Evaluation Question 4 - Target Audience

Who would be the audience for your media product?

For my magazine i have chosen an audience of rock fans because rock is a type of music which i am very familiar with, this would help me to create a very effective and eye-catching magazine to attract my target audience.

This is a picture i took off of my freinds facebook account to represent my target audience, im sure there are better images which i could annotate, however this one had three people in it which makes it easier to annotatefacial emotions and what they are doing (more people, more things to annotate).
      Facial emotions - Their facial emotions indicate that the guy down the bottom is crazy, this facial emotion is often used by rock artists as an angry gesture which is mostly used in punk and heavy rock.
      Clothing - These people are wearing generally average clothing which is casual, not particularly dark and normal for everyday casual wear.
      Guitar - These people are holding electric guitars which obviously shows that they are rock fans and players.

My audience (rock fans) are known to be crazy and strange, depending on their taste in what type of rock music, heavy metal, gothic, acoustic and there are more types. Each of these seperate rock types have a seperate audience, the picture above shows heavy metal / gothic rock fans, they like to dress up in leather and metal gear, however acoustic rock fans like to adjust their clothing to what is in fashion. Rock fans are not known to have shopping addictions or interests in shopping, or greatly anyway, they are known not to be scared of horror films or to throw up over gory films, they are pretty much okay with almost everything when it comes to films, although they probably dont watch very romantic movies which is pretty obvious because of their aggresive and crazy behaviour.

This audience would want to purchase my magazine because my magazine is very well fitted for their benefits, it includes information about rock bands(old and new), gigs, freebies, and advertisements for music products including amplifiers, guitars and more music equipment.

Im not planning on making my magazine have truck loads of advertisements, the types of advertisments which would be presented to my audience would be adverts of rock products such as clothing (jeans), guitars, perhaps music teaching opportunities, drums, instruments in general and other musical products. Honestly not many people are interested in advertisments at all, they just flick through them, but if the right advertisment is applied they might take a moment to look and possibly buy the magazine for the purpose of looking at the advertisements, especially if their thinking of buying a cheap guitar or set of drums in this case.