Attracting an audience

I attracted my audience by using bright colours, bold fonts and a strong main image for my front cover. I framed my tag lines and enigma codes, on the front cover, around my main image to draw the audience attention towards the artist, her face especially. The eye-line the photograph portrays, makes the audience feel involved in my product and gives off message of confidence from the artist. 
I was very careful of how I addressed and attracted my audience. I made sure the colours weren't gender specific, however as this issue has a female on the cover, I believe it would be primarily females buying it. I created a questionnaire which was filled in by 20 students, to try and help me gain knowledge of my target audience and what they liked and disliked about magazine as well as what hobbies and interests they had.

I used the results of this to base the price, tone, genre and how often a month my magazine would be published. I felt this really engaged my audience and made me aware of their wants and needs. 

I also asked some other media students to give short feedback on my work and how to improve. I contacted them via the social networking site Facebook and these were the responses to my overall magazine;

 "I find the magazine really nice to look at and can tell straight away that the genre is Indie Rock. The colour green used for the Masthead is really striking and catches my attention straight away. I think it would stand out on a supermarket shelf." - Amy Cockton, 17.

"The contents page isn't packed full of information and is simple and easy to understand. I could confidently find the pages I wanted from the contents page. All of the images are really good." -Bethany Cogdon, 17.

"The layout of the double page spread is simple and effective. I like the three black and white photographs on the right page. The tattoo font gives off a real 'rock' image which fits well with the lifestyle the artist leads." - Rachel Ryan, 17.