Evaluation: Q4

4.Who would be the audience for your media product?

In my audience research, it shows that my music magazine targets 14-19 year olds, both male and females. Because the artists I speak about and topics that my magazine discusses are very popular to the younger audience mainly teenagers of a worldwide audience. R&B, Hip Hop and Rap is listened to all over the world in economic countries, such as USA, UK and Europe.

I decided to mainly target a teenage audience both male and females, because the model featured on my front cover is a teenage girl, who will relate to other teenagers her age or around her age group. Also the topics discussed in my magazine appeal to mostly teenagers because they are mostly interested in top music artists such as Drake and Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Jessie J and many more, because their music, personal life and life style interest teenagers.  These artist influence a lot of people, mainly teenagers and young adults, because their music helps inspire wannabe singers and people who desperately want to get into the music business.

Artists like Jessie J, Tyga and Bruno Mars, are not Black African Americans but they still portray R&B, Hip Hop music as a black artist would, like Rihanna for example.  They are from countries like England, Hawaii, Jamaica and Vietnam.  These artists inspire teenagers worldwide who are from countries like them or others, to get into the music industry and become successful as them, without having their nationality being a disadvantage. Therefore the main reason why I included artist like the ones in the pictures above to my magazine are so that I can portray the message what my magazine is trying to get across.

R&B, Hip Hop and Rap is mainly associated with black people, mostly African Americans. My magazine relates to all races, from around the world and targets both male and females.  Because people of the 20^th century mainly listen to R&B, Hip Hop and Rap music and that industry now involves people with different ethnicities that produces good music and I wanted my magazine to portray that and show my target audience that my music magazine is open to anyone to read. I want a variety of people to read my music magazine, without having to leave people out who maybe don’t like this type of genre of music, but still like listening to it.