The document discusses how design elements of a magazine attract different audiences. It focuses on using black fonts and masculine models for the hip hop issue to attract boys, while also using girly fonts and colors like pink and purple to attract girls for the R&B content. Photos showing confident models in cool clothes and live concert shots are meant to appeal to teenagers. Strong colors like red and yellow are used on the cover to draw attention from the young adult target audience.

1. By Elisabeth E. Larsen

3.  The masthead on my magazine is big, black and written
in a groovy way.
It’s very simple
but at the same time interesting. The masthead is like
written to a rhythm.
 In this issue, is the masthead written in black, which
attract boys more than girls. It’s black in this issue,
because it’s a hip hop issue, and black makes the
magazine more masculine.
 The font that are used are funky and interesting, we can
believe the font is a girl font, because girls are more
known for writing pretty. If my magazine had been a plain
hip hop magazine, then the font would have been more
simple and plain. But since this is a R&B magazine as
well as hip hop, is the font written in a more girly style.
This type of loop writing attracts girls.

4.  To make my pictures attract to teenagers, have I used
masculine boys with a cool hip hop style as models.
Especially boys get attracted by the clothes the boys are
wearing, because the clothes are the audience’s style as
well. The models are posing in their own way, and it
looks like their having a good time and that they got self
confident. This attracts the audience because they look
safe and make the magazine look pro.

Here you see
Here you see the the masculine
confident facial clothes on the
expression. boys

5.  My photos attracts teenager girls because “the
Elements” got a seducing expression – this makes
girls/boys interesting in the magazine.
 The picture of Katy B attracts the
audience because the shot is taken
in a low angle shot. This means that
she gets the power and that she looks
confident.
The picture of her is taken from a live show, and we can
see that it’s taken from a wild show. Wild concerts are
usually something young adults attend. The audience
get the feeling of being in the concert when they see live
pictures. This attracts young adults and teenagers who
likes to listen to good music, dance and go to concerts –
aka my audience.

6.  My magazine contains typical girly colours, like pink and
purple. R&B are typical girly - and therefor does the girly
colours attract the audience.
 I said my audience are young, therefor will the strong
colours attract. Strong colours are typical young people
because it gives attention and look kind of wild.
 Red is a colour that refers to both female- and maleish. I
have used a lot of red on my DPS. My DPS is about hip
hop and two boys that are rappers. Therefor I would say
in this situation that red is a masculine colour. This
attracts the magazine’s audience.
Here is an example from the DPS in my
magazine. I have used yellow because it is
a strong colour. And the red, because it’s a
masculine colour in this setting.