artist on the front cover. The model is 18 years of age which attracts a similar age group audience. He is wearing fashionable vintage clothing which could attract my audience as he is wearing trendy clothes, this is what a lot of my target audience are intrestes in because i am targeting trendy, fashionable teenagers.The audience that are in to music and fashion would be fascinated because they would be able to relate well with the artist.

I used the baseball hat on my model as a prop on the front cover to attract the audience as baseball hats can be associated with rnb and hip-hop. By having these props on show, not only do they tell the audience something about the group, who can play what instrument, but also each member can connect with actual musicians and their instruments.

The model is relatively attractive and well groomed – he has are a fresh haircuts and so would easily appeal to the female audience. who would take an interest to the model. However he would also appeal to males because they would be able to relate to the model as they are both males.

My magazine uses a sans-serif font to display its cover lines. This connotes the magazine and its contents being contemporary and is what the vast majority of my target audience wanted referring to my audience research, so this would attract my audience to my magazine. I also used a large bubble-writing font to be able to create a recognised brand logo so that it would clearly stand out on the front page, and for my audience to be attracted to it through its originality and positing which suggest that the magazine is proud of its brand, and so transfer this message to the reader and them being proud of reading the magazine also. Firstly this attracts the audience by giving a personal feeling to the reader as if they or someone else wrote on the magazine making it more informal and easier to connect with. Secondly the little smiley on the front page beside the word “TRADEMARKED”, is a device that I used to attract the audience through humour, and making them feel good through the smile. It also connotes that the magazine is happy that its brand is protected. Lastly, I chose a very bubble style font to act as the official font for my artist – Chris C.  Secondly, I placed it behind the models head using Photoshop.