Questionaire Results.

When i created my blog, i had made a questionnaire, i did this so i could see what my target audience was interested in. In doing this, i found out what there likes and expectations are from a music magazine.

The questionnaire has helped me greatly, as it has allowed me to get feedback of what my audience thinks of my ideas and interests, also i could see what my target audience liked.

The questions i asked where simple, so i could just get a general idea.

The first and most important question, i think, was to ask what genre of music was most popular amongst my target audience, all the votes part from two went to Drum&Bass/Dubstep. This is good as this is what i wanted from my target audience, the other vote went to Indie/Rock, this is also good because some artist from this genre i have chosen to mention in my magazine. The over vote went to R&B/Pop, this genre of music would not fit into my magazine, although there is possibilities where it could meet the genre to be in my magazine.

The second question i had asked was if my target audience was male of female, these answers resulted in being pretty much equal, Female being 7 and male being 6, this is perfect because there is not a clear distinguish between the gender audience, this could show that my magazines target audience is equal and attracts both genders, making it more popular.

Another important question i had chose to use was what age are you? This would tell me that roughly what age my target audience, this gives me an advantage as i could find ways to appeal to their age group. The answers resulted in the majority being 17 to 18, two votes on 16 and another two on being 19+. This question results feedback was also good, and worked to an advantage for me, because the majority vote went towards older teenagers. I think this is positive feedback because of this age group, they are able to appeal to an more of an intellectual standard then what most younger teenagers would do.

Another question i had asked was what catches your eye most when buying a magazine. I asked this question so i could try put most of their inputs into my magazine. The majority of this vote went too images and then secondly the stories. I have tried to incorporate this into my work, and trying to put as many images on the pages i can, excluding the double page spread because i thought it would work best with just the one image. Also i have tried to make the stories most appealing and interesting, so it would attract the readers attention. I added stories to my contents page that i thought would appeal to all the readers, such as people that may be attending festivals, i had added a story about that. Also a story about bands, mainly boy bands i also added a story about them. I tried too appeal to all kind of ideas the reader my have, hoping that it would attract them to my magazine.

The next question i had asked was how often would you buy a music magazine? By asking this question i was able to see how important music magazines where to people. The results of this magazine where what i expected, the majority the voters had voted on 'Every now and then', this is because people only wish to know about music when it would appeal to them. Not like a normal magazine such as 'Heat' or 'Closer', this would appeal to some people the majority of the time.

The following question was to support the question previously, and it was how much would you spend on a music magazine? This answer would help me price my music magazine at a reasonable and fair cost, also one that would appeal to my target audience. The majority of the results was £3-4, this is a good result as this is what magazines would averagely cost. After i had this feedback i choose to price my magazine at £3.00, which according to my results is what would appeal to the audience the most.

As i found the contents page hardest to fill, i had decided to ask the question to keep you fascinated in a contents page, what would best attract you? By asking this question i was able to see what i could use. This question would also work out to my advantage as it allowed me to focus on three main things which according my results was, images, stories and bright colors. As i had all ready chose a color scheme i could not use bright colors, but i think red is a bright color, as it would stand out against white and black. I also had to focus on images, as that got the most votes, i had used three image, one big one and two little ones taking up a third of the bottom of the page. This would make the audience concentrate on the images, as well as the stories. The final focus which got the second amount votes was to focus on the stories, i had said before i would do this by appealing to all different views of my target audience.

Again, i had asked the same question as previously, but about the double page spread. This was also i could appeal to what the target audience would want the most. The majority of the vote was on a new artist this again would allow me to focus on one artist as it would appeal to my target audience. The second most popular answer was new festivals/raves, as this was not as popular as the artist i chose to use an artist for my main story, but i incorporated my second most popular answer which was about the festivals/raves. This would appeal to both audiences as it answers to both my popular answers.

Finally my last question was asked because i was indecisive about the name of my magazine. I had asked the audience what would name for a magazine would attract you the most?

This was so i could get a feedback on what name would be most effective to the readers.

The most popular answer which i was most comfortable about, was having the name as 'Crank', this worked out for the best because the style of the name and the effect it gave the readers would all fit and tie in with my magazine.