Evaluation 4 final

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my music magazine would be females and males aged 16-25 years old with a disposable income e.g students. It's also important that the audience have an interest in the electro/indie genre of the magazine as i have conveyed this genre with the bands features on the cover (Vex) and contents page, i've created a band that are of a similar age to readers and the language used in the magazine is informal, making it easy for teenagers/young people to read and enjoy.

audience profiles

Name: James Jones

Occupation: Student 

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Music taste: The Horrors, Howler, Bombay Bicycle ckub, Friendly fires. Here are just a few of his favourites and an idea of the indie genre James like to listen to/buy.

Location: East London

Shops: For clothing James often shops at highstreet and vintage stores such as, Urban outfittes, Cow, Beyond retro. When it comes to buying music James often downloads free mixtapes of new artists from Soundcloud. He occasionally buys vinyl discs from independent music stores as, in his opinion they have a nicer sound.

James Jones is similar to my audience profile. Music taste can be extremely varied, however my music magazine features indie, electonica bands as well as a mixture of the two. With James having an indie/rock music taste, disposable income (student) and individual style he would be a perfect example of the target audience i am aiming my magazine at.

Name: Kate fields 

Occupation: Part time photographer and student studying music/music production.

Age: 22

Gender: Female

Music taste: electronica/house music. Listens to bands such as SBKRKT, The xx, James blake, Gang colours and Shangaan shake.

Location: Manchester 

Shops: Kate buys most of her music online. She also creates her own playlists using different softwares, one being Spotify. As for clothing, she shops at Topshop, Vintage stores or charity shops due to her being a student and not having that much money to spend on clothes.

Considering that Kate enjoys listening to electronic bands and is studying music, she would fit the target audience that 'Download' is aimed at. The only issue with having an audience of 16-25 year olds is that some may still be in education/ at university. Meaning they most likely have depts to pay off or are tight for money. This is something i had to consider when making my music magazine. However i believe i have overcome the obstacle and priced the magazine reasonable (for a weekly magazine) at £2.75.