AS Media Evaluation

Rebecca Black

Question 4

• Who would be the audience of your media product?

Typical reader Overview• People who would generally read my magazine would be around 16-25 year olds and the reason why I

know this is because this is my target audience and have done a lot of research into how to engage the audience of this age range and of my music magazine genre.

• The gender of my magazine would be woman as this is my target audience however when doing some research into what people might want to put into my magazine it was a 50, 50 split of men and woman who would be interested in my magazine. But for my magazine I wanted to appeal to the female audience more rather than the male audience and I have tried to do this by using artist which would stereotypically appeal more to woman and in my article I have used a more feminine approach to the questions.

• Also when researching what people would like to see in a magazine, I also asked how much people would be willing to may for a monthly magazine and their response was that people were willing to pay between £1-£5 for music magazine.

• Before making my magazine I had to think about what my audience would like, dislike and if it would fit in the conventions of a magazine. So now after creating my front cover, contents page and double page spread I thought I would ask people of the age range of my target audience to get some feedback and so after making sure I had was completely happy with the my magazine, I wanted to make sure that what I had created would appeal to my target audience if were to be printed and put into the 'real' world and so I posted a small paragraph explaining what the magazine was and how I wanted people to comment on the magazine to see if they liked it. I then got some feedback saying how much they liked the magazine and that they would buy if it were to be put in the media however I did get a comment about how they thought the contents page looked a little bare compared to the rest of the magazine but in response to this I had tried filling the gap and it made the magazine look over crowded, which messed with the professional layout of the magazine.

Question 5• How did you attract/address your audience?

To research my target audience and to find out what they really want in a media product I decided to go onto survey monkey and create a little survey. After looking at all the institutional research and the different magazines I realized the style of text I needed to include and use in my magazine for the main article. As it is not just the layout I needed to worry about, it was the actual content in the magazine and then decide what to use to appeal to my target audience by using mature language.

For my magazine the main target audience for my magazine would be young woman however from using the survey before actually creating my magazine this shows that I have a wider range of an audience and they would actually be interested inn what I am going to create.

This shows a brief inside view of what people like to listen to and it shows that at least from this list I would have 18.2% of people who has completed this survey that they would at least be a little bit interested in reading my magazine as the genre for my magazine is R&B and from this list it shows that I have niche in the magazine industry for this style of genre.

This part of my survey shows that I have a market for people who listen to my genre also would be interested in reading my magazine.

This shows that my target audience does read magazines and my magazine that I have created gets distributed on a monthly bases, which the majority of the people in this survey actually read magazines once a month so hopefully it will be my magazines that they read every month.