QUESTION 5How did you

attract/address your audience?

For the front cover, I attracted my audience by using direct address. My front cover image attracts the reader as it is focusing directly ahead. My use of the black and white image portrays what my magazine is about. The girl in my image has dark hair and dark makeup and her close are quite plain but they have a sense of rock in them as the jacket is worn out. All of these small details that I made to my image really add to the whole theme of my magazine. It shows the darkness and mystery within indie/rock music. It is indie and deeply personal to each artist, I wanted to capture this within my front cover image. It attracts the reader to want to look further; the darkness of the image creates mystery and intrigue. Although my image portrays a mysterious look, my genre is also fun and exciting so my colour scheme was a mixture of black, white, red and yellow. These colours are associated with indie/rock and the majority of the time is what the reader will first notice, so you want it to be right to attract the correct target audience.

The masthead itself will attract the reader because of the word, ‘indite’ means to write or compose, it is quite an unusual and individual word that I think will attract my audience because it will create further intrigue. As for my contents page it attracts the audience because there are several images that have connotations to rock and artists that I have wrote about in my contents. It is full of text but not too much to make it look crowded. This will attract the audience that are interested in this genre of music. The regulars and features are in separate columns with the same colour scheme as my front cover. However I have used various borders and outlines on my contents page as it is mostly full of text I wanted to make the more important and interesting text stand out to attract the audience even more. The overall layout of my contents page is easy to follow I did this so my audience will be attracted by it as they are of a younger audience.

My double page spread has an immediate attraction towards my target audience because on the first page I have a black and white image of the band, which will interest my target audience. My colour scheme is blue black and white which also relates to the bands logo. The image of the band is on the first page as it will immediately stand out and the added effect of black and white which I have used looks quite dark which associates with the genre of indie/rock therefore interesting my audience further. My article stands out also because it is of a different background colour that my image, immediately separating them but making them both individually eye-catching. Each question is about the band and the indie/rock industry which the target audience for this magazine will have a deep interest in. The title is large and it bleeds across the two pages which makes it stand out but it also shows that band isn’t too formal and that the magazine isn’t too formal either. It shows that my magazine is a fun and easy read magazine as it is what my target audience would want as they are of a younger generation.