To get a better idea of our target audience we were tasked with making up a dating profile for an example our target demographic. Using sites such as YouGov I looked into the general interests of people who listen to the bands of my genre, with a common audience of caucasian, white men (often millenials), who share an interest in bands such as Green Day, Blink 182, Nirvana, My Chemical Romance etc.
Creating this profile allowed me to getter a better idea and grasp of not only what the audience is interested in but what their mentality and ideaology is like, all to be considered when designing a magazine targeted towards them. Due to this I can now understand how to encode ideas, imagery and narratives that will appeal to my typical audience member and be decoded by them in preferred reading.