Summary of results media task 8
- 5. How often do people buy music magazines Never Weekly Fortnightly Monthly 4 out of 8 of those that chose ‘Never’ was because music magazines don’t interest them 2 of them said they are too expensive The other 2 said they don’t have enough time
- 6. How much money would you be willing to spend on a music magazine? £1-£2 £2.50-£3.50 £4
- 7. The options were: interviews, gossip columns, music charts, quizzes, tour updates and I asked people to circle 3 All 10 people chose interviews as one of their options 5 out of 10 people chose gossip columns 4 out of 10 chose music charts Only 2 people chose quizzes 7 people chose tour updates This showed me that in my magazine, I should definitely include interviews and tour updates. The next popular choice was close between music charts and gossip columns. However, this proved that not many people are interested in quizzes, therefore I will not be including quizzes in my music magazine
- 8. For this question, I asked people to circle 2-3 Colours Pink Purple Blue Green Black White Yellow These results showed me that the 4 most popular colours for the colour scheme of my magazine are: Red, Black, and Purple and White had the same results
- 9. Artists/Bands Female artists Male artists Female bands Male bands These results showed that many people would be interested in seeing female artists in a music magazine, therefore I will be using a ‘female artist’ for my front cover.
- 10. Magazine name Mix Pop Mix Echo Verge Exposed Hits Simply POP Icon ‘Pop Mix’ and ‘Icon’ came out as the most popular names for my magazine, with ‘Exposed’ being the next popular. Therefore, this has cut down my choices to three to choose from.
- 11. This research has helped me with my magazine a lot, it has made me realise what to include that will please people the most – interviews, tour updates and either music charts or gossip columns. As most of the people that answered my questionnaire were girls, this means that most of this will only please girls, therefore females will be my main target audience aged from 13-20 The 3 most popular colours came out as black, red and purple. However in my opinion these three colours wouldn’t fit well together and would come across as a more rock genre rather than pop, therefore I may choose my own colour scheme to fit in with my pop genre. Most people also chose £1-£2 for how much they would pay for a music magazine. Therefore, I will make sure my magazine is within this price range to appeal to a wider audience.