My Audience

Attracting my audience

In order to attract my chosen audience of young students aged 15-24 I must ensure that my magazine has content and design that appeals to them. 

To do this I shall include:

• An artistic, cluttered design with dark colours.
• A double page spread on an in-depth interview with an upcoming indie musician and their new album.
• Grunge fonts and design.
• Sans Serif font.
• Lots of artists and music-related content.
• Pictures of band members and singers.
• Artsy design and decorative patterns to appeal to the artistic members of my audience.

On the right is a discontinued music magazine called 'The Fly' which was given out for free. On the right is a magazine that looks at fashion and style rather than music but is still Indie. From these two examples I can learn that the shot I use for my front cover does not matter as both use a different shot for the people on the front cover. One also uses fairly bright colours, contradicting my previous beliefs that dark colours had to be used. However 'The Fly' does use dark colours and is a music magazine, meaning I will most likely lean towards using darker tones. Both magazines contain little on the covers, with a small amount of text. The only text not relating to the masthead on the 'Indie' magazine is ' Oh I see' written in a handwriting font. On 'The Fly' however, there is slightly more text with the band name written in big, capital red letters and smaller text both above and below it.