1. As part of my planning when creating my magazine, I created
a music magazine profile of my readers to basically show
what type of people I wanted to make my magazine
appealing to and what sort of interests they may have. I used
my own experiences and knowledge of my audience to
create the profile so it could be broken down much easier.
Despite having this reader profile, my magazine is also
designed to not alienate other people of different ages and
with different interests from reading my magazine as I still
want it to perhaps create new interests in some people as a
result of reading my magazine.
Who would be the audience for your media
product?
At the start of my coursework, I had to choose a In order to have an effective media product for a desired target
desired target audience for my media product so that I audience, any publisher has to consider demographics and VAL’s to
could have certain contents and a particular determine who their audience is and to understand exactly as much as
layout/design planned so that it would attract them to possible about the people they’re trying to appeal too. For my
my magazine. For any media product there should be magazine, I was aiming at experiencers who were energetic, socially
an intended target audience which as a result active and high consumers of music whilst for my demographics I was
determines what the product will include and look like aiming at 15 to 23 year olds with 65% of that being males and 35% being
etc. My magazine is aimed at local male/female females. The social grade of my media product are primarily ABC1 as
teenagers and young adults, perhaps those ages these tend be the type of people that can afford this sort of magazine as
between 15 and 23 and who have a keen interest in they have the advantage of disposable income. However, this
the local music scene and the goings on in the information may change depending on the format of my magazine be it
background. eventually an online magazine or an actual published on shelf magazine.