Questionnaire

Here, I have conducted a bar chart looking at what the responses from my target audience, about what type of topics they would like to read about in a music magazine. They could tick more than one. So overall, as we can see more people wanted to see celebrities’ personal lives more in a music magazine, next to Health and Beauty. This reflects my magazine being for a female target audience, which they are more likely want read about topics that are going to be influential and beneficial for them, rather than for instance wanting to see what concert/gigs are going to be coming out. So we can gather from this data that the female population are not particularly interested in concerts, but in products and gossip that they can use in everyday life.

This next graph I have conducted a bar chart looking at what people favourite types of music are. They could tick more than one box. So from looking at this data Pop came out with a higher score than R&B. This could be due to the fact that they may have ticked Pop along with the other options. R&B came out second.  Furthermore, my selection of people that I had, had to complete the questionnaires, was obviously a very weak sample if they picked Pop, even though my music genre is R&B.

In this graph, I had conducted a bar chart looking at what my target audience find more eye-catching on music magazine front cover. The main image, came out with the highest votes, next to the cover mount and thirdly to the Header. In addition this shows that my target audience are very visual and are attracted to something big and dominant, which will grab their attention. The fact that no one picked little images or stated anything else, indicates also that my target audience are not boring ad want something that will appeal to them.

Taking a look at the other questions, which were asking them to give their emotions and feelings, there were similar but yet a mixture of answers. From my questionnaire, no one attends gigs or concerts, which relates back to the graph of topics to see in a music magazine which also got zero. Again this relates back to females answering the questionnaire. Everyone had said they were a big fan of music, picking ‘VIBE’ and ‘Top of the Pops’, music magazine, which once again reflects on the choice of music that they listen to.

Over three quarters of the people who filled in the questionnaires, agreed to pay between £1.20-£2.50 for a music magazine, which is a sensible amount of money to pay, also that is how much you are expected to pay for a music magazine today.

Finally the last question was asking to give a brief description of why they listen to music? Majority of the people had said that they listen to music, for leisure, relaxation and they generally like the beat or words to the songs. Another person had said that music helps them to reflect on life and most R&B songs help them do that, with the morals and teachings that they teach on teenage life, and it also portrays teenagers and what they can be committing or victims of, in a society of change, discrimination and prejudice.