Q5.  HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?

When designing my magazine I thought about how I would attract my audience and make my magazine stand out if it was on a shelf along with loads more. 

Firstly, when it came to the appearance of the magazine, I thought about different font styles, sizes, colours and boldness and I also thought about what image and colour scheme to use along with the layout and everything else. I decided for my front page to be striking and eye catchy I used a white background with a bold straight forward image bang in the middle. But I then used a big, bold, black font to write my masthead in, I thought this would be simple but eye catchy. However, to make the page look more interesting and not so boring I added a few different cover lines, tag lines and puffs and plugs. However, I was careful not to overcrowd the page. Furthermore, for my individual pieces of text I used a range of red black and white font, I changed the sizes of each piece of text and made a couple of pieces a different font overall. After I had done this, I decided that the page looked very flat and not as interesting as I hoped. Therefore, I clicked on a couple of the text boxes and added drop shadows, this developed the whole page as it made it look more bold and appealing instead of tiresome and tedious.

Lastly, when it came to making my magazine interesting from the context and not just the layout and the way it looked, I brainstormed a few different cover lines and tag lines that I could introduce on my front page. I picked a couple that I thought would not only look the best on the page but also grab the audiences attention, and make the magazine sound more interesting to read. A couple of lines I chose were things that featured inside the magazine and were the main story's and topics of the particular magazine issue, such as; Top 10 Festival Tips, Exclusive interview with Lois Wilkinson, Win TWO free bestival tickets, along with a few others. I thought these lines out of the many I mind-mapped would attract my audience the most.