Question five -

To ensure my music magazine appeals to my target audience of 'indie kids' I have followed already existent music magazines of the same music genre conventions. I did extensive research and planning which enabled me to select colours for my magazine which collocate the style of indie kids; I selected red black and white as my house colour theme as the black and white are to reflect the norm population and the red is to reflect the indie kid population who stand out from the norm and go against all the conventions. I then went on to the use of photographs to attract the target audience, I used costumes which resemble the clothing indie pop artists wear which will instantly exemplify the genre of the magazine to the public resulting in interest from the target audience. I researched indie pop magazines to find out what poses the models used, I found out they were often stern faced or not looking at the camera and so I conveyed these looks in my photo shoots. Although I stuck to most of the conventions I decided to go against the idea of a male being the main powerful figure and used a female model on my cover page, my idea behind this was to use her as a tool to attract both sexes, in hope the females would idolize her and the males would see her as a sexual symbol.
My initial magazine was not up to the standards of a professional magazine, the photos were out of focus and took in back grounds which has no relevance to the genre of the magazine- therefore I changed these photos by retaking new ones and using photo shop to edit certain aspects of the back ground. Also, the text on my rough cut was very spaced out and in a large font, thus it was both out of proportion and the placement was poor quality- therefore when creating my final magazine I drastically changed the text (especially on the front cover) so it was both more in keeping and more professional.

I printed my complete magazine off and created a questionnaire and handed them both out to a10 members of my target audience, the questions in my questionnaire were:
1 - what draws your attention to your product?
2 - what genre is the magazine and what tells you this?
3 - what do you consider as the strengths of the product?
4 - what do you consider as the weakness of the product?
5 - what social groups does it represent?
6 - would you purchase this product and why?
7 - how would you improve this product?

I found a similar set of answers through out the ten questionnaire forms, below I have stated the general answers I recieved as feedback to my media product:
1- The red text.
    The models green dress.
    The large, bright and interesting font on the title.
2- Indie, because the way the girl is dressed on the front.
    A twist on indie, indie pop,  because the mash up between the girls outfit and the text on the title.
3- The professional over look of the full product.
    The photograph on the double page spread.
     The layout of the contents page, its easy to navigate round.
4- There could be a skyline.
5- Teens.
     Teenage females and males.
     Anyone interested in indie popy music.
6- Yes, it is eye catching and looks professional.
     Yes because it looks interesting and full of content.
     Yes, it is my type of music genre.
     Yes, it looks modern and looks like it is full of exclusives.
7- Write the word indie-pop on the magazine cover so people who don't know the music can get into it.
    Add more colour.