AICE Media studies blog

              Target Audience Research for                                    "Mother Earth Living "- Vivian Fundora        A fter researching Mother Earth Living online, I gathered the fundamental information to confirm the legitimate audience of this magazine. These finding gave me a clear sense of what type of people this specific genre attracts and helped me make out what specific target audience I want to cater to when designing my very own.        This magazine initially had been named "Natural Home and Garden"; although, it focused primarily on aspects of building homes with other types of material such as straw and things as such. The magazine contained interesting information of these elements but there was an issue; there wasn't a sufficient mass of audience that would be reading these articles to support this type of magazine. They ,then, knew they would have to alter some of their focuses while still maintaining their original goal: to surrou

            Codes and conventions of "Mother Earth Living"  Cover                         To further consider what I will be including in my magazine, i've come to analyze yet another magazine. I've chosen to look into the magazine titled "Mother Earth Living" because it is closely related to what I am basing my own magazine on. It mainly focuses on the holistic and medicinal uses of natural resources from our earth. By looking into the different issue covers, I identified their codes and conventions.        Symbolic codes play a major role in the magazines covers  introducing their unique topics. The setting in this magazine can give a general feel of what the issue will be related to. In the June 2018 issue, the cover of the magazine is taking place outdoors in what seems like a backyard, embellished with a set of lavender flowers. This symbolizes that this issue will perhaps deal with outdoor gardening and useful yard work strategies. In my magazine