QUESTION 4: WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT? Chrissie Gibson
AGE OF ROCK WITH THE AGE OF PEOPLE.
Rock was now simply one established genre among many competing for the younger demographic. Rappers replaced rock stars as icons of youth rebellion: although Eminem was white, most of the other major performers were African American, including Public Enemy, N.W.A, Notorious B.I.G., and Tupac Shakur. Country music, including Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, and the Dixie Chicks, courted suburban youth with a slicked-up twang. A new breed of boy bands like N'Sync and the Backstreet Boys, revived the teenybopper for the MTV era. Dance beats appealed to a subculture of ravers, whose consumption of the party drug Ecstasy terrified parents who had grown up experimenting with marijuana to the sounds of rock. The new age of our generation are interested in different and upbeat sounds.
As rock aged, however, cracks
unsurprisingly started to appear in its
dominance over youth culture. Punk, a
movement from within rock that began
in the mid-1970s, gradually became the
music's oppositional wing, inspiring an
audience that still looked to rock to
behave as the antithesis of
manufactured pop music. My magazine
take you back to the best days of rock
for a special issue. I have also included
the new age of rock as well. My
magazine is mainly steering towards
teenagers and young adults who are
interested in the difference of music
culture today, with my magazine being
a mixed magazine.
MY DEMOGRAPHIC New affluent workers
This class group is sociable, has lots of cultural interests and is in the middle of all the class groups in terms of wealth. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:
Are young- mainly between the ages of 14-30 years old. Come from a working class background- have sustainable jobs
and a good income in order to meet the middle of all class groups in terms of wealth.
Own their own home- as they have a sustainable income and can afford to have things that they want from the money they earn.
POP H
ip-
hop
MUSICrapUrban
DJs
Club
ROCK
House
My demographic are in to all types of
different music, with interests in rock, pop, urban and club music.
FASHION
My demographics is mainly towards females who are
between the ages of 13- 25.
Their fashion trends are anything
and everything. From rock chicks to
pretty in pink, to girls with multi-coloured hair, to girls with natural
coloured hair. Many girls follow
the style of what's in magazine is and the media but my
magazine promotes every
girls style through a mixed media
magazine.
PRODUCTS THEY BUY
My demographic buy typical things any teenager would
love to have and want. From technology and the latest gadgets to the new
style of fashion or their own fashion on the high-street, to going out to buy food (healthy and unhealthy), and buying tickets to the cinema, to shows and to
concerts.
LEISURE ACTIVITIES AND HOBBIES
My demographic is for active and
energetic people, who enjoy sports, and enjoy doing hobbies such as
physical and interactive hobbies
like swimming, going to concerts,
socialising with friends like going
shopping and going to the cinema, as
well as going out for leisure days like going to theme
parks, cooking, art, reading, etc. Creative
and interesting people are my main
aim for my demographic, for
people who are their own person.