To attract a young adult audience, the author focused on bold layout and design elements. On the front cover, a black and white photo with red lips draws attention, while bold yet highlighted text is easy to read. References to popular artists like James Bay and The 1975 indicate the magazine's genre focus. The contents page uses minimal design with one large image and two text sections for symmetry and appeal. The double page spread follows music magazine conventions with a large artist photo and initial, while clearly defining each section and balancing text and images. It also includes the unique addition of the artist's top five musical preferences. Overall, the magazine adapts established ideas but adds new elements to make it unique and appeal to its target demographic.

1. Question 5- How did you attract/address your audience?
 To appeal to my target audience of young
adults I made one of my main focuses the
layout of the pages.
 For my front page especially I wanted the
design aspect to be really effective and bold.
 This is why I converted the main cover
image of the featured artist to black and
white with the feature being the red lips as I
think this is really effective in drawing the
reader’s attention.
 I also think that the text on my front cover
would appeal to my target audience also
due to the fact that it is really bold but
some phrases are highlighted.
 This would make the text easy to read and
understand even if they are just scanning
the front cover.

2.  Also, for my front cover I think I appealed to the target audience through the
artists whose names I mentioned.
 Artists such as James Bay, The 1975 and All Time Low I think clearly indicate
what sort of magazine this is and which genres are the main focus of the
publication.
 As well as this I think that the price also is a fair amount to pay for the
audience I am aiming at. The price I went for was what I thought the
magazine was worth on top of what I think my audience of young
adults/teenagers would be willing to pay.
 I also thought carefully about which articles I would reference on the front
cover as from experience I think they are what actually draw people to a
magazine.
 By including references to interesting articles and things that teenagers
would want to read I think this would be more likely to make the publication
successful. When including text about a competition also I think this would
be quite effective. This is because the artists involved in the competition have
growing ‘fanbases ‘ many of which would be the target audience of my
publication.

3.  For my contents page I have appealed
to my target audience again through
the layout.
 I think the minimalistic design would
be more appealing than if the page
was completely covered with images
and text.
 By using one main image and a
supporting image I have
accompanied it by two main sections
of text.
 Overall, I think the image/text
cohesion is quite symmetrical and
therefore appealing to a greater
audience.

4.  For my double page spread again I have mainly followed the conventions of pre-
existing music magazines through the fact that one of the pages is filled up by an
image of the featured artist.
 Also, similar to Q Magazine I have adapted the idea to have the initial of my
featured artist bold yet faded below the text.
 I think the overall
layout would be
appealing to my target
audience as each
section is clearly
defined.
 I think the amount of
text in relation to the
images is also in
proportion with the
image and overall I
think it fits the page
nicely.

5.  Also, with my double page I have done something slightly different to the typical
conventions of music magazines.
 Instead of keeping the article as just an interview I added an extra section of text
titled ‘Skye Miller’s Top 5…’ with the musical preferences of the featured artist
included below it.
 I think this adds a new element to my double page and I think this subtle
difference would make the article overall more appealing to my target audience.
 I did this extra feature in order to allow the article to be more relevant to the reader
who can look at the feature and in turn relate to the artist.
 I think that overall the magazine appeals to my target audience on all three sections
as throughout I have adapted ideas from my sample publications and added them
to my own publication.
 By doing this I think that the reader would be able to recognise the publication as
an indie/pop/punk publication but I think my added different elements would
make the magazine unique.