Preliminary Task - Evaluation - Question 4

How did you attract/address your audience?

I asked other students within year 12 and 13 (my target audience) to comment on my final versions of my magazine cover page and contents page. They wrote about what caught their attention and what attracted them to my magazine cover page and contents page. 

Quotes from my target audience.

Clear, Bold, Professional, Good Photograph, readable text, Good Contrast of Colours.

With my magazine cover page to attract my target audience I have stuck to using two main colours within my magazine cover page. With my masthead and sub heading I have placed a bold red line around each letter; I feel that this makes the entire word stand out fully from the rest of the magazine.

with the main image being of two students playing football, I feel that this image stands out as it has a "invisible frame" as there is text just underneath the two students, cover lines on the right side of the two students and a tag line just above the two students this draws the attention of the audiences eyes towards the two students playing football. This gives the photograph an "invisible Frame". The student more to the right on the cover page is wearing the school PE kit this represents the genre of the magazine being sport. 

Even though the two students playing football are both male this will attract both male and female audience, as boys will want to be playing football like them and girls will want to meet and be friends with them.

All the colours I have used with this magazine are all bright, vibrant colours this attract the target audience and shows them that this is an interesting magazine.

With my magazine contents page I have kept too the codes and conventions of using red and yellow for the text, as I feel these two colours contrast well, the red line around each letter makes the entire word stand out from the rest of the contents page. I have used a pale yellow colour as a background colour as I feel that any bold colour will contrast well with the pale yellow.

The main image is of the "Student of the Month" I feel this will make student perform better at school as they know if they try hard enough they will get there photograph in the school magazine where everyone will see them. 

For every heading that I have mentioned within the contents page is in bold red, this will catch my target audience’s eye therefore leading them onto looking and reading the page I have mentioned.