Magazine and Audience (Part 2)

 

Analysis 

This magazine is named Rock Sound, and it is a music magazine. I believe their target audience is teenagers and possibly young adults. I think this because of the san serif fonts that have been used which makes it bold and informal. Also where it is a music magazine it has used the famous rock band Paramore as the main image on the front cover. This will attract their audience because they are so popular. Furthermore to narrow down the target audience I believe this magazine has been aimed at teenage/young adult females. This shows because of the saturated colours of pink that have been used to border the magazine and to highlight certain words. Pink is known to be a stereotypical colour for girls which would prove that this magazine is trying to attract female readers more. Moreover, the main cover line "Access All Areas Paramore" this pulls the reader in and interests them more in the content as they could want to know all the gossip about the popular band. This has also used a san serif font meaning it is bold and bright enough for potential readers to see from a distance. This is helped by the contrasting colours from the main image making the text stand out more. 

The magazine cover has used advertisements to boost its status and to interest the reader in buying the magazine. Also the advertisement has been highlighted in a pink background and the font is in yellow, this enhances the advertisements because the colours clash making it more brighter for the reader. These adverts have been highlighted like this as they are competitions so by buying the magazine the reader will hopefully apply for the competition and then the magazine may receive more money.

The magazine has used plugs to show what else is available in the magazine. This attracts the readers eye and interests them in buying it more, especially if they understand what they are buying. 

The colour scheme works well with the piece as it is bold and bright, it easily interests the audience, as they will want to know why it is so bright. Although the colour is shocking pink, it doesn't necessarly mean that the magazine is aimed just at girls. I think it is aimed at both genders because even though it is pink, the brightness and the flouresence of it makes it more attractive to the target market because they like shocking flouresent colours. I believe that by using the shock colours plus all the images and compact text, it has appealed well to its audience and can easily attract them without fail.