Questionnaire

What did you find out?
How will you create your magazine?
How will you'r media product represent different social groups?
What type of media institution will distribute your product?
Identify the audience for your media product?
How will you attract your audience?

From my survey results I have found out that quite a few people do buy magazines but read them only a couple times a month. Also people said that they would like to have interviews and posters in the magazine as well as having a mixture of images and text, this will help with the design and creation of my own magazine as I will now try to include posters and have a balance of images and text. Also the results show people would like to have posters, interviews and gig information, meaning that I will have to research and collect relevant gig information to put into my magazine. People who took my questionnaire were mainly 16 years old, this means my target audience of my magazine is going to be teenagers. The most common choice of colour to use was mainly purple, though I thought it wouldn't fit in for my magazine design with rock music, so decided to go for red instead. With Rock music being the most popular, bands such as Muse, Green Day and The All- American Rejects will be placed in my magazine for being rock bands. Also a few pop artists such as Katty Perry and Nicki Minaj, who also appeared in my questionnaire results, this shows the popular bands that are currently big with target age group.
To make my magazine I will design it in photoshop to put together all the information and images to make sure they are well designed and look professional, this will make sure that people are attracted to the magazine with relevant images and colours as well as a bold title to attract their attention. Also I will have to go out and interview people asking them questions and other information for the magazine. Also I will need to take pictures that are appropriate for the magazine's genre of rock, images of bands,or instruments, and other rock related things shall be included.
My media product will represent different social groups by using a popular colours and images to attract the buyers to the magazine by having music that links to more than one social group. This could also be done by looking at the results and seeing as their are more young women who answered the questionnaire I could make my magazine more feminine with images of woman and men and gossip about them. However the magazine will also have a more manly side to it so that men are able to also have a link to the magazine making the magazine be for both gender.
To distribute my magazine I would use Bauer Media because they already distribute music magazines like kerrang and Q. This makes it a reliable dealer so that it will become popular and be able to produce profit from the magazine as they have already distributed magazines they will have market influence and knowledge on where to distribute my magazine and anything things that could improve my own magazine.
The audience of my media product will be young teenagers who are interested in alternative rock and pop music. The audience will also be targeted for people who are interested in interviews, posters and gig information or in general music. The magazine will be for both males and females.
To attract my audience I will have large images and text on the title cover so that it is eye catching to make the audience see the magazine and hopefully buy it. i would use famous names such as Muse, Green Day on a masthead to attract fans of the bands to the magazine as well as large fonts with whats inside the magazine.