Audience Research- Results and Conclusions

I asked 20 people questions to suit how I would plan my magazine, I will take these results to build ideas to produce my magazine.

Results and conclusions

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My Questionnaire

I have formed a questionnaire that will enable me to see what the public will like, and therefore buy, I will make my magazine according to their results.

This is the Questionnaire..
1.How old are you?
2.Are you male or female?
        Male?     Female?
3.What is your favorite music magazine?
4.What would you rate Indie genre out of 10?
5.What are your three favorite colours?
6.What is your favorite Indie singer or band?
7.What three words would you associate with Indie?
8.What would you like to see in the magazine?
9.Would you buy the magazine just to read one article?
10.What is the most you would pay for a magazine?
       £0.50-£1.00?   £1.00-£2.00?    £2.00-£3.00?    £3.00?
11.How often would you like the magazine to be issued?
       Weekly?    Monthly?    Yearly?
12.Do you enjoy listening to Indie or is there any other genre that you prefer?
13.How many pages would you like the magazine to have?
14.What is your favorite Indie song?
15.What mood do you associate with Indie music?

Analysis of professional double page spread

Double page spread professional analysis

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Analysis of a professional contents page

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Analysis of Professional magazine covers

Analysis of professional front covers

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Initial Ideas For My Magazine

In this lesson we reseached into our magazine choice I made decisions about my magazine that is very important to the making of the magazine.

Price: £2.30
Frequency Of Publiction: Monthly
Average Issue Size: 30 Pages
Regular Content: Interviews and pictures
Feature Articles: A band article

Researching the market place.

After reseaching on the internet the different types of magazine, I found various magazines that I could focus my magazines on.

Price: £4.50

Frequency of publication: 12 issues per year

Issue size (number of pages):60

Media Pack:http://bauermediaadvertising.com/uploads/Mojo-MediaPack-2011.pdf

Price: £1.75

Frequency of publication: Once a week, every Wednesday

Issue size (number of pages):40

Regular Content: Big-name interviews, gig guides, new band info and in-depth music news debate

Media Pack:http://www.nme.com/mediapack/pdf/nme_media_information_full.pdf

Price: £2.20

Frequency of publication:Weekly

Issue size (number of pages):50

Media Pack:http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/Global/mediapacks/Kerrang.pdf



Here is a link to the nme website that shows us the target audience, and what the magazine offers. 
http://www.ipcadvertising.com/ipc-brands/2009/feb/03/nme
The click on View media pack underneath the article.



Kerrang is a music magazine with over 404,000 people reading it. Its target audience is teenagers, who are interested in different genres of rock music. In the magazine it shows the reader different types of bands they love and then newer bands that have came into the music industry. The magazine gives you the latest gossip of the music world. I will look at the type of magazine to make my magazine similar to this one, as it is very sucessful.



http://magazines.bauermediaadvertising.com/magazines/detail/kerrang

Initial Ideas.

After researching into what type of music magazine I was going to design, Indie is the genre that stood out to me, as it was set aside to me from the other genres, as I have never been as interested in this genre as other magazines, this will help me look more into depth about the genre and learn as I am completing my task.  I will appeal my magazine to both genders and 16-24 years old with an interest of this type of music.

Preliminary Magazine Evaluation

For homework we got set the task to evaluate the work we have done for our front cover and contents page of the school magazine that we have completed.

Weatherwatch outlines an everyday magazine, with stories, competitions and everyday news. It is a magazine especially designed for the students of Weatherhead, basically like a newsletter but in more depth.

The front cover of the magazine is very much like 'New' and 'OK' but with a school twist. It follows codes and conventions in very many ways it has a big bold title that stands out from the rest of the magazine. There is one main image that dominates the page, if someone was to pick up the magazine this would be the first thing the eye would see. The taglines give a brief description of the stories in the magazines. There is a tagline in the bottom left hand corner. The person in the image creates eye contact with the audience, this is called direct address. The body language of the girl fits the genre as the girl is dressed in a school uniform. The issue and date are always situated at the top of the front cover above the main title, or by the barcode.

In some ways the front cover doesnt follow the codes and conventions because the postioning statement is above the main title. The front cover does not have any buzzwords, these are some of the things I will need to work on it to make my work better.

The contents page meets the codes and conventions as it has a screenshot of the main front cover. The font is continuous throughout both pages. The issue number and date is situated at the top of the page. It has a buzzword ''your exclusive magazine'' this makes the reader thing they are getting more for their money. Images have taglines to give a brief description of the story.

Contents Page

Using Quark was a hard task as I havent used it before, we had a lesson to experiment with the software, I got familar with using it rather quickly and I was then prepared to complete my task.  By drawing a sketch of the layout of the contents page it made it easier to follow and complete the work in the time given.

This is the final idea I made on Quark for my contents page.

Front Cover

In todays lesson we completed the Front Cover of our magazines on Photoshop. We completed this task in one lesson. As I have used Photoshop before I thought this task was straight forward and thats why I could complete it in the time available.

Production of school magazine front cover.

This was the process I went through to create my front cover and my contents page, using photoshop for my front cover and quark for my contents page.

This is the Front cover...

 I started off with the blank canvas and put a colour background on it, that matched my colour scheme.

 I then cut out the image of the girl using the magic wand tool, I also used the blur tool to blur the hair around.

 I then added the title with the font that I am going to use the whole way through, the title is going to be bigger than all the other writing as its one of the main aspects of the front cover apart from the main picture.

 I put the positioning statment above the title in the same writing to keep it all consistant.

 The price was put in the same writing at the top of the magazine, so the reader can clearly see it.

 The main story line-that reflects the main image, is in partly in capitals and is in the same writing and also in a the colour scheme I have chosen to use, Weatherhead colours.

I added in the issue date and the issue number to the bottom of the magazine, this sits around the barcode.

 Story lines are being added in, in the same colours and writing. This is consistant.

 The image that has been added in was one that I have took myself around the school, it reflects the story that it represents.

 Other storylines have been added.

 Relevent images have been added to show the storylines.  I took these pictures myself.

 Another story line was added across the top underneath the main title.. This stands out as its in grey and is in the same colour scheme, and the same writing.

 A small tag line to the 'Take a Trip with Weatherhead' was added to give a small dose of information to the readers without them actually reading the article.

 Capital letters and exclamation marks are used in the 'wanted' part, this draws the readers in and it stands out, using the same colour scheme and writing.

The bar code is added to the left handside bottom corner of the magazine. This follows the codes and conventions of a magazine front cover.

Photographs for school magazine

In todays lesson we took pictures for our front cover, we then uploaded them onto the computer and evaluated them, and seen if there was anymore images that we had to take to complete our work.  We then took more images-the ones that we didnt take properly and re added them onto the computer
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This is the main image for the front cover.. A medium close up.

This is one of the articles appearing in the magazine about 'Ice Radio'.

This is another one of the pictures that will appear in the magazine about 6th form life,

Rough Layout of the Contents Page

This is the A4 drawing I made to complete my Quark presentation. This saved time whilst doing my work on the computer as I had an initial plan to stick to.