Who would be the audience for your media product?

The above picture is an image with pictures of people who could be considered representative of the target audience of my magazine. The age range i'm targeting with my magazine is late teens to early twenties males and females. The psychographic for the target audience would be people who listen to music a great deal and who would say music is a very big part of their life. They're the kind of people who go to gigs a lot and hang around after for ages for the oppurtunity to meet the band. They know all the lyrics to their favourite bands songs and have lots of band merchandise and posters. They arrive to gigs a couple of hours before the doors open so they can get to the front, and they always have standing tickets.

The music tastes of the target audience are bands like Paramore, My Chemical Romance and also Blink 182. The music taste is quite broad because the genre of music the magazine caters to is Alternative and a lot of different sounding bands would be considered as this genre.

The shopping habits of the target audience would be CDs, gigs tickets, band merchandise and also DVDs. The films they would be into would be horror/sci-fi/fantasy. However they could also be into other films.

A stereotypical view of the target audience would be that they are quite weird. Emos/Goths etc would be considered part of the target audience.

The target audience doesn't really fit into any of the categories like ABC1s because they're at an age where they do not have their own income.

I feel that these types of people would buy my magazine because it would include things they are interested. They don't only listen to music, they like to connect with the band, so interviews and factfiles would allow them to do this. They are also very passionate about the music they like so reviews and similar materials would allow them to see what other people think of their favourite bands music. Also as they attend a lot of gigs, the gig sections and festivals section of my magazine would be very interesting to them. My magazine would also include posters so they could stick the posters up to show their love for the favourite artists/bands.

The products that would be advertised in my magazine would be CDs, DVDs, musical instruments, gig tickets and band merchandise. All of these products would be very appealing to the target audiece that my magazine is focussed on.