PROFILING YOUR AUDIENCE

 

Rachel, 17, is a passionate music and fashion fan. She plays three musical instruments, which are the piano, guitar and violin. In Rachel free time she goes to vocal lesson so that she can improve on her singing. Rachel enjoys fashion and likes to keep up with the latest trends and as a hobby designs outfits. She is currently in college where she studies textiles, art, music and maths. She enjoys RnB, Pop music and also rap music, one of her most favourite artist is Beyonce Knowles. Rachel is a very sociable person and has a lot of friends who also have the same taste of music as her.

 I intend to develop my magazine in order to appeal to my set audience who are teenagers like Rachel. I intend to make it fun and interesting so that it will attract my target audience and have certain articles that the teenage readers can relate to. It will have up coming fashion trends so that the readers will be on track. To attract the readers eye so that they would buy the magazine, there front cover will be covered with bold and fun colours and images of teenagers in atrractive clothing.

AUDIENCE RESEARCH

                 

         

      





     

                                           

                                            

CONTENTS PAGE ANALYSIS

•  In the Billboard contents page there are seven mini paragarphs, which all talk about varies different things.
•  The page is very busyt and pictures and text are placed a ll arond the contents page.
• Three photos are placed at the top, directly underneath the the title 'contents'. 
• There is a large image which has been positioned on the right hand side of the page.   
• Whereas the text is scatterdd around the page.
• On the left hand side is a long strip of  the Billboard music chart.
• On the contents page the text is more dominate over the images (60/40).
•  The magazine has up to 53 paages and more, teeling us that there is going to be a lot of information.
• Costumers are getting what they are paying for.
• The more important information on the contents page have a larger heading.

• The contents page has seven paragraphs, giving a little information about each cover-line.
• The page is stuctured in a simple way.
• The image is position on the left hand side which has been taken of two male rappers.
• The text is has been placed on the right hand side of the contents page.
• This makes the contents page easy to read.
•  The title is placed at the top of the page very big and bold.
• Below the title is the issue date and the magazsione logo.
• The relationship between the image and the text is almost equal where the text is 45% and the image is 55%.
• The image and the text are splt in to half down the page.
• The magazine has 78+ pages.

• The contents page has eight small paragraphs.
• There is only one image which is placed in the middle of the contents page, which draws the eye first.
• The structure of the contents page a fairly simple.
•  The text is on the right and left hand side of the page.
• The title is placed at the top of the page, ahich all are letters are lower case.
• In the top right hand corner is the magazine logo.
•  The relationship between the image and the text is the image is more dominant over the text.
• The image is 60% and the text is 40%.
• The magazine has  90+ pages.
• The title uses slang "billin" which it tries to appeal to a much yonger audience.

• The contents page has four mini paragraphs.
•  There is one large image which covers the whole page.
• The stucture of the contents page is simply set out.
• The text is placed on both sides of the image.
• The title is placed at the top right hand corner of the page in a white bold font.
• The image is only slightly dominanat than the text.
• the text is 40% and the image is 60%.
•  The magazine has 122+ pages.