Evaluation Question 5: How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience?

                                                   

 I attracted my audience by using the vivid colour of green which I think would stand out amongst other magazines. The colour green is quite natural and because folk is associated with country music it makes it quite appropriate to use.

I looked in to magazines and they had written a lot about music awards and so I decided to see if there was actually a real folk awards and I managed to find one, from there I found artists who had been nominated and won awards which I have then been able to use in my magazine which would attract audiences because they might want to find out about upcoming artists and by having an awards ceremony for folk it makes the genre a bit more prestigious so more people might be interested to find out what it is all about.

I feel that my contents page could attract an audience because again the bright colours of green and all of the tabs make it look quite interesting because I found with a lot of people from research that they tend to look past the contents page because they find that there is too much writing and they would rather just read on through the magazine. However I feel that people would read what is actually in the magazine and would address them about what my magzine is about and what it contains.

Out of the three I feel that my double page spread lacks the most because it is quite simple but I think that the large picture on the right might make people stop to read because I looked in many magazines and the majority had a large picture on the right, a large heading, a small introducing paragraph and little writing, I didnt want to make the writing in Question and answer form because I think it makes it too chatty whereas I want to inform people about who my act is and what they are about.

Overall I think my magazine attracts and addresses my audience because I think the captions on my front page would make people want to read the magazine but I would change my double page spread because it doesn't quite go with the overall layout of my magazine.