Charlotte's media blog

The target audience for my magazine are older teenagers to young adults.And mostly females. My reasons for this is because when i did my questionairre before producing my magazine they came up as most likley to read my magazine.

This is the example of my questionairre results.

Also when doing my questionaiire i asked whether males of females would read my magazine. It turned out that more females would read my magazine rather than males. Which meant that i should probably of put a male model on my front cover as thats what women like so see, but i decided I'd rather put a female on their as i could'nt get a male model to take pictures of. Females are still attracted to my magazine because they aspire to be like the women on the front.

I knew that although my questionairre results proved that more women would read my magazine more than men, i knew men would to. Because of this i choose to use unisex colours of red, white, black and also decided that I'd add articles which women and men can relate too. When i did my audeince research into a magazine like mine, i choose vibe. See link..
http://charlotterandalll.blogspot.com/2010/11/audience-research.html
I found that there target audience was around ages 12-24, which is a wider variety to mine but inluding the same ages. I think reasons for this is because most of the people who took my questionaiire were my school friends who are around the ages of 16 to 19.

Conventions of the contents pages are:
-Masthead
-Page numbers
-Descriptions
-Things in coloums
-Various little pictures and relation to articles
-Colour schemes and fonts consistent to front pages
-Abbreviations sometimes used.

I have included most of these on my contents page. (refer to picture below.) I didn't want to have loads of writing on my contents page so i decided to do three main highlights of what's in the magazine I then included a "also in this issue" sections because when styding magazines before this feature was included often. I also included a picture of my front cover on the contents page because I'd also seen this done before. My images are fitting into conventions as i have cropped the backgroud out and edited them. I have included props like a guitar and alochol because it relates to my articles.

The conventions of a double page spread are;
-Main pictures and other little ones
-Masthead and cover lines underneath
-Page numbers
-Descriptions
-Colour schemes
-Larger writing at the beginning of an article introducing
-Set out in coloums/paragraphs.

When making my double page spread i used most of the conventions above. (see below pic) I tried doing lots of things with my double page spread to see what worked best. I decided it was best to put the main picture seperate to the text, and the little ones just featured inside the text. I also added a larger caption as something was said in the interview which was important and a line which i thought would attract the audience. My images fit conventions as my genre was R&B i used props to make my pictures more effective. E.g Glasses, high top trainers, gillet ect. I also followed conventions by cutting the pictures away from their background. The reason why i had to add blue into my colour scheme when doing my double page spread was because the black was hard to see underneath the pictures.