Survey questions and evaluation of answers that I received

What is your gender?

The first question I asked in my survey was

the gender of the people answering the

quiz. I felt it was important to find out as I wanted my magazine to be appealing to both

males and females. I was lucky enough to

have an equal amount of both males and females to give me

feedback regarding my magazines.

What age are you?

The second question i asked was for the age of

people answering the questions in my survey. I wanted to know the age

range of people answering so as to

relate to the age group that I am targeting. The majority of people that answered my survey

were roughly fourteen and above, which is the

target age for my magazine.

If you saw a magazine in a shop what would convince you to buy it?

I asked the question of what would convince

readers to buy the magazine if they saw it in a shop so as to know what I should include on

my title page. The results of this survey

showed that it was the main image that would

convince the target audience to by the magazine. For this

reason i have my main artist as the single

image on the cover so as to draw fans of him

immediately into wanting to read, and

therefore purchase the magazine.

If a magazine offered competitions to win concert tickets would you enter?

I asked this question to find out whether or not it was worth including a

competition in my magazine, and

advertising the fact that there was one included. Due to the feedback i received i felt it would be beneficial to include the offer of a chance to win tickets to the UK’s

hottest festival. I feel as though the inclusion of

this offer will be beneficial in regards to making people more inclined to buy my

magazine.

What colour scheme would most appeal to you?

I wanted to ask people what colour scheme

they thought would best be appropriate for my magazine. The colour

scheme they chose was red+white+black which is one that fits in with

the genre I have chosen for my magazine. I

offered options which were thought common featured on magazines

of the indie rock genre. I have taken this into

account and this colour scheme will be featured, if not on the cover, but within my magazine.

What would you prefer a double page spread to be on?

I wanted to know what people would most

appreciate as the article for my double page spread. The answer strongly sided for an

article on an artist with a new album out. Due to the

results of this feedback this is what I have based my article to be on. As

there were also quite a few votes for it to be about an

up and coming artist, I have included both

elements into the article. For this reason my article is based on an upcoming artist with a new album out, therefore based on

the results it would be an article that people would

want to read.

How much would you pay for a music magazine?

I asked this question to get an understanding as to

roughly how much people would pay for a music

magazine. The majority of people voted the price of £2-£3. This is what I was

expecting, my magazine is not suited towards a vastly upper class target market who may perhaps spend more on a magazine. The price range that received

the highest votes is too the price range for most music

magazines of my genre that are currently out on

the market.

What title is best for a music magazine of the indie genre?

I was very unsure as to choosing a title for my magazine and putting this question into my

survey helped make my decision much easier. I

offered four names white I had come up with and was lucky

enough to have results in which one of them

was quite highly favoured. The

conventions for music magazines of this genre regarding the title are quite simple, there is usually one word or if

more than word words it is just the initials that are used. Examples of

this would be the magazine ‘NME’.

would you rather the magazine had one main image on the cover, or featured a few different images of artists on

the cover also?

Whilst deciding how I would lay out my

magazine cover the inclusion of this question in my survey helped me a great amount. It clarified my original plans to only include one image of the

main artist. This too is often thought common on the majority of magazines,

although many that I looked at for inspiration did include small images at the edge of the cover possibly to promote an

exclusive article or simply to inform the reader of

another artist featured in the magazine from just a quick glance at the cover.

How would you rather know what artists are included in the magazine?

It is evidently important that at a quick glance the

target audience are able to know if their preferred

artists have features in a magazine. I therefore took the answer I received in this survey, altering it

slightly, and put it into use. I do have mention of the featured artists on the

cover, however I have also added an element known as a ‘band index’ in my contents page. This is a

section featured in the left third of the contents page

containing a list of all artists mentioned of

featured in the magazine. Therefore it is easy for the target audience to be able to know what artists are

included in the magazine.