The document summarizes how the media product, a rock music magazine, represents its target audience. It aims to appeal to rock music fans, particularly teenagers, through its content, design elements, and model choice. Key design features like font, layout, and color scheme are similar to existing rock magazines to signal the genre. Articles about concerts and competitions for tickets are meant to attract teenage readers interested in live music. Color and language choices also aim to appeal specifically to younger demographics. The cover model, a female portrayed in a rock-inspired style, is meant to challenge conventions while appealing to both male and female readers.

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5. My magazine represents a particular genre of music
and its content reflects the interests of a
certain group of people.
Therefore my music magazine would not be
bought by people who do not listen to rock music or
know of rock artists such as country lovers,
r&b or pop listeners.

6. My music magazine genre is rock. I made my magazine appeal to rock
lovers and people interested in the expressive and controversial manner
of rock music. I have created my magazine to be unisex which means that
there isn't a biased gender my magazine is trying to attract.
However, I think the majority of people buying my magazine would be
the teenage demographic as older generations may not have
an interest in this type if music, also this genre of magazine
generally uses colloquial language which would appeal to the teenage
demographic as oppose to an older audience.

7. FRONT PAGE
Here you can see distinct similarities between my magazine
and an existing rock magazine. For example, the white background, simple
but bold colour scheme, quirky masthead font and layout.
By having similar features rock fans would instantly know
what my magazine's purpose is and what genre it is as they can see this
with existing rock magazines. I have also used known rock artist
and bands such as Stone temples, Arctic Monkeys and Linkin
Park on the front cover lines which will attract my audience as
they would be likely fans of them. This represents a stereotype
towards teenagers as they are known for obsessing
and fangirling over celebrities.

8. I have included in my contents page articles and content which would
interest my my audience such as competitions to win tickets to festivals and
gigs that rock artists would be performing. I have don’t this so that the
content of my magazine appeals to my target audience as
when researching my audience profiles I found that a lot of their interests
were festivals and gigs where they could see their favorite rock
artists perform live. Therefore this would grab their attention as they
could be in with a chance of winning tickets to these events. I also know
that the majority of my target audience would be teenagers and
students therefore they would have little money and would be
attracted to the chance of winning free concert tickets and also the use
of colloquial language would appeal to the teenage demographic.
CONTENTS PAGE

9. The colours I used throughout the front page and contents page were,
yellow, red, black and white. These colours are fairly gender neutral so would
appeal to both genders. The reason I used the colour yellow is because it
is a bright and fun colour which I wanted to that to
reflect the ethos of my magazine and also it is not seen as a particular
gender orientated colour and therefore would appeal to males as well as
females. I also chose this colour scheme of yellow, black and
white because when asking my target audience what colours they
would most like my magazine to be this was the most popular
colour scheme and thus I wanted to give my audience what
they wanted as this would make the magazine appeal to them.
COLOUR SCHEME

10. MODEL
My main model is a girl which will appeal to both genders as the males
will be attracted to her while the girls will aspire to her. Moreover, I chose
to use a female model because I wanted to challenge the typical
convention of rock magazines that I found when researching existing
rock music magazines, which was that the cover artist was usually male.
I think the fact I have used a female will make it more appealing as it is different
from the usual rock magazine. By making my model wear a black tank
top and black eye liner it reinforces the typical features of rock
artist appearances but also the black clashes with the bright colour of
her hair making her appear fierce and interesting. This is enhanced by
her pose as she is looking straight at the camera and her body is angular making
her seem fierce and in control. I chose my model because
her look is very rock inspired andher fierce poses will make my
audience aspire to be independent and expressive as she is.