Evaluation Representation RESUBMISSIONS

Media Studies Evaluation- Representation

My magazine is presented to visibly show who the target audience is for. My target audience is towards teenagers especially females with having the feature article on a female also. In which it includes discussing music careers and related aspects. I have represented the teenage/youth by using mainstream themes and a typical new upcoming teenage singer on the front cover. Young people are very much drawn to that, seeing who is new in the music industry. My target audience is of teenagers whom are into the generic pop culture, which all share the mainstream message and style. It’s aimed at people who feed off other people’s choices, as an example the use of having the fashion extra within the magazine is shown as a good way for other to feed off other people’s style and decisions.

spectrum of colours that I similarly used

The colours that I have used for my magazine are blue, white and black. I took a slight risk using these colours when having a young teenage audience due to stereo types; I knew that those colours wouldn’t work categorically with my target audience, however I wanted to test the general stereotype and go for something which in my opinion worked with my target audience quite well. I tried to work on my writing, making sure that the type of terms I used was not too complex or too technical for a teenager’s mind. I used some abbreviations for some words however I tried to avoid slang to keep the magazine looking professional. The images that I used for my magazine were quite simple. I didn’t make them seem so bold with a specific genre of people or music to go by. I included images of both females and males within my magazine so there was a perfect balance and equality. I also did this to attract both genders towards the magazine and not just one or the other. I did enforce the stereotype of including a male exclusive of a fashion shoot knowing that it would get full attention from young teenage girls. Immediate drawn attention of a well known model or highly attractive male, can really heighten sales of magazines as teenage girls ranging from 17-19 would really take this as an instant draw and attraction to buy a magazine with that feature. 
My magazine has enforced that my readers and target audience are interested in what others choose to do, and that they get inspired to copy or mimic what others do. It also referred my readers to be interested in young people whom achieve the music industry and whom inspire young people to follow in similar footsteps. Finally, I had to pin point people who enjoy the art of fashion icons also which is moulded together with music.