Audience Research

I chose three different genre of magazine to base my audience research on. The first one is a typical girly magazine called top of the pops, and you can tell this just by looking at the cover. The main colours that are used are pink and purple, this will attract the attention of young girls as they tend to be quite popular colours. Also it says 7 sizzling posters all of boys who are adored by a lot of girls so they may want to buy the magazine because of the free posters. As well as that it says that inside there are fashion tips, this would interest girls as they often want to keep up with the latest trends. The stories inside will tend to be light hearted and sweet. 

  

 The next magazine I looked as was for an older generation. As it has a popular rap artist on the front I would say its aimed mainly at teenage boys who tend to listen to rap music. The covers quite simple with a large intimidating picture of a popular rap artist 50 cent. This would appeal more to boys than girls as its the genre of music that boys tend to listen to more. the colours are quite dull compared to other magazines, using colours like grey, black white and red. Keeping the cover simple but still eye catching.

The last magazine I looked at for my research was off a rock genre. It uses a mixture of dull and lighter colours. The stories included inside will tend to be quite hard hitting unlike other magazines. So I think that the target audience for this magazine would be teenagers to young adults. there are bold words like CLASH that will stand out to the audience as it is quite a powerful word. The main image is of a singer from the band guns and roses, he looks quite serious and bold. This magazine may scare the younger generation as it has quite a serious tone. Also not a lot of children tend to listen to rock music so they may not no any of the artists that feature in the magazine therefor it wont interest them as much as other magazines with artists that they no and love.