1. Question 5 – How did
you attract/address
your audience?

2. I had to bare in mind about my target audience so I used bold,
bright colours to attract their attention. At first I was aiming
my magazine at both boys and girls but after researching pop
magazines, they were mainly bright colours and boys tend to
go for rock magazines or magazines with dark colours. So I
then changed to attract girls. By doing this I decided to use
feminine colours such as pinks, purples, blues. The colour
scheme went well with the picture as I changed the contrast to
make it brighter and more appealing

3. For my fonts, I used a simple one as I didn’t want to make it
too fancy or too rock ‘n roll for my design. I made the title of
my magazine bigger than the rest of the writing because then
it will appeal more to my audience when it is on the shelf in
the shops. I didn’t do any fancy design on my title as I looked at
other magazines such as ‘Q’, ‘NME’ and ‘Vibe’ and they do not
have any fancy design and sometimes, simple is best. For this
issue, I wanted to make it a ‘special’ issue which would draw
the audience in more. By doing this, I put it to the side of my
title so it would be visible. I also made it italic so it would be
different from the rest of the cover

4. On front of other magazine covers, they have well-known artists to
draw their audience in. On the side of the cover, I add sub-
stories for example ‘Lady GaGa, is she running out of ideas?’ and
‘Rihanna, is she going in the wrong direction?’ I decided to add
these artists because they are in the chart at the moment and
are always in the news so it would appeal to my audience.
For my double page spread, it has come across as a friendly, girly
chat as if between two friends but I think this will appeal to the
readers because it is a laid-back conversation rather than a
interview between two strangers. I added a small paragraph
before the interview to introduce the artist beforehand. I also
added in subtitles for example, ‘I sat and cried. Then I ran into
the pool’ and ‘I’ve Googled myself. Everyone does it!’. I added
these to make the readers to want to read on. I also made the
font to curve around the pictures so it would flow smooth on
the page