Drew, Interactive Media Student.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Target Audience for my Portfolio

Target Audience 1

Audrey is a 40 year old female member of the board of examiners for BTEC, her pay is based on a per visit basis and would receive £100 for one of these visits. Audrey also works part time with computers on a day to day basis, within her working hours she would mainly use it for email and word processing. Her online experience is somewhere between newbie and experienced as she has little time outside of her working life to use a computer as she is married with two children to whom she devotes most of her free time. Her online activity would range between 4-6 hrs per week. Her connectivity is through her works computer and occasionally her home computer to check emails both of which use a modem connection. She has an 8mb broadband connection, internet explorer 7 and a 17” monitor. The types of sites visited are Amazon, Yahoo Mail, Ebay, Tesco online and Wikipedia. Online purchases are very rare and would only be one every two months.

Target Audience 2

Seymour is a 35 year old male who is Lead Designer within a medium sized design company based in London. Seymour earns £50k per annum and works in an open plan office with his team of designers. Seymour lives with her long term fiancé in a flat on the outskirts of London and commutes to work on the train. He takes an active interest in technology and the creative arts but also takes an interest in football and socialising with friends. At work Seymour uses a desktop Mac to do various design jobs but also has a Laptop provided by the company for which he uses email and the internet outside of working hours. His internet access is through Firefox and uses an 8mb modem connection. Seymour uses the internet to access email, browse competitors, carry out research and shop online. Sites visited are Corbis, Yahoo, Itunes, Play, Amazon, ASOS and Halifax. Online purchases would be between 1 and 2 per week. Seymour accesses the internet regularly for up to 5 hrs per day and is very savvy with internet use.

Target Audience 3

Matthew is a 30 yr old male Dentist who owns his own apartment in Spain. Matthew, outside of his own use of his apartment, lets it out to people who wish to book their own flight and accommodation for their holidays. The site is the primary and only source of the apartments advertising and is in need of a redesign as it lacks in a professional and aesthetically pleasing appearance. Matthew uses the internet to bank online and uses email but doesn’t have very much use of it outside of this. He uses a desktop PC from home with a 20” widescreen that has a 2mb broadband connection and uses Internet Explorer 7. His online activity ranges between one and two hours per day and he is experienced within his use. He enjoys time with friends in his spare time and is currently in a long term relationship.

5 Comments:

At Friday, January 25, 2008 at 4:29:00 PM GMT, Blogger Suzanne Hullah said...

A very strong set of target audiences there Drew. Could a fourth target audience of students not be considered? As already mentioned to Julian, before I started this course I was pointed in the direction of current/previous student's portfolios to get a general idea of the work involved - so in the future, that portfolio could be yours.

It may even get a link on the HND website!

 
At Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 7:34:00 PM GMT, Blogger Mirhad Kalabic said...

Drew, Your target audiences are nicely worded but, don't you see your tutor as on of the top, if not you main target audience seen as he will actually be the one marking it?

 
At Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 8:20:00 PM GMT, Blogger Craig Burgess said...

I'm not really sure how a member of the board of examiners would be one of your main target audiences, especially not the top one. And I'm not sure that a lead designer from a London agency is a very realistic secondary target audience.

Consider that your designers target audience would probably be a small design agency based in Yorkshire or the surrounding areas.

And like Mirhad said, wouldn't your top target audience be the course leader?

 
At Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 9:20:00 PM GMT, Blogger DREW said...

Thanks for your comments, I have put an external examiner as the first target audience to make the point it is being graded and marked for college. In doing this I felt it covered the fact that it would be marked by college tutors.

@Craig, when I finish this course I will be applying for jobs in London in addition to locally and also in Manchester. As a wise man once said 'Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land among the stars'.

 
At Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 11:32:00 PM GMT, Blogger Craig Burgess said...

There's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars Drew! I'd never knock that. I was just speaking in terms of your presentation and the order of your target audiences.

Regardless of location, I still think small design agencies would be a more realistic goal as these type of businesses make up the majority of design agencies in this country.

 

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