Evaluation - Question 4

The Audience of my magazine, are roughly aged 17 - 30, but there also may be older people who will read my magazine, as it will often feature older music, such as britpop and classic rock.


My audience are people into music; many of them will be students studying music, or other courses that involve music in someway, such as music technology, or events management. They will generally have an appreciation for lots of music, rather than just the charts. 


The audience that will read my magazine will also be into music festivals, and live gigs. They may also play in a band themselves, and if so play instruments that make up bands featured in the magazine, instruments including guitars, bass, singing, drums and keyboard.


For the older range of my audience, if they are not students, they may have a career to do with music, whether that be teaching an instrument or a class.


I found pictures of the type of audience I feel would read my magazine. I have used the artist on the front of my cover as an example, but I feel she is a good example of my audience:

 This is an example of my target audience; they play in a band; they're really into music. Notice again the make up of the band - a guitarist, bass player and a drummer.

 This girl is wearing a flower in her hair, a leather jacket, and has her own style. She is also young; this is what my target audience would look like, or this would be their style.

After creating the final product, I feel that my product is suitable for my planned target audience. For my final product, I feel the target audience may be slightly younger, late teens to mid twenties, because there are more contemporary bands, and music festival information, which is generally aimed at the younger generation nowadays.

I feel the class of my target audience is middle class/upper class. The majority of my readership will either be a student, or just into starting work. The fact that they are a student and have gone to university shows they are intelligent, and this makes the readership a higher class.

In the beginning I planned to aim my magazine at both genders, not wanting to be specific about which gender it was aimed at. I feel that I have successfully done this, by featuring a range of different artists and gigs.


I also made a reader's profile or media pack for my magazine, to make my target audience clearer:

This would be found on NBM's website.