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I carried out my survey and got 10 people to fill it out and by using thier results and feedback were able to analyse their results which I have written up below:
1. How old are you ?
I firstly asked this question so i was able to get some information about the participants who are likely to be my target audience so by finding out their age it will help me in directing me to the way I should create my magazine, my knowing the target audience's age I will be able to decide on the style of writing, language used, amount of text, images, what content to include, colours, fonts and many other aspects of my music magazine.
My survey showed on average the age was 18 so I knew i had a teenage audience so had to design my music magazine to attract a younger generation audience.
2. What ethnicity are you ?
This question would also give me information on my target audience so by knowing the general ethnicity who are interested it may influence the genre of the music in the magazine, the style and format of writing, maybe adding a page for a specific ethnicity and may effect other minor details.
As i got very mixed results, it gave me a wide variation of ethnicity's to appeal to therefore gave me a wider audience and allows me to include things from any nationality making my magazine multi culturally attractive.
3. What gender are you ?
The gender of the audience would decide on the style of the magazine and the type of approach i would take when designing it, deciding on the colours and images used. For example, if my whole sample were girls I may have thought of decorating the front colour in pink with girly designs.
Fortunately, I had a 50/50 percentage of boys and girls so I had the choice which gender to appeal more to or to both. By making it for both has more advantages as it will give you a wider audience.
4. What genres of music do you enjoy listening to ?
When creating a music magazine the genre of the music is extremely important when trying to appeal to a certain target audience, so by asking this question the results will show which kind of music culture I should try and represent to attract audience.
As you can see from my results there is a high rise and interest in R&B genre which I also enjoy so I would know what style and form to use when writing for a R&B audience. There is an extreme downfall in classical
music so I know not to include any classical music.
5. How often in a month do you buy a music magazine ?
This question does not really effect my music magazine however, it gives me an idea on if I were to continue making music magazines how often to publish the new ones. It also shows how interested people are in music magazines and weather or not it is the best way to attract my target audiences attention or weather i need to change my target audience to an audience who are more likely to buy music magazines.
My results show that 50% of participants did not buy music magazines at all and the other 50% only bought it 1-5 times a month. Which was a disadvantage for me as I would have to try extra hard to appeal to the public to make teenagers who do not usually buy music magazines to now buy my one.
6. If you don't buy music magazines, why not ? what would make you buy them ?
To help me with my problem of people not buying music magazines from question 5 by asking this question it would help in knowing what I should include to appeal to my audience in order for them to buy it or even be interested.
The answers I got are shown below:
By looking at these answers I knew how to attract the audience more and found effective ways in making my magazine different in order to sell in shops.
7. Do you like seeing the charts in the music magazines ?
When doing my research on already established music magazines I realised that they usually no longer showed the charts in them whereas when looking at much older magazines from 1950s and 60s there were much more reference to the charts. So I was interested to see if this change was because the audience wants it or weather this was a factor effecting the decline in people buying music magazines.
The results showed 85.7% of my participants did want to see the charts and the other 14.3% did not mind so I thought it was useful to include the charts or some form of music listings into my magazine.
8. What attracts you to the front cover of the music magazines ?
This was important information as the front cover was the main attract which would grab the audience into wanting to buy and read my magazine so to know what the audience like on the front cover was helpful when creating my own.
The survey shows people are mostly interested in the celebrities used and the content included on the front cover so I would keep this in my mind when creating my own music magazine front cover.
9. On a scale of 1-10 how interesting and important do you rate the following:
1 being the least 10 being the most.
From this image above it shows that front cover is most important so I will try make my front cover most attractive as it is was draws the audience to the magazine, followed by choice of celebrities which for my magazine will be mainly R&B artists as I found that is what my target audience want by asking from previous questions. Non- music related information seemed to be the least important however, still rated quite highly so i would still included non-music related information in my magazine to add an extra to my music magazine.
10. What else would you like to see in music magazines ?
This would defiantly help me know what to include in my music magazine under the non-music related things and also anything the public would like in music magazines so if they want it and I include it, there more likely to buy it making other people buy it too.
1.Reviews of books and films about music
2.Freebies
3.chances to met celebrities
4.music with more content
5.important concerts that took place in the past
6.free or cheaper tickets to concerts
7.latest gossip, fashion
8.Competitions to win free gig tickets
2.Freebies
3.chances to met celebrities
4.music with more content
5.important concerts that took place in the past
6.free or cheaper tickets to concerts
7.latest gossip, fashion
8.Competitions to win free gig tickets
The list above was what people wanted to see in music magazine so I will try hard to try and include these things in my magazine.
