Friday, 27 September 2013

LOUD! - Reader Profile

This is a reader profile which i created on photoshop for my own magazine; LOUD!.

For the LOUD! logo, i used an online font generator called "Cool Text" and i chose the font "Frosty." I customised the colour scheme of the text in order for it to look relevant to my magazine, and i then pasted it into Microsoft Paint, where i used the line tool to create the 'smashed' effect which Kerrang! has.

Along the bottom half of the page is the general facts which i gathered from my surveys, and along the top half/bottom right, is images which are relevant to my target audience. I've included the topshop and H&M logos, as they were voted as my audience's favourite stores, i have images of video games, TVs and laptops because i found out that my T.A is very fond of technology when it comes to passing time, there is scans of existing rock magazine covers which have inspired me, i've added all the bands which were voted as the favourites in my survey (A day to remember, man overboard, bring me the horizon, biffy clyro and blink-182) and i have included instruments, piercings and tattoos because those 3 are stereo-typically linked to rock music, and it would be appealing to my magazine's viewers.

From thisreader profile, it is clear that the interests of my target audience include:
Gaming, band merchandise, music magazines such as Kerrang and NME, food (i.e. Pizza), books, the internet and a lot of them also enjoy pop punk music, such as the band Man Overboard.

this matches my initial expectations, as i had previously predicted that my target audience would enjoy things such as playing instruments and video games. However, i did not expect my target audience to be such huge fans of topshop and H&M, i expected them to be interested in only band merchandise, shirts etc - not high street clothes. Because of this, i will not include as much band merch ads as i was origninally going to; i will add in perhaps a puff for competitions to do with topshop vouchers etc.

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