The document discusses how an indie music magazine represents its target audience. It aims the magazine at teens and young adults of both genders who enjoy indie music. It believes this group will be drawn to the magazine because it includes content familiar to readers of other indie magazines, like bands, festivals, and conventions. The magazine displays conventions typically seen in indie magazines, like types of content, layouts, and colors, to make it feel familiar to indie readers. Images of a young female model were used to help readers of both genders relate to the target age range. The model is also dressed in indie clothing styles.

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5. I aimed my magazine at the younger generation for
both females and males who enjoy and embrace the
indie style. I believe that this group of people would
enjoy my magazine because it includes indie rock
bands, festivals and gigs where they can hear this
music live and also conventions which are shown in
popular indie music magazines currently therefore
familiarity would draw them towards my magazine.
Even though my magazine is targeted for people
who like indie music, it can also interest others and
read by them.

6. I believe that my indie music magazine represents my target
audience of teens and young adults of both genders because
of the conventions I used, the contents of my magazine and
the style. My magazine displayed the typical likes of indie
music listeners, for example indie bands and festivals. My
magazine also included only bands classed as indie which is
what I wanted as this was going to be a magazine which
could help readers find only indie bands and events here. I
used typical layouts from indie magazines for each of my
three pages so that if would be familiar for indie readers and
everything would be in the traditional place. The colours
were also seen in indie music magazines such as NME and
therefore this would be good familiar convention. Lastly my
images were of a young girl which was also typically seen in
music magazines in general so that they could relate to the
young readers. Therefore I believe my magazine represents
my target audience of male and female indie music lovers
really well.

7. The model which I used for my front cover,
contents page and double page spread was
appropriate for my magazine because she is
young and in y target audience boundaries which
would help relate to the readers and make them
want to read the magazine. Also the model is
dressed in indie clothing which could draw
readers in for fashion purposes. I used the same
model to be my artist throughout my entire
magazine even on small photos of her on the
double page spread, I used different images to
show her in a different way each time and this is
something I had seen in other indie music
magazines, the readers enjoy variety.