Evaluation Activity 5.

How did you attract/address your audience?

Throughout the making of my music magazine, I gathered different ideas from many other real music magazines. This helped me to gather what sort of things attract people to music magazines, to make sure that my music magazine appealed to my target audience. By looking at other music magazine I got a clear idea of the typical conventions of magazines.

To make my magazine appeal to my target audience, I made sure that my magazine had an appealing main artist. So on the front I placed a picture of my 'special interview' artist, which would attract people to read about her. I also made sure that I had appealing stories on the front about what else I was in my magazine. For example I had headlines of 'JLS BACKSTAGE TOUR ENCOUNTER.' The aim of this was that JLS are a well known group, and so people would be intrigued to read about them. I found that all magazines do this, and so it is clearly a typical convention to attract people to the magazine.

I also wanted to attract young people who are into R&B style music, and so I made sure that I had plenty of stories about R&B music artists and groups on the front cover and also in my contents page, so people know what is in the magazine and would want to read it. The genre of my magazine is R&B and so that should attract my target audience.