1. Analysis Of Music Magazine
Questionnaire Results

2. Although it seems to be quite a
simplistic question, it will help
me find a colour that most
people will be drawn to on
average. The results show that
Red is the primary preference
when it comes to an
alternative/indie magazine,
although Black and Yellow are
both colours that seem fairly
popular also. This information is
going to be for the font colour or
the masthead colour.

3. This information tells me that my target market (16-
2. How Many Magazines Do You Purchase 20 year olds) largely buy magazines only once a
Each Month? year, although a significant proportion do not buy
magazines and buy them once or twice a month.
No I don't Buy magazines
This question also tells me that not many people
buy magazines every day or regularly or even 3 or 4
Yes, roughly once a year times a month.
I gather from this information that my magazine
Yes, once or twice a month
should be a monthly subscription and not a weekly
one, as the biggest market buy a magazine once a
Yes, three or four times a
month year. It would be a bad idea to do a yearly
Yes, Every day magazine, and so making a monthly magazine
appeals to the largest trend that is possible.

4. This question helps me to fins out just exactly how
3.In An Article Of A Magazine, How Many popular pictures are in magazines. The trend
Pictures Would You Like To Accompany suggest that everybody enjoys at least some form
The Article? of picture(s) on an article, and that the majority of
consumers would prefer 2 pictures to an article. I
None will take this into account, although it would seem
1 Picture relatively boring to only have 2 pictures on every
2 Pictures page. I will counter this by appealing to most of
3 Pictures the target audience, showing 2, 3, 4, or 5+
4 Pictures pictures on each article via variation.
5 + Pictures

5. 4. In A Local Magazine, What Kind Of Article Asking this question to my target audience
enables me to know how to attract their
Would Attract Your Attention The Most?
attention when writing articles. The results
suggest that people do not read
information that worries them, but do read
Shocking articles that are
Entertaining
shocking, entertaining, funny, interesting, a
Funny
nd informing. Due to this, I will be trying to
Interesting
very my style of writing articles to that it
Informing
covers all 5 of the categories that people
Worrying
seem to like, paying special attention to
entertaining information and interesting
information.

6. 5. As a 16-24 year old, what do you look for Although this question may seem open
when it comes to your perfect magazine? ended, I wanted to see how the target
audience would respond to see if I could
obtain any useful information when it
RESPONSES:
comes to producing articles for people like
-well written content and enticing exclusive them to read. Although I may of received
features some ridiculous responses, I feel this
-a mixture of pictures and texts and question has also given me some useful
introducing new artists information.
-sloths For example, looking at these responses
-interesting cover stories tells me a good magazine does not have too
-stuff that has meaning to me/ stuff that I'm much text, has good pictures, has exclusive
interested in features, has to be relevant, covers a range
of topics, includes information on relevant
-covering a wide range of topics, but still
bands/artists/festivals/gigs, and introduces
focusing on what the magazine is based on new artists.
-includes bands/artists I like includes info on
festivals/gigs
-Interesting, not too much text
-Genre and bands

7. 6. What Catches Your Eye First On a Magazine
Front Cover? This question has given me some
serious direction when it comes to the
front cover of the magazine.
The picture
Everybody that I asked replied that
The title
The cover stories
they are attracted by the picture on
The Bar Code
the front cover the most, and
Advertisements
therefore I will have to think about a
Teasers good picture that can go on my front
Other cover.

8. 7. What qualities make an article interesting
to read? I thought that asking this
-how well written it is type of question would
-new n upcoming artists r gr8 give me more insight into
-interesting and key information about the the perfect article, and it
has given me lots of
article, and not too much writing. pictures - relevant information that
with it to keep it interesting will help me with my
-quality of the writer article writing techniques.
-Not making it longer than needed
-Ones that have meaning to you
-Buzzwords
-range of pictures to accompany it
-If it’s new and opinionated.

9. 8. When does a magazine article become
boring in your eyes?
-if it drags on without sounding entertaining
-when it’s too long and doesn't have pictures
-too much writing
-lack of engagement
This question has shown me that in order to
-when it’s too long write a successful article, I will need to
-When there is too much text and not enough keep my texts short and my pictures eye-
pictures catching. I will also have to be relevant to
-When it’s too long the music genre I have chosen and not
-if I’m not interested in that subjects/person or divert some something completely
if it’s not written very well, perhaps if its -too unrelated.
long
-If it were in my eyes it would be f@*!$#g
painful! When the magazine isnt related to the
genre it is advertising such as metal going off
topic to pop.

10. 9. What music genre do you orientate towards
the most? This question was to see which of
-rock, metal the people that took my
-indie/ progressive r n b questionnaire would have actually
-rock been in my target audience. Since I
will branch out from
-hard rock - metal alternative/indie in my magazine, I
-Pop will be able to incorporate a wider
-Alternative amount of genres into the magazine
-rock itself. Rock seems to be the most
-Metal popular, and metal (which I will be
-1 Skipped question. unable to introduce)

11. Finally, this question was to see what grabs the
10. Do You Prefer an Article That Writes attention of the reader the most. Results
suggest that in order to appeal to my target
Formally Or Informally?
audience, I will have to be informal. This was
something I had already decided to do so that I
could relate to the young target audience (used
to informality).
Informally
Formally
Other