For this task, we had to choose a magazine cover and analyse it. I spoke about the audience demographics, psychographics, and then also decoded the text. This magazine is specifically about Pride 2020 and music, and so presumably the target audience is people in the LGBTQ+ community and teenagers (Gen-Z) particularly.
We did this to further our knowledge and skills in technical design conventions, these are the elements that help make up a magazine cover. It was also really helpful as I have learned how to analyse a text and connote ideas from features like fonts, colours, images, mastheads and, cover lines. These things all help define the magazine and makes it unique. The colours should be attractive and eyecatching to draw in its audience. The cover lines should also be brief, but interesting and easy to read, if they are dreary and irrelevant it will not attract the reader.
The production of my magazine will be benefitted as I have learned many things during this task, which are all relevant to producing my front cover. I have learned about demographics and psychographics, these are all related to the audience that is consuming the magazine. Demographics talk about things such as their age, gender, class etc. Whereas psychographics are about the person’s interests, political beliefs, opinions, and lifestyles to name a few. I will now be able to figure out who my target audience is and how I can appeal to them using appropriate colours, images, ideas and main cover stars to hook them in.
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