Audience appeal

1. Lucy Allbut
Target Audience Appeal
Language: The language on this cover
appeals to the target audience as it uses
‘slang’ such as “fitties” which young teenage
girls generally use in their dialect. Other
examples of this slang are “crimbo”, and
“cringe”.
Colour: The use of colour on this cover
appeals to the target audience as they are
very feminine colours such as pink and light
blue. This is appealing as they are very bright
colours so make the cover exciting which is
something that young teenage girls would like
to read.
Images: The use of images on this cover
appeals to the target audience as they are
close ups of famous celebrities within the
music industry. This is appealing due to the
fact that this is a music magazine so the
readers will know who they are. Also, the
celebrities featured are ‘heart-throbs’ and are
who the young people have posters of on their wall as they are good-looking.
Content: The content of this cover appeals to the target audience as there are posters of
‘good-looking’ celebrities who have a fan base of young, teenage girls. Also, there are
interviews with male celebrities talking about
girls, relationships and other gossip. This is
what girls like to read so they are more likely
to want to buy the magazine.
Language: The language on this contents
page appeals to the target audience as
similar to the front cover, slang is used.
Examples of this is “mag” and “celebs”. Like
before, this is appealing because it’s the
same dialect as young teenage girls.
Colour: The use of colour on this contents
page appeals to the target audience as they
are bright, feminine and in a way, young
colours. Pink and yellow are associated as
female colours and are exciting which
makes it appealing for the young teenage
girls to read.
Images: The use of images on this contents
page appeals to the target audience as they
are close ups of famous celebrities within

2. the music industry. As stated above, teenage girls like these celebrities. Also, images of
fashion are included, this inspires a sense of fashion which is appealing to girls, especially
teenagers.
Content: The content of this contents page appeals to the target audience as it includes
sections such as “we love shopping” and “we love boys”. This is appealing to young,
teenage girls as they are stereotypically ‘topics’/’interests’ of teenage girls.
Language: The language used on
this double page spread is
appealing to the target audience
because it’s very positive with
phrases such as “woohoo”. This is
appealing because young,
teenage girls don’t want to read
something that’ll make then sad
and upset.
Colour: The use of colour on this
double page spread is appealing
to the target audience because
the main featured colours are
pink, purple and white which are
very feminine colours so will look attractive to the young girls. Also, as the celebrity featured
is also female, the colours match her persona.
Images: The use of images on this double page spread as they are relevant to the interview
so the young, teenage girls can relate to her. Also some of the images are of Taylor Swift’s
daily life so her fans can get an insight into it. Her fan base if the same as the target
audience which is why it is appealing.
Content: The content of this double page spread is an interview which gives information
about the featured celebrity who in this case is Taylor Swift. This is appealing to the target
audience because her fans have the same audience meaning they will enjoy reading about
her.