How did you attract/address your audience?

Front coverMy target audience for my magazine are both males and females who enjoys mainstream chart music. A magazine of the same genre of my magazine that has a similar target audience is American music magazine Billboard. When producing my magazine I took into account some of Billboard magazines conventions and used some of their conventions in my magazine.I was inspired my Billboard magazines front cover main image of Taylor Swift as she is in the same position as my model but is wearing a different outfit to go with the magazines chosen colour scheme.For my music magazine I used a red and blue colour scheme as they are colours suited to both a male and female audience as they aren't to girly or masculine.The sell lines were on the left side of the page as people subconsciously read from left to right so I wanted my sell lines to be on the left side so they would catch peoples attention. The sell lines used relate well to the genre of the magazine and are what I believe would make my target audience want to buy the magazine so they could read about these articles.

Contents pageI carried on the red and blue colour scheme for continuity throughout my magazine as I this made my magazine appear more professional. I was again inspired by Billboard magazine for the layout of my contents page. I had a weekly chart featured on my magazine contain the current top 10 as my magazine is a mainstream chart music magazine so my target audience will be interested in what is going on in the music charts. I included images on my contents page to make it more visually attractive and not to simple and boring, however I didn’t want to clutter my contents page as I don’t think it really goes with my target audience and other magazines of the same genre such as Billboard and Blender don’t have cluttered contents pages, there contents pages are also clear and simple to read so this is how I wanted my contents page to be set out.

Double page spreadMy double page spread features a new mainstream girl group who release pop music, fitting with the mainstream chart music genre. I tried to make my double page spread look as professional as other magazines by using columns for my article and appropriate heading and I also carried on the colour scheme of red and blue because although it is a girl group featured I know males are still my target audience so I didn’t want to make the article to colour my using colours such as pink or purple. I included images of the featured artists but I wanted the images to be relatable to my target audience and not to over the top or ‘editorial’ as I want my target audience to be able to relate with the featured artists to make the article more appealing to read as they will feel like they can relate to the girl group.