How did you attract/address your audience?
In order to attract my audience I had to consider the age range for my magazine. The age range is 16-27 year olds. My magazine has potential to be a non-gender specific magazine. However with a girl on the front cover the magazine only attracts the female gender. The main part of the magazine cover is the bold masthead. It is the first thing that is seen as it is at the very top of the magazine which sells the magazine, but also is seen clearly on shelves. By having the font reasonably large, black and bold, against the neutral background it is very prominent. In some other ways the model can also attract my audience, as I dressed my model in a similar style to the audience’s style and the genre of the magazine. I made sure that the model was facing directly into the camera, as if they were enticing the readers to buy the magazine. By having my artists name on the front cover it allows the audience to indentify her and they will know that this issue will feature some sort of interview starring ‘Rosa Leigh’. In the double page spread I thought it was important to include some pull quotes that were rather gossip-like, making the interview seem very personal to the reader.
In order to attract my audience I had to consider the age range for my magazine. The age range is 16-27 year olds. My magazine has potential to be a non-gender specific magazine. However with a girl on the front cover the magazine only attracts the female gender. The main part of the magazine cover is the bold masthead. It is the first thing that is seen as it is at the very top of the magazine which sells the magazine, but also is seen clearly on shelves. By having the font reasonably large, black and bold, against the neutral background it is very prominent. In some other ways the model can also attract my audience, as I dressed my model in a similar style to the audience’s style and the genre of the magazine. I made sure that the model was facing directly into the camera, as if they were enticing the readers to buy the magazine. By having my artists name on the front cover it allows the audience to indentify her and they will know that this issue will feature some sort of interview starring ‘Rosa Leigh’. In the double page spread I thought it was important to include some pull quotes that were rather gossip-like, making the interview seem very personal to the reader.
Do you only buy a magazine if the artist is the same gender as you? I do understand that your magazine features an attractive female on the cover and within the contents page but you would probably feature males on your cover in the next/future edition? Comment on the male gaze/chocolate box theorries here too.
ReplyDeleteI agree that you have created role models rather than 'eye candy' for male readers, though!