Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

I believe that my media product has a clear audience as the inspiration is clear in showing its target audience. To begin I feel the imagery is very symbolic of the stereotypical rock fan, this should be enough to show the target audience. Also the mentioning of 75% off Loud and Ripley clothing shows an understanding of the target audiences tastes in clothing and where they would personally shop. It also shows readers that the fact it has 75% off means other readers would have a low disposable income meaning the amount of money they have to spend on items is low. My readers would have a quite music filled life therefore the mentioning of gigs and new bands works well for them as it would show them what gigs to go to and what type of rock bands to listen to. Also the mentioning of the top 30 rock charts shows an understanding of what they would want to read.

To collect information on my target audience I decided to make a reader profile, the information collected off it helped a lot as I feel I understood my audience better and know what to add into my work. One piece of knowledge I received was that they like the TV series ‘The Walking Dead’ one of my fonts is very similar to the font used by the series therefore readers may think of the series when reading, or when they see other stories in the magazine. On all of my pieces of work I have included the website as a part of the essential information, this is due to my target audience using the internet a lot, either for music or social media, I feel this connects with my target audiences as they internet is taking over everything gradually so keeping up with the world seems a wise thing to do.