Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my media product would be girls who are aged from 13-17. The reason for this is because of the font I have used and the colour scheme. The font is clear, bright and is much more attractive to the female gender. Also the colour of each of the pages in my magazine are purple, which is more attractive to females. For the shapes I have also used the colour pink which is a female colour. These colours are also primary colours, this means that they will stand out much more, and will be easy to see from a distance.

The target audience will like to hang out with their friends, go shopping on weekends and enjoy going to the cinema. They will like to read into celebrities private lives to get all he gossip so they will like being nosey. At school they will be popular, mostly talking to their friends about music and new songs that are coming out. There music taste will be the UK top 40 and solo artists as this is what the magazine talks about. Their house will be average size and they will wear popular brands of clothes. The reason for this is that they will be the popular ones in the school. The target audience will own a phone, it will most likely be a highly expensive one, with a variety of different features. The older part of my target audience will still be similar to this, yet they will probably have a part time job and enjoy going to concerts to see their favourite bands or solo singers. With the part time job, they may pay board or have gone to university and are trying to pay off their student debt. When they pick up magazines like this they will look at the larger images as that are what I want them to see first. The larger photo on the front cover will be someone who is popular or well-known and that they will most probably fancy. They may be a solo artist, or part of a band. Even though 13 year olds and 17 year olds will most likely have different hobbies, the images I use in my pages will still be attractive to these ages. I won’t use highly descriptive words as this will stop my target audience from wanting to buy the magazine. Therefore if I keep the words simple it will make my magazine look informal and welcoming, which will persuade my target audience to buy the magazine. This can be related to using text over boxes. The reason for this is that it makes the text more effective because it stands out more and is much easier to read.

Even though the magazine is for females, males can still read through the magazine. This is because the articles will still be interesting to them even though the images are for females. And every real media product that is similar to my magazine, will have an anomaly of male readers.