Media Studies Question 5

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

2. To address my audience I took inspiration from other magazines such as, INDIE and
NME. Their approach attracts the same type of audience I was aiming towards,
They use informal and differentiating techniques such as Q&A’s so I decided to
copy them in that aspect as I have seen that they were successful in reaching an
average age of 21/22.
My target audience is 17-25 year old, and therefore using NME and INDIE as a
similar approach would be beneficial for my media product.

3. Throughout the pages of my magazine, i tried to make it seem as though they were
involved with what was going on and so they have a say in what happens next, and
this allows for the audience to engage with the media in a more personal way. The
cover page has a bold heading and the R in Rebel is a different font to the rest of
the title, and magazine, which represents individuality, which is what my magazine
is trying to show.

4. The double page spread has a more fun and exciting image for the audience to
identify themselves with, this means that they will find the magazine fun and
exciting as the magazine itself also represents what the audience is like as a
person, it brings individuals together and allows them to be themselves and not
give in to society’s demands, which means that they will be even more attracted to
the magazine so they will hopefully buy the magazine, or at least borrow copies
from their friends that have bought them.

5. Within the contents page, I have included old and new niche artists so that they can
read about people they already know about, and so they can find newer artists that
they don’t know and possibly enjoy the new artists music as well as the old ones.
So even if the rest of the magazine doesn’t appeal to the reader it will attract them
to just find out more and more similar bands, singers, artists, and just read
interviews and find out about gigs, and news.