QUESTION 2.EVALUATION HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT DIFFERENT SOCIAL GROUPS?

Before I designed my magazine I made a questionnaire using survey monkey and asked my peers to complete it by using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. I decided that my music magazine would be directed at both genders aged from 15-25. I wanted to target this audience as didn’t want to have sophisticated and serious journalism in my magazine and I wanted it to be different compared to popular magazine such as NME and Rolling Stones magazines.

Making a questionnaire with these ideas helps me to see what genre of music they target audience would prefer a indie-rock music magazine. By making a indie-rock magazine I was confident I was able to portray the look I wanted as I prefer indie- rock music and I would be able to know what the fans of this genre likes.

As I descried on making a indie-rock magazine I began to look at other indie-rock magazines that there already are such as NME and Rolling Stones to help me get a idea on how I should layout my magazine and how I should intise the readers to my magazine.

REPRESENTING SOCIAL GROUPS In the two indie-rock magazine I looked at before making my magazine NME and

Rolling Stones I looked to see who the popular artists where in them magazines. A list of them where Foo Fighters, Jake Bugg, Artic Monkeys, Haim, Noel Gallher, 1971,James Bay, Fallout Boy,Eille Goulding

I felt it was important that I should use the way these artist dress as inspiration on how I should present the artist in my magazine so they would be able to appeal to my target audience and attract them to read the magazine.

The colour scheme I used throughout my magazine conveys the audience im aiming to attact and the social group I am representing. From my target audience questionnaire I found out that the colours that they would like to see where red, black and white. By using the colour black helps to convey that my media product is of indie-rock genre as the colour black is assocaitated with rock music and by using white and fierce red help to create a modern, indie colour combination that conveys the indie-rock genre.

By doing so I was able to estbalishe my house style of the magazine. I feel that my magazine will appel to both males and females because of the netural colurs that I have used as they aren’t to femine or masulcant.