Target Audience Analysis

As for the front cover XXL they attract there target audience as they have big famous known male hip-hop/rapper artist. This will help attract there target audience as one of their target audience is teenager/young girls, because girls are most likely to know these artist especially Diggy Simmons, Lil Twist as they are around some of their ages. Another target audience is teenagers/young adults boys, as they have this idea that theses artist are some of their role models as if they want to purpose a career in the music hip-hop/rapper industries that these are some of the people that they aspire to be in the future.

As the front cover appeals to the target audience that this gives them an inside of what the magazine is all about, as they have established their genre from the front cover

as well as the target audience. The front cover appeals to the target audience as there are a lot of things going on in the front cover, as this issue is the 4thAnnual Freshmen Issue, suggesting that if you are not freshmen in college that this is not the magazine for you. As the front cover appeals the target audience as there is little cover lines which this might imply that the magazine just want their target audience to be aware of the front cover and nothing else, as there is information about the recession is over and they’ve got 11, which may be implying that they have 11 new artist, as in the main image there is 11 models, as there props they have used it would be found in the class rooms.

As the front cover appeals to the target audience the issue features the ten picks of whom to watch out for, and on the cover of the magazine and showcases new rappers that aren't well known, but are considered to be on the rise. As the list has become known to create buzz and is credited for giving many artists their first taste of fame.

As for the content page on KERRANG, it appeals to their target audience as they have a competition to win Metallica shoes, which refers to the target audience as it indicates to the people whose genre of music is rock music or their target audience may be for people who just want to have free shoes.

It also helps appeal to the target audience as there is sub heading in the content which with information about them, as this gives the inside to help the target audience in which section that they want to look at as if they want to have posters of the rock bands, or information of festive the content page will help the target audience analysis what they want

out of the magazine.

Also the masthead helps appeal to the target audience, as there is information of what the magazine is all about which is dedicated to finding out more information to do with the magazine and also the latest information on the current bands and upcoming events of New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the rise of hard rock acts.

There is also a message from the editor which helps appeal to the target audience as the editor refers to the audience as he explains brief information of why the audience/reader will want to read a rock magazine. There is also an atmosphere of the editor is being funny, cheerful, as he is trying to engage the audience to give it a lively mood and feeling about the magazine that it is not just a rock magazine but there is some playfulness to the magazines that would make the audience want to read another issue of the magazine.

The article helps appeal to the target audience as Vibe has made on article which is a double page as it is focusing on a huge mega start in the music industry Bruno Mars. This will help appeal to the target audience as it may be aimed at people who like to listen to Bruno mars music, or people whose music genre is pop.

As the article of Bruno mars helps appeal to the target audience as it is explaining about how he rose to fame very quickly even if he wasn’t singing as he has been nominated for 7 Grammy awards in the same year. Vibe helps appeal this article to the target audience as they have given the audience an inside of the background history of Bruno mars life.

The texts help appeal to the audience as it is a mixture of big and small paragraph, which shows the audience there is something to read, as they would not get uninterested by reader the audience as most audience would not read every single paragraph. There are also sub-headings, which show what the paragraph or the question is all about, this helps the audience to identify what the paragraph is all about without having to think of them.

The image helps appeal to the target audience as it is on one full page, as Bruno mars stance is strong which makes him the main focal point and draws the reader’s attention. The dark blue has also been used as this helps shows that minimal colour scheme has been used to influences the reader. Also the layout helps appeal to the audience as the whole style of the double page spread is very simple and clean, as there is not much going on in the article which could help distract the reader and not pay attention on the article Vibe has done.