Evaluation - How is the audience attracted?

5. How is the audience attracted?

The image to the left shows a large magazine stand.

When appraching a magazine stand in a shop, you can see the types of magazines in their own sections, for example home magazines would have their section compared to music magazines. As there is alot of magazines on a stand you need to find the right section too, which stands out amongst the rest. I think having my black and white theme in the music genre will stand out, because it has a running theme of colours and a bold title. The main image is very large and i think some of the white text and the white image of the i-pod stand out against the black background.

The audience would be attracted the contents showed on the front cover, as this would be the first stories and images they see. There are bands and artists they can familarise themselves with, possibly be interested in the competitions, as a young audience being fascinated in technology etc, an i-pod competition may attract their attention.

Other ways i addressed the audience was by using familiar language and the tone and style of the language to communicate with them. This allows the audience to identify the magazine and become engaged with the magazine quickly from the interest of the style or tone they understand.

I have had a lot of audience feedback through the networking site Facebook. The audience were my exact target audience, and helped me create a better magazine, to suit all of their needs.

The first post on my page, named audience feedback, shows the exact images of the feedback i was given.