Evaluation- Question 5

Evaluation 5
How did you attract/ address your audience?

When I first started producing my own music magazine I looked at other leading brand magazines codes and convention for the genre I had chosen. I noticed that my magazine needed to catch the audience’s attention by one quick glance like other published music magazines.
For my music magazine I chose to use both types of language; formal and informal language because I found that’s what was appropriate for this genre. I used informal text during the interview to make the interview seem more real and to seem like it was actually like them speaking.

On my front cover of my magazine I have used formal language because that is the type of magazine it is compared to rock etc where language like ‘hell’ is used which is informal where I have used appropriate text. I think the natural pose of the band on the front cover is formal because they look smart and sophisticated. I think the bright colour scheme makes my magazine formal because it does not seem like the colours stand for anything in particular compared to a black and red scheme. I also think my front cover will attract the audience because of the images; they meet the stereotype of boy singers/ artists. They have everything perfect and neat with the latest new styles.

 For my contents page yet again I think I have used formal language and images with natural poses and text. I personally do not think my audience would be instantly attracted to the contents as it is not full of colour, there are white patches. I tried in the contents page to attract my audience by following the codes and conventions of other chart music magazines and tried to follow a similar layout. Also there is a lot of information on the contents page that should catch the audience’s eyes.

My double page spread would attract my chosen audience because of the long interview with questions. In my article I have used informal language so it seems more real life and that it seems the typical language from a friendship young band group. If I used more sophisticated words it may not have seemed so real because of the age of the boys. I think the article would attract many readers because they can link it to maybe a situation they are in etc.