Questionare.

When planning my music magazine, I had done a questionnaire as part of my research. I asked 10 students of the age who would have read my music magazine which was 16 and 17 years old. The Adolescence's were of both male and female. These are the results i had found that i then produced into graphs...

The conclusion that I had drawn from the studies that I had gathered was that nobody actually goes out of their way to read a music magazine, this is because maybe everything that they have in magazines usually appear on music channels already nonstop and also on radio stations. So the information is usually constantly always being fired at you for free, so there is no need to go out and buy a magazine. Majority of the time magazines are usually costly anyways, as they are ram packed with information and as they want them to look appealing and professional usually processed with high quality in using high quality paper. The majority of people who I had carried out my research on had preferred a full size A4 magazine to the convenient A5 one. This may have been because they liked images in full sized, and the information spread out over many pages. They may find presentation on a music magazine a vital part of its aesthetics, when it comes to wanting to purchases a certain magazine. Also they may think that the smaller the magazine the less information that may actually be in there, so by getting a bigger magazine may result in more information, for the better value of your money. Generally with music magazines, my studies showed that minority of people would actually a buy a magazine this was 3/10 people, and 2/10 people said they would borrow a magazine. The remaining 5/10 people said they would do borrow a magazine. Suggesting that it’s not a priority and maybe not even worth the trouble or time to go out and buy a magazine, which you could get via television programmes, Internet or radio. This then leads on to my next findings as the decisions was split 50/50 as there was no higher result for people who had preferred an online magazine to a paper printed magazine. Magazines didn't seem that popular especially as only 1/10 people said that they actually subscribe to the magazine, the rest don't find magazines that worthwhile and or interesting in order to have to subscribe to a magazine. The result out of my ten questions that got the most straight forward answer without no complications was the question dealing with gender based magazines, 10/10 people said that they would prefer a magazine that catered for both genders, not just girls or a boy magazine. This is a good thing, and easy for a publisher of a magazine as because they can then cater for both genders dealing with one magazine. However the complications that could arise when dealing with this is that you may prioritise a particular sex, by accident without knowing it when creating your own magazine. I discussed the issues with a specific colour when you buy a magazine and what information you got or interpreted when you looking in at a magazine, the colour pink got the stereotypical role of it being a girly magazine as usual, and for younger readers. A particular genre that came up when talking about the colour pink was pop. The colour blue also had the typical stereotype was it being for boys, but it also had suggested maybe the colour blue was for calmer readers. Black had the connotations of being for genres such as Emo, Rock and Punk, this was because these may had been seen as dark and aggressive. The colour white had been suggested that these magazines with these particular colours may have been for older generations, magazines such as weddings ect. It represented purity. Red was somewhat aggressive, even ambiguous. As it gave two meanings that somewhat contradicted itself, for example red suggested love and romance where as on the other hand it was suggested it was seen to be aggressive and blood. Another aesthetic situation that arises when dealing with a cover of a magazine is what is actually on it. People I asked, about magazine front covers are that what they find more appealing, what captivates them in order to having to buy magazines. They had said that the main thing was the centre image like the celebrity that appears on the cover, and or the headline. These two categories had 5 points each. Freebies then got 3 points, this I what motivates an end user. It makes them feel that the magazine is worthwhile when it comes free with a gift. With 2 points each was the actual colour of the magazine and the puffs. The least important was the actual name of the magazine, they didn't consider whether the magazine was name brand or not. This wasn't relevant to them.