Recommended conventions as a result of questionnaire

Recommended conventions as a result of questionnaire

In the results of my questionnaire I found out what my target audience want to see in a magazine. My magazine is going to cost between £1.50 and £2 as this was what the majority of people said they would pay for the magazine in my questionnaire with 42.11% of people choosing this option. If I charged more than this then I risk my target audience not being able to afford, or be willing to pay this much for my magazine.

I asked my audience which colour scheme they would prefer for the magazine and the options were black and red, red, white and blue, black and blue or blue and red. The colour scheme I will have for my magazine will be either red and black or red, black and blue because these were the top two choices in the questionnaire results.

I have decided that my magazine will be released monthly as this was the most chosen option and if it was released weekly or fortnightly this could be too often and my audience might not be able to afford to buy it this often and therefore I would lose money and customers. A lot of magazines of the same music genre are also released monthly.

In my questionnaire I found that the most popular magazines that are read in the rock genre are ‘The Rolling Stone’, ‘Classic Rock’,

Out of all the people who took my questionnaire there were more females than males. This suggests that slightly more females will be reading my magazine than males. However this means I still need my magazine to appeal to both male and female and therefore include things that relate to both genders.

I need to ensure my magazine is appealing and appropriate for a range of different ages as people as young as 15 and people 22 years plus could be reading my magazine. I will do this by providing articles that appeal to everyone or different age groups.

Hobbies and interests

In the questionnaire results it was clear that information of music was more important than celebrities in a magazine. Therefore I will include lots of information about different bands and band members in the rock genre and news about the music genre and only include some news about celebrities.

I found out what my target audience think is the most important feature in a music magazine. The most popular choice was the images on the front cover. This shows that it’s the images on the front cover that attract people most and means I will choose the best images for my front cover. The other popular choices were the cover lines, the colour scheme, the articles and the background image. This means that I will choose the colour scheme that got the majority vote in my questionnaire and I will choose cover lines and include articles that will appeal to my target audience and that they will have a strong interest in. The option that was least popular was the masthead, although this was an unpopular choice I will still need to choose a name for the magazine that sounds good and professional.

There are lots of bands in the rock genre that my target audience like that I could include in my magazine. Some of the bands that were given in my questionnaire are The Arctic Monkeys, The Wombats, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Vaccines, Blink 182, 30 Seconds To Mars and Guns N Roses. I know that my target audience like these bands and will want to read about them in the magazine so I will therefore choose some to have in my magazine.