The document discusses how a magazine cover and article can provide gratification to audiences through personal identity, personal relationships, and diversion or escapism. It argues that audiences may identify with artists on the cover if they feel similarities. Readers can also discuss what they read with friends, building relationships. Additionally, images allow audiences to relate to people in them and decide if they want to emulate them. The magazine overall allows readers to escape from reality when reading.

1. The audience can form a The bold blue splash and mast
personal identification head is eye catching and would The splash attracts the
with the two other artists attract the audiences attention audience as they feel
as they may think they when buying it. that they want to win
have something about the competition so will
them that the audience buy the magazine.
will aspire to be or have.
The audience can gratify
You can form a themselves through personal
personal identity with identity with the artist. They
the article as you may may aspire to be like or not
aspire to have the like the artist and they
same mindset as the therefore gain an identity
artist that said it. with them.
They may also feel a The gradient adds a
personal relationship smooth effect to the
because they can talk magazine that makes it
about the article with relaxing to read and all the
their friends after conventions to stand out.
they have read it.
Lastly, it is a form of
surveillance as they The whole magazine gratifies the This is the front cover of my
are learning audience through diversion as it magazine. Here I have spoken
something by reading lets them escape from everyday about the uses and gratifications
the article. life. that it supplies to the audience.

2. Through the magazine there are features that attract the self actualisers (geodemographics)
by: building relationships between the artist on the cover and the reader because the my
feel they can identify with him and then they may believe they have a relationship. But not a
physical one – more based on similarities. They also have topics to discuss with their friends
which further builds relationships therefore resulting in them being sociable which is how
they are most commonly known and portrayed.
The magazine attracts the esteem seekers that it aims too through the images that are
used. They can form personal identity and aspire to be like any of the artists in the
images on the front cover. They therefore create targets for themselves and have
people to aspire to be like which is what they are portrayed to commonly do.

3. The images provide the The gradient again adds a smooth effect to
audience with personal the magazine that makes it relaxing to The splash with the free
identity as they can relate read and all the conventions to stand out. download makes the
to them and decide if they audience feel privileged
would aspire to be anything to be receiving
like the artist. People can something free, this will
especially identify with the attract them into buying
artist if they feel they can the magazine.
relate to the instruments The whole magazine can
that he is playing. It may be spoken about after
give them higher being read with friends
aspirations as it will make and peers therefore the
them feel similar to him reader will gain personal
and possibly as if they can relationships.
be like him.
The information and The reader will feel
images gratify the familiar with the
audience with diversion commonly known artist
because as they look at it here and I think this will
they will escape from the make them more
realism of everyday life. It comfortable when seeing
also gives surveillance as this page therefore
The competition will attract the attracting them to read
it provides them with
audience cause it may be something it.
information.
that they would really love to get.

4. The quote can provide the audience with The big H grabs The mast head grabs the
personal identity as they may agree or the audiences audiences attention (bright
aspire to agree. attention. and bold).
It can also All of the
provide them information
with personal in the article
relationships gratifies the
as they have audience in
something to the same
talk about way as the
with their quote (top
friends, left so slide).
whether they It provides
agree or not surveillance,
maybe? personal
Lastly, it identity and
provides personal
surveillance as relationship.
it gives
information.
The whole magazine allows the reader to
The images gratify the audience with personal form escapism. When reading this page
identity as they may feel that they can relate to the they escape from everyday life and think
person in the image or might want to be or not to only about what they see.
be like them. They will gather an opinion.