Evaluation:- "What would be the audience for your media product and how did I attract them?"

My media product was a rock music magazine. I researched into many types of other dependant rock magazines, finding out what type of audience they attract and how. Researching into this will give me a better understanding of how to develop my magazine to challenge other media products. My target audience initially was both male and female, for teenagers and early adulthood between 15-24. But I considered that many people over my predicted target audience as rock music is very popular and can capture peoples taste.

In many rock magazines like kerrang, I thought the audience would be classed as a c2, because I believe that they don't have an understanding of how the music industry works compared to other sophisticated media products, such as NME and Q. But seeming my magazine follows along the footsteps of magazines like Kerrang, I thought I would keep the same class, c1/2

Looking and researching at the aesthetics of other media magazines has helped me find out what the attractions are for the audience when buying the magazine. Forms and conventions are important when thinking about how to attract the audience, including the style and the layout of the magazine, the wording and fonts it uses etc... In many other media products like Kerrang and Q, the fonts are very loud and bold, it shouts out what the magazines about. The colouring is quite bland, using colours like black and white. Where as the colours which are used in the coverlines give a more striking appearance on the magazine, as they used much more brighter colours.

In my magazine, you can see the similarities and differences of mine from other magazines, but looking it, I cant see many ways I have challenged other media products with the lack of differences.

Looking at my front cover, the main difference from other magazines is my main background. As it is set outside with a person holding a guitar, whereas in other magazines like Kerrang, they set their photos in studios and other indoor places. The stance of the person and what they are wearing shows the rebellious side of them and the magazine. Apart from that, the layout, fonts and the use of conventions used in my magazine are all similar to other media magazines, which adds to the rebellious main picture.

In the contents page and the double page spread again shows more similarities than differences. On the contents page, the pictures connote the persons well being, punching her fist out to the audience shows the rebellious side. The way the text is layed out into columns shows the similarity from other media studies, the dark colours used for the text, fonts and backgrounds all connotes that its a magazine.