5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Question 1: Would you buy the magazine? - This was my audience's response. From looking at these results, I can infer that my magazine is successful in the way that it grabs my audience's attention because only one out of the ten questioned, wouldn't buy my magazine thus showing how my magazine does appeal to my audience and in this sense I have successfully created a magazine that suits my genre as well as my audience. This also means that they are more likely to buy the magazine because it is something they like and find aesthetically pleasing.

Question 2: Is the price reasonable? - This was my audience's response. Although the majority of those questioned thought the price was reasonable, some thought it was too expensive. Therefore if I was to repeat this project again, I would lower the price to perhaps £2.99 as this will be more suitable for my audience because students/teenagers don't have a lot of money to spend on magazines. Hence if I was to lower the price, it would increase sales and appeal more to my audience which is something I want to ensure.

 Question 3: Does the image appeal to you? - This was my audience's response. I can infer that every single person who I interviewed thought that the image appealed to them thus I feel I have successfully appealed and thought about my audience because by looking at this response, I can tell that my audience like the images presented to them; the images are suited to what they like. However my own personal opinion is that to improve, I would use other artists and take pictures of numerous artists, not just one, because then I am able to open my magazine to a bigger audience and it also makes the contents page look a lot more interesting and exciting. Other than this, I feel I have successfully addressed my audience.

Question 4: Is the music genre clear? - This was my audience's response. I can infer from this response that the majority of people I asked thought the genre was clear; this was indie pop. However a small group of people thought that the music genre wasn't clear therefore to improve I will make the genre more apparent within the photos and text. I will do this by perhaps making my artist look more individual and alternative and I would also use an acoustic guitar as this is something that would make my image look more indie thus attracting my audience more. Despite this, I think the majority of the magazine looks indie pop due to the black and white, the hints of oranges and reds and the natural background however I think that I chose quite a difficult genre as it is very specific. This is why next time I will choose a more open and easy genre.

Question 5: Do you think the layout is neat and clear? - This was my audience's response. By looking at this response I can infer that everyone I interviewed thought that the layout was neat and clear. This, in my opinion, was a successful part of my magazine because I wanted to ensure that my magazine was clear and presented well and this is what I did. I ensured my text was in line and of a similar size and font throughout as this makes my magazine look more professional and high standard. This is why I feel I have created a successful magazine and have addressed my audience successfully because I ensured that the layout was simple and clear. However if I was to improve, I would perhaps to a more creative and unique layout as my layout is quite similar to all magazines. Other than this, I am happy with my layout.

Question 6: Do you think the images and colours are suitable for the genre? - This was my audience's response. According to the response, I can infer that the majority of people thought that all the images and colours were suitable for the genre. This is because I tried to keep the colours and images minimal because this was what appealed to my audience. They wanted images which were natural and relaxed and also they liked basic colours like black and white. As well as this, I wanted to use colours which made the theme of individuality more apparent in my magazine hence I used oranges and golds. Despite this, a few thought they weren't. Therefore to improve I will do further research into what specific colours my audience want so I can include this within my magazine to suit my genre more. Also I will make the images more individual and indie by, as aforementioned, adding an acoustic guitar as this will make my magazine suit my genre more as an acoustic guitar is what you normally think about when you think of indie. Other than this I feel like the use of colour and images was rather successful within my magazine.

Question 7: Does the text sound interesting/appealing? - This was my audience's response. I can infer that everyone I interviewed thought that the text sounded interesting and appealing. This is why I feel I have successfully addressed my audience because I analysed current indie pop magazines and looked at what sort of articles they used and I found that the articles were quite emotive and real; they weren't cliché or boring. This is why I ensured that my article was interesting and unedited because I wanted to make the article real and true because this is what my audience wanted. Therefore I feel I have successfully attracted my audience because the use of a creative and appealing article ensured that they found it interesting; I wanted them to want to read more of the magazine.

Question 8: Do you think the theme throughout is clear? - This was my audience's response. I can infer that the majority of people thought that the theme was apparent throughout however there were a few people who did not. They thought that the theme was apparent within the headers on the front cover and contents page but not so much on the double page spread. Therefore to improve I will make my theme, the theme of fire and flames, more obvious and clear on my double page spread by perhaps adding fire streaks into the large quote on the left page because this would have made the theme more clear on these pages. Despite this, I did try and keep the theme apparent by adding the fire effect into the page number boxes however because this is quite small it was probably not as apparent as it should have been. Therefore to improve I will add the theme into the double page spread so that my magazine looks more professional; it will make the pages look more like they are part of one magazine as opposed to different magazines.

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