1. Aaron Thomas – Magazine
survey
Questionnaire results (each bullet
point is what my audience ticked
from the questions)

2. How old are you?
I asked this question to start off
my interview lightly and to get an
understanding of the accurate
target audience who are
interested in the genre of my
music magazine.
As you can see, people between
a 16-20 age range were picked
for the survey. This is because I
can help relate my magazine to
their needs as teenagers are
stereotypically more judgemental
at their specific age of childhood.
Therefore, I wanted to receive
more trustworthy results to give
me strong ideas for my main task.
Question 1
16-20
15 or under
26-30

3. How much money would you normally buy a magazine
for?
I asked this question to get a
strong understanding of
how much money my
audience will buy my
magazine for. It is important
to get a good understanding
of this because if I aim to
high then no one will buy
my magazine and if I set my
price too low, people may
stereotypically judge that
my magazine is bad.
Therefore, I had to choose
the right price value for my
magazine.
Question 2
$2.00
$1.00
$1.50
$2.50

4. What do you think is important for the front cover of
the music magazine?
• The majority have stated that a
powerful main image should be the
highlight of my magazine front cover
because it has major importance
within the whole piece of the front
cover. To be honest I agree because my
audience need a ‘star’ (personal
relationship ‘katz’) that they can
receive a personal relationship with. If
my audience can get that instant
relationship with the main image of my
front cover then my audience is most
likely to purchase my magazine
regardless of the price. Therefore, I
need to make sure I use a model that
fits the genre of my magazine by using
props, (instruments and clothes) to
make my model look appealing and
eye-grabbing.
• Bold and colourful text is clearly not
the most essential part of my front
cover because I think that my front
cover may have that slight
disadvantage of becoming messy and
unorganized. Therefore it is best I just
stick with plain black and white text to
write about cover-lines. Better yet, I
could try and use my masthead font
through the page to make my front
cover appear neat and noticeable.
Question 3
A powerful
main image
Bold and very
colourful text

5. What gender are you?
I asked this question so I can have a rough idea of
what my genre should become of my main task
magazine. If I received more female participants
then my genre should stereotypically be classed as a
pop magazine, because Pop is read by females
rather than males. As you can see, males have
participated in this survey more than females.
So, my genre should be targeted stereotypically
towards a more hip-hop or heavy metal genre.
This structure is important because if I target boys to
read my magazine but create a pop based magazine
then the audience that I initially targeted will be
dissatisfied to read the magazine. Therefore, time
will be wasted making the magazine perfect because
no matter how I amazing my magazine could
look, the targeted gender readership will refuse to
read my magazine.
Question 4
Male
Female

6. What music genre would you rather prefer the
magazine to be about? Tick and specify your answer in
a sentence
Comments
• Rap
• Rap – “Rap songs have a nice and catchy beat.”
• Rap – “because I can rap really fast and I want to learn more.”
• Rap
• Rock – “because I prefer the genre.”
Question 5
Rap
Rock
Pop
From these results, I now know that my magazine should
include: tips and advice on how to rap and also exclusive lyrics
from various artists on their new singles, (Drake/ Chris Brown
and others). However, I want to go with something outside my
comfort zone to gain a better understanding of other music
genres, so I shall base my final magazine designs on a rock
heavy metal genre. Therefore, I will annotate a rock magazine
of inspiration to help make the perfect magazine for my
specific audience. The Pop genre idea for my magazine, has no
results whatsoever, so I will not base my magazine on this type
of genre. I used these 3 genres in particular because they are
the most mainstream genres in today’s society, so that way I
can avoid obtaining biased results effecting my final magazine
design.

7. What masthead (magazine title) do you prefer?
• I asked this question so I have a good
idea of what to call the name of my
magazine. As you can see ‘Roc-O-
Way’ gained the highest results
between ‘Vice’ and ‘Shout-Out’. This
means that in order to satisfy my
readers I will use the masthead ‘Roc-
O-Way’. The name of the
masthead, ‘Roc-O-Way’ denotes the
way my magazine is to to with Rock
and heavy metal artists from the
older and more recognized artists
and bands to the more new artists
and bands. I was inspired to come up
masthead name by reading a rock
magazine. As I saw the main image of
my magazine of inspiration I thought
he looked cool, talented and
important which instantly gave me
the idea of calling my magazine ‘Roc-
O-Way’ because the name of the
magazine can be compared easily
with the thoughts and ideas I had
towards the main image of my
magazine of inspiration.
Question 6
Roc-o-way
Vice
Shout-Out

8. Would you normally buy a music magazine?
(If Yes why would you buy it and if No why wouldn’t you buy a music magazine?)
Comments
• No
• Yes – “Main image such as celebrity juice.”
• No – “Don’t want to waste money on a book.”
• Yes – “To inspire me about singing.”
• Yes – “I want to make sure I’m up to date with
the latest current affairs of the music industry.”
Question 7
No
Yes
I mentioned this question in my survey to give myself some
targets. For example, if people do not normally red a music
magazine then I need to make sure my magazine is perfect
and can appeal to the people who do not normally read
magazines.
I can make my magazine perfect by ensuring the price is
cheap but keep the quality of my front cover eye-
catching, (“don’t want to waste money on a book”).
However, if people do normally buy music magazines then I
have to ensure that I create the magazine in a way that can
appeal to occasional readers and this can be done by
carefully repeating codes and convention from my magazine
of inspiration.