Friday, 15 January 2010

Reviewing feedback from questionnaire

Both boys and girls have done my questionnaire. These cover a wide range of ages from 16 onwards but I think I will reduce my audience age to 14 as it will cover a wider range. There were quite a range of music magazines that people had read. These included Kerrang, NME and Q which are some of the magazines I have looked at during this course.
I found that music magazines where usually read quite inconstantly and mainly brought because of an interest in a certain band or topic not as a regular thing. The music listened to varied a lot. These were rock, pop, indie, hip hop, Jazz, Blues, skater rock and old rock. This showed me that there was no fixed genre that would please everyone. When asked 'Would you like a music magazine to contain features on other topics such as fashion, celebrity gossip etc?' most people agreed that they wouldn't and would rather it was based on music, band members and interviews. Ideas of names were things like sounds, jamming, solo were suggested as good starting points. The price was mainly based around £3 I felt this was a fair price as it wasn't to expensive. There was quite a debate over what colours should be used. One suggestion was that it depended on the type of music, dark colours for rock music, bright colours such as greens and blues for pop music etc. Many thought it was better to restrict the colours to no more than 3 colours and some of the colours suggested were red, white and black.
The most common reasons for buying seemed to be for entertainment, front cover and interviews. When asked what parts of the magazine they preferred people said articles, interviews and front cover. The things that make a good magazine are something that catches my eye on the cover, some interesting things about all different topics inside, interview, free gifts, Images, interviews, limited text and gripping articles.

I have learnt from this that my magazines audience should be boys and girls around the age 16+. There should be a varied music genre so it can cater for everyone. It should be £3 and should contain interviews, articles and interesting/ gripping topics. I am still unsure as to a main idea but i know have an idea about what my target audience would like.

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