Question 2 media evaluation

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Question 2Question 2

• The image used on my front cover is of an attractive 21 year old up and coming solo indie-pop artist. This would appeal to an extremely wide audience, those with indie music tastes, and those with pop, and then females who will look up to Rosie McCarthy as a role model and fashion icon and males who will look at her for her attractiveness as well as her talent, etc.

• It is evident through this front cover that success in music is not only down to talent, but the personality and looks of a person, which in most cases can both only make the individual more successful.

• On all aspects of my magazine, I decided to have a reoccurring theme, so my front cover, contents page and double page spread all coincided with one another effectively.

• I chose to do this by adding a dotted faded out light effect to my magazine. I got this inspiration from a vintage fashion magazine names ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ who used a polka dot background on a particular issue, and I wanted to try and recreate that, but in a way linked to music, still keeping a more feminine sense to my magazine at the same time, hence how I came up with the idea of dots, which acted as lights (as the adjacent arrows indicate).

• My magazine fits the target audience I intended it for which was predominantly females. However, my contents page is unisex and can definitely reach out to both males and females. With the charcoal/grey colours and the black and white pictures it isn’t gender orientated.

• I used a plain background so the dotted lights and glows would be more prominent and stand out a lot more, it also fits in with my quite simplistic shabby theme and indie-pop music genre.

• Furthermore, my magazine age range is for people aged 16-30, so being the a younger generation I have made the magazine £2.49 as people of that age aren’t as willing and likely to spent more then that on a magazine.