Evaluation - question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The gender of my target audience that my magazine would appeal to is both male and female. I think that the majority of my audience would be males as rock culture is mainly occupied by the male gender. This can be seen through the lack of female rock stars and the large amount of male rock stars and the male following that these rock stars have. Therefore, my magazine will appeal to the male gender more as it features a male star on the cover. However, it will also appeal to the female gender as well depending on their wants and needs and what music appeals to them.

The age of my audience that will find the magazine appealing is around the 18 - 65 range. This is because they will possibly have a better knowledge and interest on older rock bands and therefore, would find this style of magazine more interesting than the lower age ranges, as they will be interested in the modern rock era. I have found this out from a website called Edisons Research where they talk about the Classic rocks demographic Cliff and who it appeals to.

My magazine could appeal to people of British/american nationality and people of all ethnicity's as Britain and America have a diverse range of ethnicity's and cultures. This could be due to the fact that my publisher is well know throughout Britain, as TeamRock are one of the most consumed magazines in Britain as they have a circulation of around 56,714 magazines. This suggests that my magazine would appeal to the British audience as their are a large amount of rock fans who like to buy rock magazines. My magazine will also appeal to people of American ethnicity, as my magazine features a lot of well known American rock stars in my contents that have a huge fan base in America, like Jimi Hendricks and Slash. Therefore, this would appeal to Americans as it contains a lot of American rock culture which would appeal to them

The class that my magazine would appeal to is the stereotypical lower working class. This is because rock culture can be described as rough, due to the appearance of the rock stars, like tattoos and piercings. Therefore, this will appeal to the lower class as stereotypical representations of the lower working class tend to be in labor jobs, which are physically demanding jobs and they also are stereotypically covered in tattoos which suits the rock genre. However, there are multiple different genres of rock like country rock which could stereotypically appeal to the middle and higher class people as stereotypically, more rural areas stereotypically contain more upper class people so country rock could appeal to them.

Slash - Rock star