Evaluation Question Four (4 Draft)

Who would be the audience for your media product?

My intended audience for my magazine consists of students/ older teenagers aged from 15-20. Because they are this age it means that they would be able pay a monthly amount to keep up to date with their niche and alternative genre. The audience would be English, American or any other English speaking countries as it allows international fans to be in touch with the changes in their genre for a change. The audience obviously defines the content and style of the magazine. In fact, it defines everything about the magazine. It could be said that I designed this magazine for someone like myself- I am 16 (so I fit nicely in my target audience age bracket) and I find it difficult to keep in touch with the changes within my genre. Therefore, the idea of there being a magazine with everything in it saves any international fan time from scoping through various social networking sites and hearing false news.

The age of the artist I have featuring on the cover of my magazine also had to be taken into consideration as I wished it to be someone that the young audience could identify themselves with. I did not wish to make this magazine come across as a gender focused ideology as this genre of music is stereo-typically linked to females, therefore I used models and artists of both sexes and tried not to stick to conforming to the idea of the male gaze- therefore I put my male artist as the ultimate focal point of my magazine.

In the end the audience needed to be catered for as they/ we are not ones who easily identify ourselves with the genre. The magazine consequently needed to come across as respectable and something people could want to identify themselves with. The tone of the article and content is allowed to be chilled out and relaxed when considering my audience- in-formalities are able to be used as well as nonstandard English and jargon/ metalanguage.  Other magazines such as BROMIDE wrote the majority of their articles with formal language however they used metalanguage as way of connecting with their audience and this allowed me to gather the idea of adopting this convention and developing it by writing in standard English with a few in-formalities in order to connect my audience further.