Music Magazine - Evaluation Question 2

·         Describe what your choice of photos tells us about the audience you are creating your magazine for.  What techniques did you use and why?  For what effect?  (You can refer back to your photo shoots and posts on representation and ideology here)

·         Do the same for your choice of language.  What did you write about?  What would your audience be most interested in?

      For my double page spread I choose to write about the Jingle Bell Ball. The Jingle Bell Ball, incase you are unaware, is Capital FM's show at the O2 in London where 7 acts perform various songs. This was due to the fact I had recently returned from Jingle Bell Ball, and was still quite excited about it. I wanted to use language that would be informative whilst interesting. I also wanted it to be positive and convincing so that people would possibly attend next year, or to the Summertime Ball. From my research I decided that the audience I would be most interested in were the 16 - 25 age range. Stereotypically the 16 -25 age range are the most likely to attend festivals and gigs. Therefore, I felt like the Jingle Bell Ball would be appropriate.

·         Describe the overall image (how they want to look) and lifestyle (how they want to be) of your audience and how you put this across in your magazine (you can refer back to your audience research here and link it up).

      The overall image of my my audience is fashionable and up to date with the latest trends. They want to be noticed by there peer groups for there sense of style and to fit in amongst others there age.People develop there own style, based around the trends of there local area at the moment. They want to be communicating with friends through mobile phones and the internet. Music, movies, television and video games are very important to the teenagers of the 21st Century. As you can see from my readership profile, the stereotypical reader of 'Music Weekly' would aspire to own clothes and shoes from brands such as Topshop, River Island, Toms, Vans etc and will own a phone and camera and possibly an ipod or laptop. To put across the idea of communication I have included a website for my magazine and advertisements for 'Music Weekly's' Facebook and Twitter page.

    ·      What sort of things would you see most often in the magazine, what would you also  occasionally see and what would you never see?

             Regular feature of the magazine would include Reviews, Gossip, and Interviews because   from the questionaire results these had 70% or higher of the results suggesting these. Occasionally you would see Compettitions, Photoshoots, News, and Features because they had between 70% and 50% of the questionaire results suggesting these. You would never see Advetisements as they had less than 50% of the questionaire suggesting them.