The document discusses how the author attracted and addressed their target audience in their magazine design. They used provocative images of women on the cover to attract both male and female readers. Bright colors and large celebrity names were used to grab attention. A consistent 3-column layout was used throughout to provide structure and recognition. Large images of celebrities were featured to sell the artists and manipulate readers into purchasing the magazine based on interest in those artists.
3. In my central image I decided to feature flawless make up, hair
and fashionable, tight clothing. This ultimately attracts females
as they aspire to be as perfect as these image. However, the
females body language is rather provocative and the combination
of the body language with the tight clothing attracts and lures in
the male audience.
I chose puffs in order to immediately grasp the attention of my
target audience and draw them in. The bright colours which i
creatively chose to use for my puffs is beneficial as it amplifies
the design, drawing in more readers.
4. I decided it would be wise to enhance the text size of the high
profiled celebrities names, as it would lure in any fans of that
particular artist. Richard Dyer would see this as selling the artist
and the name rather than the item itself. If the audience is
interested in that artist there is also a very high possibility that they
are interested in the genre as well, therefore they will consider
purchasing this magazine.
My Masthead consumes 5th of my overall magazine front cover. My
reasoning behind this was that the audience usually buy the same
magazine over and over again. Therefore, if the reader enjoys they'd
recognize it by its outgoing, large name and it will also be easy to
find in stores filled with magazines.
6. Situated in the top right hand corner of my contents page is the
image of my front cover. This clarifies with the audience which
magazine or issue they have picked up. This can be extremely
useful when the reader is choosing a magazine to purchase in the
store and there is a large selections.
The other two images I have featured on my contents page are
more informal, this welcomes the reader into the magazine making
them feel more comfortable. My images consist of two females
getting read for a night out having a good time. This essentially
makes the magazine more relatable for the readers as this is what
the typical target audience does over a typical weekend.
7. The layout is consistent throughout all three pages. I have organised
the interior of my magazine to have 3 columns of writing. As you can
witness I have followed this through my contents page and double
page spread. M reasoning behind this was to follow the house style
through, which leaves me with a structured layout. The out come of
this is when the audience flicks through my magazine and sees this
layout they will automatically recognise it and associate it with the
name.
Finally I have also included some institutional presence at the
bottom right hand corner. This directs the audience to the magazines
webpage which allows them to subscribe to my magazine, or simply
find out more background information about the magazine.
9. In the bottom right hand corner you will notice a small image. This is
in fact the album cover which the article is in fact based on. This will
attract readers, if they have seen this album before they may be
interested to hear a little about it. If they however haven’t seen the
album before this will be useful in case they are interested in
purchasing the album after reading the article.
The pull quote is another characteriser designed to catch the
attention if the audience and tempt them into reading it. If you were
to read something which is very positive and intriguing it
automatically makes you want to read the article. This also give the
reader a slight indication to what the article is about.
10. Finally, the reason I chose such a large image which takes up to
almost a whole page is due to celebrity status. I have previously
mentioned the Richard Dyer theory before and here is another
example of it yet again. My magazine sells the artist rather than
the content, therefore it’s wise to feature large images to draw in
the audience. So for example if a reader was interested in my
magazine and picked it up and flicked through the pages, this
image would appeal to them, manipulating them to purchase my
magazine.
