Over half term, create an audience profile. This is a professional example as made by the music magazine NME:
- Who would be the audience for your media product?
- Consider the age and gender of your target audience. Link this to the content and style of your product.
- Devise a reader profile for your magazine: create a colourful graphic page with all the relavant information about your target reader, like the one made by NME.
- NME reader profile
- NME reader profile PDF
- You can learn a lot about audience profiling from the professionals: here is Sky TV audience research. Note key terms relating to codes and conventions.
PLANNING OUR VIEWER PROFILE
Step 1: Make an entry in your Production Log like the one below, with the title 'Planning our viewer profile'. The aim is to jot down an outline picture of your target audience.
Today I started making outline notes about what my target audience for Out Of Sight was like:
Age group: 18-40+, young adults
Gender: both men and women
They are likely to watch TV programmes such as Danish TVdrama (The Killing and Borgen), Sherlock Holmes,
They are likey to see at the cinema: Twilight, Inception,Se7en, The
Dark Knight, Sin City, Hannibal, Panic Room, The Taking of Pelham
1,2,3, Law Abiding Citizen, Angels and Demons, Public Enemies, Road
To Perdition, Batman, Ronin, Another 48 Hours, Primal Fear, Gangster
No.1
In their leisure time, they will visit YouTube, play video games,
download movies, drink Costa coffee / Starbucks; eat at Pizza Express,
MacDonald's, Subway or Cafe Rouge
Clothes: H & M, River Island, Fat Face, Top Shop
Media: iPhone or Blackberry for internet on the move; Mac Book or iPad
to see movies, play games, browse and shop; Face Book for conecting
to friends
Step 2: Collect internet images of some of these ideas above. Make a folder for the images so that they are all together and ready for next lesson when we will make a collage in Photo Shop, as in the example below.
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| Lewis Harland: audience profile for Out Of Sight 2012 |
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| Will Wright: audience profile for The Black Rose 2012 |
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