Question 5: How Did You Attract/address Your Audience?

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Question 5: How did you attract/address your

audience?

Through my useage of bright, bold colours and sans


serif typeface I have created a house style and brand
identity that will appeal to my target audience
through connotations of youth, and ensuring it will
stand out on a shop shelf. Stuart Halls reception
suggests that to create an affective and appropriate
piece of media, the
producer has encode
various codes,
conventions, signs and
elements of
representation in a
way that an audience
can easily understand
(decode) the meaning,
if this is not well put in
place, then the meaning of these signs can be read in a
negotiated or oppositional way. To ensure that I avoided
this, I used various methods of collecting data and taking
psychographic and demographic questions I gathered my
audiences interests and hobbies, as well as personality
traits. I knew that my audience had a high affliation with
social media, so ensured to include social media links and a
QR code offering free downloadable content, to not only strengthen the brand loyalty, but
to increase advertisement through consumers.
The stories that spanned throughout my magazine appeal to their various hobbies (social
issues, fashion, festivals & gigs), as well as an article solely run by the audience themselves
so they are able to feel a part of the community that is Roots. My useage of handwriting like
font (GRRRL POWER) replicates not only the genre convention of indie music, but paired
with the direct address of eye contact, they are able to imagine that this is their
handwriting, and again, feel even more of a part of the Roots community. The obscuration
of background across both my DPS and main image juxtaposed with my cover star who falls
into the same demographics (age and gender) as my TA further aids this, as they able to

imagine her in any location, much like my TA span across all of the UK. Considering this, and
as my cover star is a successful musician, my TA will want to be like her and look up to her,
and thus will be enticed to buy the magazine further.

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