Audience Research/Feedback (Main Task)

These are the answers that I received for the questions that I posted on my blog about my magazine, that will be useful for my evaluation.

Question 1: Who are the target audience of my magazine? What age, gender, ethnicity, class are they?

• Christians of all ages and classes
• Christians aged 16-19, white, middle-/working-class
• Ages 14-24, mainly female, all ethnicities and classes

Question 2: How are listeners of Contemporary Christian Music represented? Please describe in terms of how people of different ethnicities, genders and ages are represented in my magazine, and whether or not this reinforces any stereotypes.

• Laid back and chilled
• White females aged 16-19 are represented as creative and established but boring
• Reinforces white stereotypes of creativeness, but isolated
• Calm, quiet, collective, simple
• Younger people are represented as more mature and able to fit in with the older generation
• Conforms to white Christian stereotypes of naturism
• Presented as being anyone who is interested in a livelier form of worship, but mostly white females
• Goes against stereotypes of churchgoers being of the older generation

Question 3: Which elements of my magazine do you like?

• The colour scheme is well suited for the target audience
• The DPS is good
• The layout and the friendly, upbeat tone of the narrative

Question 4: Which elements of the magazine could be improved?

• The skylines could have been a darker colour
• The text over the photos could have been clearer

Question 5: What technical skills - on Photoshop and InDesign - could be improved?

• "I don't think any technical skills [could] be improved"
• "Happy with presentation"