Media Essay

Josh Randle                                                                                                           Media Essay
In this media essay, i am going to be explaining how my research has made me prepare and helped me with my pre-production for my magazine. Textual analysis helped me with how media differs with a range of audiences and also how the media can destroy or praise certain images by stereo typing. This is a key feature i have taken it on in my magazine because without stereo typing, the wrong and different audiences would be attracted to my magazine which would not be very good as they would not buy it, and the audience i am focusing on would not buy my magazine either. I looked at other sports magazines such as sports illustrated for some help and this gave me ideas and gave me an understanding of sports magazines, this also helped me with the type of fonts and set out of the magazine. i started to understand and realize how to organize my title, subheadings and my picture lay out. My survey results gave me ideas and i came to the conclusion that my magazine should be to do with sport. This is because my results showed me that the majority of the people who answered and completed  my survey read sports magazines more than other magazines. In my survey i asked questions such as where and when do people read their magazines and the results showed me that most of the people who answered my survey said they read on the toilet or at places such as hairdressers and barbers. Sports magazines tended to be the favorite and it being the favorite makes it the most popular which means it will be bought more than other magazines.  I am also very interested and know a lot about sport so this works well for me as its very much the kind of magazines i read as well. This has helped me choose my target audience because my survey gave me the results of an audience of an age range of about 20-40 and Male which is going to be the most targeted gender as after all, it is about sports which most men talk about most of their spare time. The male target audience will hopefully be drawn to my magazine as the front cover has a sports headings and it also has a picture of a sports superstar attracting sports fans.Again with the stereotyping, i will be putting a sports star on the front cover with catchy and interesting headlines to draw my audience in, the sports star will attract most male sports fans as he is a loved footballer and he has been injured recently which has heart broken a lot of fans, . i have chosen the target audience gender being male and the age being 20-40 years because generally males love and live sport and especially in between the age i have chosen. This target audience should be a real hit as sport is always an interest towards the target audience.