5. I addressed my audience by making sure that my work stood
out. I used a sans serif font in bold to make sure it caught the
eye of anyone who would have walked past it. This connotes
the boldness of the reader. I think the fact I have called my
magazine WTF! makes the magazine different from others, it
grabs the consumers attention. I suppose that the main focus
of my front cover is what our favourite musicians do when
they are not doing music. It is like a chance for the consumer
to see how their idols act outside of music, as well as having a
lot of music still integrated in the magazine.
6. The preferred reading of my magazine was that the people
wanted to read about their favourite musicians. They said that
they can go out and buy any magazine to hear about the latest
music and get free things. But with WTF! They get all this and
more, they get to hear about what their idols think of them.
People said that they could see the magazine selling because it
has the same trend as other magazines, it has the music, gig
dates, free posters etc. Some feedback was that the fact I used
red and black connotes rebellion, which was the message I
wanted to get across at the start.
7. An oppositional reading of my magazine was that people felt the fact I
didn’t focus enough on music. They said that from the front cover
they wouldn’t know that the magazine was based on music. This is
probably because I have just given the names of my models and said
they are being interviewed, maybe I should have wrote that they
were musicians to improve. This means that the audience I have
intended to go for may not notice my magazine with competitors if
they don’t see it is a music mag. Another opposing view could be
that the magazine is promoting rebellion, it’s not done intentionally
but when people think of this kind of genre, rebellion is often
thought of. So an aberrant reading of my magazine could be that it is
not fully understood as the right type. It needs work done on it to
make everyone fully aware that it is focused on music just as much
as the musicians themselves.
