Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience

• Must of my focus was on my front cover, this is because this is what will stand out most when people see it in shops and base their decision to buy a magazine on what it looks like the first time they see it.

• Although I have used quite dark colours to stick with the genre of the magazine, I have also used some yellows to highlight some important points as the bright colour will attract the reader to the magazine.

Having the price set as £1.90 attracts the audience as it is a reasonably low price to pay for a magazine that comes out every two weeks that contains a lot of things inside.The website also attracts the audience as they have more than one way of reaching the magazine as they can interact with Krash online

• The photo also has direct address as the artist in the picture is looking directly into the readers eyes and they feel like they have a connection and more inclined to buy it. The photo also has a symbol of a drum kit in it as the magazine is a music magazine and the artist is a drummer so this contrasts well together.

• The language I have used is also important to the social groups I am representing. I have used simplistic language and nothing to ambiguous or crude it aims at a wide range of people, it also makes the magazine seem more mature and language that everyone can understand and read.

• The cover lines will then make the reader want to buy it as they don't give away to much information and draw in the reader.

• I have also kept a degree of organisation to the page so the readers know what story is what and they aren't put off by busy, clustered page.

• The double page spread is relatable to the audience as it is a typical punk rock band and it is about how they are back on the music scene, something fans will be interested in. The title is also so blunt that it makes a point and makes the article sound interesting as the return indicates they have been somewhere so fans will want to know where they have been and why they have comeback.

The use of different pictures also attracts the audience as it is almost like a story of the duo in pictures and fans like too look at pictures of bands and not being serious and having a silly side to relate to fan base as they are real people

• By asking people in my target audience to vote on different things and have their opinion really mattered in the making of my magazine as if it didn’t go with what they wanted they wouldn’t buy it.

• I put up polls on my blog and when I was making the magazine I asked people how they think I should change things to make it more appealing to the audience so their was more than one opinion in the making of the magazine, although some of the responses was from people outside my target group it was beneficial as every opinion matters and helped me make a magazine that fulfilled expectations of target readers.