1)Who would be the audience for your media product?

When I first began, thinking of magazine ideas, I spoke about my target audience, ranging ages from 16 - 25 years. I feel that since I have made the final product, the layout, and sophisticated design, of colours, fonts, and pictures, really suits the age range that I have suggested my audience would be.

Layout

The design of my front cover, Dps, and content page, have a very sophisticated/60's/gothic style, this was to match my theme. I feel that my chosen layout for my front cover and Dps, matches a lot of current music magazines, e.g. centre front image, masthead at the top, writing all around the image. However the layout for my contents page, was purely due to my creativity, however the 'scattered' effect of images on one side of the page is commonly used in magazines. When designing my pages, I always had my target audience in my head, as whatever I did had to attract to that age group. So I had to be carefully choosing a layout that would not bee too formal, and that would not be too childish.

Colours/Fonts

When choosing my fonts and colour scheme, I found very difficult as I wanted to match my theme of 60's, vintage effect, so I was planning in my head pale beige/orange colours, but I had to be very careful, as the colours needed to stand out, as it was a magazine, and has to attract buyers. I ended up using 'white' for a lot of the texts, as white goes with everything, and luckily stands out from most of the colours that I have used on my pages. After researching current magazines for a teens/young adults, I felt that fonts were hugely important for showing the theme, and attracting a specific type of audience, for example... I found a lot of 60's fonts, which I have used the front page, " 50 " To portray the gothic effect, I have used a font called, "cracked", which I have used on the name of the band, "Petals of the cellar" To contrast with these fonts, on the rest of the text, I have used traditional 'Arial' font.

Pictures

When I came to taking my photo shoot, I had a very clear idea of what I wanted and how I wanted the models to be placed. My models looked of the ages between 16-25, which is good as they can be looked up to, as role models for young girls ranging from this age group. The choice of clothing was my idea, of mixing modern day, high street fashion, which a 60's edge, this unique look, could be a new style that this age group would like to follow, as nowadays vintage clothing is coming back! I feel that it it very important to think about how you will structure the models to be in the image, to convey that they are a close, fun band, influencing young girls to want to be like them, which I have found through my research, a lot of music magazine try to pursue this effect on their audience.