Main Task: Audience Research

While profiling my audience I thought about what type of people I would ask and where I would ask them the questions. I thought of common social media applications that I had. Applications such as Facebook and Blackberry messenger. I chose Blackberry messenger because I knew I would get answers quickly, whereas Facebook would take some time.

I picked three random contacts with different insights on music and how it made them feel. My aim was to have some understanding of what my target audience would be for my magazine and which one I could relate to the most.

1. Are you interested in music magazines and why?


This answer given gave me some underlining factors about magazine and what my target audience would be looking for and what attracts them and in the case one of them was fashion.

How does RnB inspire you?

I purposely said RnB as my music genre because that was the only genre in music that I was truly aware of. Similar to this i was unaware as to what gender I was focused on, hence the reason why I chose to talk to a male in this particular research.

With the response that I got from him I knew that my male audience will not be as engaged because music didn't inspire them to do anything, whereas for females it was the opposite. In addition to this if I chose female as my target audience I would have more to relate to and addition things to write about. This would make things easier for me.

3.What inspires you to listen to music?

Similar to my previous question that was asked to the male, I thought it would be better if I changed the concept of the question to see if I would get a different answer. In addition to this focusing on a female audience was beginning to be my favourable choice because I was able to relate more to them.

when I had asked the question the response gave me an idea of how I wanted my magazine to influence my target audience. I wanted them to be motivated, so they didn't feel as if they needed to relay on anyone but then still had fun and made themselves feel good by knowing the new fashion trends and feel good about themselves. With this information I had the foundation of what I wanted to base my magazine on.