Evaluation: How did you attract/address your audience?

From the research I conducted I feel that my magazine has been quite successful as it fits into the genre of the magazine I tried to create very well. To attract the audience I used banners, sells, and pull quotes, I also used quite a bold colour scheme, however I used a colour scheme that through research I discovered was used a lot in this genre of music magazines. I used cover lines on the front also to advertise features inside the magazine. The images that I used would attract the audience as on the front cover I used a mid close up shot, with the same model on my contents and double page spread looking directly into the camera. I also used photos of 2 well known celebrities that you would associate with this genre on the contents page which would hopefully attract the audience as fans of their music would perhaps want to buy my magazine to read the features about them. 

                                                         

I asked a small group of 16 year old girls, several questions about my magazine, and how they thought it fit into my genre and for their opinions on several parts of my magazine. The general response was really positive as they said how my magazine resembled a pop magazine by the features I used in it, and the images that I used. They also particularly liked the use of the red white and black colour scheme, as they felt it help bring attention to the magazine as a whole. They also said how they liked how I used the same model throughout my magazine front cover, contents and double page spread to keep it looking consistent.  One thing that one of the girls thought I could improve on is the use of the columns in my magazine as I used  different columns on each page, so to make it laid out a bit better I could have used the same amount of columns on each page, this could be taken as an oppositional reading.  I was extremely pleased that they mostly took a preferred reading to my magazine, as it meant that I have been successful in creating my pop magazine and that it suits the target audience well, and that through the research I did before creating my magazine I have been able to use most of the typical conventions needed to create a pop magazine, and have represented my magazine in a way that you would associate with pop magazines, as my target audience said (see video).