1. Question 5 – How did you
attract/address your audience?

2. My product can be compared to magazines such as Billboard and Blender. All products have a similar audience
appeal, in the way they design their products. For example they all present similar types of audience through
styling. For example on my products the models are dressed very mainstream and wear typical outfits which can be
be seen often on the high street. This is how models are presented for these magazines, as very relatable to fans.
The fonts also represent this pop audience, they are quite quirky and bold and the whole presentation of the
magazine is very clean to represent this pop genre and attract my mainstream audience. This is consistent
throughout my product. The poses of my models also relate to my audience as they make them look very friendly
and they appear like pop artists. This matches these magazines as they present their models this way in order to
match their style of music. In light of my original audience research it told me that to create a magazine of this
genre I would have to have a very clean looking magazine and models that also have a clean cut image so that they
can’t be misinterpreted for another genre such as rock. I didn’t necessarily challenge other texts I just developed on
from them, this way I could to still be similar to their products in terms of appearance and stylization however I
could adapt their ideas to my product.

3. Roughcuts and Final Products

4. There have been numerous changes between my rough cuts and final products as
shown in the slide below. With regards to my front cover and contents page there has
been noticeable changes. I feel that my final product looks much more
professional, replacing the cheap looking pink background with the white. I also
represented my genre much better in order to appeal to my target audience by using a
different main image, it gives the model a lot more personality reflecting her style of
music. The sell lines have also been presented much clearer and look very clean on the
page again which allows me to appeal to my mainstream audience. Overall I feel my
front cover does appeal to this audience as it can fit to a wide mainstream audience
rather than a specific niche market. My contents page had the most noticeable change
as it completely changed layout, I felt it would appeal to my target audience much
more as it looks a lot quirkier and fun which can appeal to my wide mainstream
audience. Also the use of the models placed where they are on the white background
again gives my magazine that consistent clean finished look. With regards to my double
page spread there has not been a lot of recognizable change, the layout is very similar
to my rough cut. This is because I already felt it would appear to my target
audience, again with the consistent clean layout and the styling of the model matched
the mainstream audience well as the model is styled like a typical chart artist. The font
on the title of my double page spread also works well for my audience, it is visually
interesting and again looks very quirky and fun matching my pop genre that I wanted
my magazine to appear in order to attract my mainstream audience.