Audience

Whilst working on my magazine I wanted to look at the my target audience and wanted to evaluate whether or not I had not only represented them well but also if I had done well to involve them in the process of creating the front cover of my magazine. Firstly people in my sixth form of course have a whole different range of likes and dislikes, for instance people like rock music some like R and B or some people like more creative subjects like art or more "academic" like ICT  and so on. I had to make a decision on should the layout of the front cover address there interests. I decided not to as this would stereotype the magazine, and although stereotypes are hugely popular in media, I thought that my magazine should be a reflection on everyone in the sixth form not just a particular group.  So for example if you look at the draft for my front cover you notice the lay out if slightly formal and serious, no funky text and its very organised.
Another thing I had to think about is that If I were to create an actual magazine the magazine would likely adapt in time in tune with the people who are likely to buy it. Bot of course this is just my theory.  But I did make sure was that a range of interests were put on the magazine,  so all I did was for example in the contents page I put a picture of students in a ICT class to show the reader that the magazine would reflect there interests but then I included pictures of a art lesson, which once again rein-firms that fact this magazine inst biased towards a particular subject or interest. Another thing to add is that the colours used was also not reflected for instance the magazines primary colours of blue, white, and red was unbiased because it were colours that everyone was familiar with as it was the colours that the school is associated with. So maybe I might have gone about this the wrong way because I never asked the people in sixth form what colours they would like, as I'm sure male and female students opinions on this would differ, therefore It could be seen a neglecting my target audience.