The use of colour

Understanding audience profile

Target audience profile refers to a detailed appraisal of one's customers' characteristics, behaviors and attitude.

Enables the supplier to reach audience with best effect.

Demographics Profile: quantifiable statistics of a given population. Most frequently used demographic variable is age, gender, job, location, marital status, educational level, income and nationality.

Psycho-graphic Profile: reflect common activities, interest and opinions as well as attitudes and values of those people.

Questionnaire and Results

This is the layout for my magazine questionnaire I am going to post on the social media Facebook using survey monkey.

 

Imaginary Entity

For my magazine I am going to aim it at males and females in the age demographic of 16-24 years old. I have chosen this age group for my magazine because two very popular rock magazines –Rock Sound and Kerrang! – appeal to this similar age bracket and it has worked very well (15-24). 

Rock Sound demographics    

The imaginary entity enjoys listening to rock music especially in their spare time, and loves to catch up on all the latest news in the music industry and finds themselves buying music on a regular basis. With them being a student, money can be a bit tricky to handle so anything reasonably cheap is ideal. The student is studying music trying to achieve their dream on being the next rock star so music is definitely a big part of their life.

As they are a student they would class themselves in the buyer category of C/D which would mean cost of magazines aimed at that target audience have a more informal style language with cost being relatively cheap as to appeal to the audience.

Semiotic analysis of 3 music magazines

Here I have analysed 3 music magazines, Rock sound, Q and Kerrang. This will help me to make my own music magazine cover later on in the course.

 

School magazine contents page mock up

Here I have designed a mock up of what I believe that the contents age would look like for my school magazine.

School Magazine Front Cover

Here is the final product of my school magazine I have worked on, the cover follows my plan and includes many of the key features a magazine should consist of; Puff, Masthead, Central image, Cover lines, Tagline, Strap line, Barcode, Edition number and Price. 

In my front cover i have used one of the photos I took in the photo shoot  previously and have edited it to make it more appealing.

This is a before and after showing of the photo I had taken and have used in my school magazine cover.

Here you can see that before the picture was bigger and after is smaller as it has been cropped down to size of A4 and has gotten rid off unnecessary parts of the border such as the ceiling and part pd their legs. 

I have also edited  the photo so that it is now brighter so that you can see the photo clearer as before the setting was a bit too dark and not as clear to see the people and setting.

Furthermore, I have also edited to have the effect of the page curling in the top right corner to reveal the schools logo to make the image more intriguing.