Evaluation: How did you attract/address your audience?

You can tell that this is a magazine front cover because it uses the conventions of media magazines. For example, we have used screamers throughout the cover to give emphasis on various articles that are to be featured within. This is common within magazines and used in the industry a large amount. We have also used a masthead to display our title of the magazine. This makes the front cover easily definable as an industry cover because the audience is targetted through the name and style. We have also used a puff to big up our magazine which would definitely taregt our audience through the use of promotion and a bold colour. The colours we have used on the cover are eyecatching to the target audience, which is mainly girls. I feel that the use of pinks and blues contrasting would help the audience show initial interest. The bar-code, date, title and issue number are all typical of a magazine front cover but are a neccessity, as opposed to trying to grab the attention of the audience. We have used a column at the side of our magazine because when we researched previous magazines that were already on the market and similar to what we wanted, this was a feature most of them used. We put fashion advice in the column to keep the audience interested and make them want to read inside.