Evaluation-Question 2

I attracted my audience in a number of ways. First I decided to use a model which is black and young, straightaway this will appeal to my black audience. Both genders because he is attractive and girls will want to look at this, because he looks ‘cool’ boys will think, I want to be like him. The font I used on my front cover is graffiti style and appeals a lot to my demographic group.

My media product appeals to mainly one demographic group and this is especially to young black males, clearly because I have chosen a model who is young black and male, because a certain type of music is associated with young black males which is hip-hop, R n B and Rap, and this is the type of music I have chosen for my magazine. My model is dressed wearing a hat because this also links in to how a lot of black boys wear hats or hoods, it is a very popular item of clothing among the male gender so this will attract the males. Also in my double page spread he is wearing sun glasses making him look mysterious and ‘cool’. In my double page spread he has an afro and this is another way young black males are shown with an afro.
My magazine most likely wouldn’t appeal to European or British audiences because they don’t really dress in this way and also have a totally different culture and the way they are, although there are the small majority that grow up around in an afro- Caribbean community, they are accustomed to the music and the dress, some are not. What's more is the older audiences for example adults from about 30+ upwards would not really be interested in a music magazine with language that they may not understand or like. The language and imagery is not really appealing to them because the way the model is dressed is not how they would dress most likely, they would not pick up this magazine because it doesn’t have a model of someone they might know or attract to them because the model is quite young-looking, the majority would just want to hear about jobs, taxes and the government. So audiences from 30+ would most likely not pick this up. Also my model is wearing clothes with famous name brands, which is very popular these days, just as the fashion and so this could appeal to lots of different races, simply because of what he is wearing. The representation of my model is a music artist so that is why he has earphones with what he is wearing, also his NVC is serious and this is a typical expression for music artists on the front cover of a music magazine.