5. How did you attract/ address your audience?

Being a fan of hip hop and a reader of hip hop magazines i didn't find it difficult to know how to address and attract my audience as i have an idea too what readers want (in my perspective).
So what i tried to do was try and attract myself to the magazine and address it as if it was me that was buying and reading the magazine.

There were a few ways that i did notice that would have attracted me to the magazine, such as;

The front cover picture looked quite appealing and and stylish, the sungalsses look especially cool as it looks like a dark setting but still the guy is wearing sunglasses, it sort of gives it a mysterious feel about the person like "do you really know this person?". Also as the picture was taken in a dark setting the flash on the face of the person makes him stand out on the page and makes him look important which appealed to me and i think will appeal to other hip hop magazine readers.

Another way i tried to attract and address my audience was the kind of colours i used. In the whole magazine i only used two colours, white and red. to me this is attracting as it makes the magazine look simple but stylish as the two colours both work well together. They also help the headlines i used stand out on the front cover especially as the background picture is very dark.

I also gave the major headings a slant which i feel gives them more effect and importance than if they were just straight.

But the major thing that i think would attract my target audience would be the pictures i used. Alot of people commented on them, some saying that it looked like the front cover of flo-rida's new albumn (Flo-rida being a hip hop artist), and someone said the picture looked like jay-z another hip hop artist. So i think the pictures created a hip hop feel about the magazine with just one look at the front page, and so i think if a hip hop fan was to see this magazine on a shelf in a store i'm sure that they would be tempted to buy it.