Question 5 to Evaluation

5.            How did you attract/address your audience?

To attract and address my audience I firstly thought about what appealed to me.

I looked at a variety of music magazines and highlighted those images, articles and feature that drew me in and made me want to read more. 

I noted that I was drawn to bright colours and images.

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I also found certain fonts easy to read. These are some of the fonts on different magazines I found, that make it easy to read.

In RS199, we step behind the scenes of one of the world’s hottest bands – All Time Low – as they teeter on the edge of superstardom. Elsewhere, Danny Worsnop talks We Are Harlot, Asking Alexandria and more, we hear about the songs that inspired Frank Iero and My Chemical Romance, and we dip behind the scenes on Architects’ biggest ever tour.

I also liked the double page posters that many magazines offer, which would appeal to me if my favourite musicians was in them.

My favourite articles were those were an artist talked about their life, their emotions and the obstacles they faced and how they overcame them.  This seemed to appeal to me most because at times, as a teenager going through new experiences, I sometimes feel that life is a challenge and I suppose reading these articles helped me to relate to the artist.

I wanted to capture all of these things within my magazine, but also to keep the cost of the magazine low.

In order to do this I would use resources that were cheap and easy to use.

I would ensure featured artists took a 'selfie' to be made into a poster.

I would ask featured artists to do either a live session or webchat or video recorded interview.

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I would also set up links with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.

As my magazine is about folk music I would attend many local free gigs and write about them on my blog so that my readers could find out more about the artists I was interested in or join me at the gig, meet me and buy my magazine.  I could then have a page of 'selfies' taken of me with readers of my magazine at gigs and upload these onto the magazine.