Creative critical reflection

A Level Media Studies 9607

Why is it good to have a target audience?

The reason why it’s good to have a target audience is so that their interests arefulfilled in the magazine. So what they like listening to and who they like going to seeare featured in the magazines. So a 70 year old wouldn’t be likely read a magazine on‘Drum and base’.When looking for my target audience I had to consider many factors. One of thembeing age. My age category is from 16 to 35 years old. That doesn’t mean to say thatpeople out of this age group aren't suppose to read it but I produced a questionnaireat the beginning of my project and saw that all the young people would like to see anSufi Rock magazine on the shelves of stores. I think my magazine is largely targeted ata loyal niche audience AT THE MOMENT. But with new artists such as Atif Aslam andThe Sketches Sufi rock is becoming more and more popular and may help the sales ofmy magazine.

I believe that my magazine will have a secondary audience because it’s a mix ofSufism and Rock. So people who are into Classical music are likely to read my musicand people who listen to Classical Rock are likely to read it so I will have a mix of twoaudiences reading it.

Main heading Which I got from the

word ‘Rhythm’ and as it’s based on

Music thought it would be a good

idea to use it. I got very good

feedback about the title of my

magazine and helped people work

out what genre the magazine was

based on.

Feature articles to entice the

audience in. Features such as

“The Music Of Life” will

persuade people who are

interested inTrue Musicand not

necessarily Sufi Roc to read

the magazine.

My main picture

who is the singer

and Model for my

magazine” is quite

different from what

you would usually

see on a magazine

cover as its shows

the traditional

culture of Sufism.

This has been

done to attract the

audiences

attention..

For my contents page I have choseninteresting feature articles so to interestmy reader. My first featured article is‘Salmans journey to Sufi kingdom’ Whichcreates suspense for the ready as Ihaven’t said what the interview is about.The reader therefore will probably beintrigued to see who they are even if theydidn't want to read that article anyway. Ihave also included “Lets start the festival”in my contents page as this is one of mymain features of the magazine, so manypeople will most likely be buying themagazine for that one article and want toget to it quick and easy. I have also useda big picture of one of mosque to reflectthe Poetic side of this music’ andchanged it into a cutout effect onPhotoshop which will attract my targetaudience as it is very artistic like.

For my double page spread I have used

the title; the spiritual journey this is

because it gives the readers an

attractive heading for the poetic and

musical article and it is then clear to

audience who the article is about and

what they’re called. I have used a typical

paragraph structure for my article which

makes it easy to read. I have also written

on a image from my shoot to establish

link between he reader and the article

.Instead I wrote mine more like a story

than an interview.. I think this will

attract my audience as it isn’t a typical

interview and they wont get bored. have

used quite a large picture on my double

page spread. I think this attracts the

audiences attention as it’s the first time

we have seen them up close.