Questionnaire results

Questionnaire overview of results

I conducted a questionnaire that I gave to 25 people. I mainly gave the questionnaires to my target audience of the magazine that I want to create, so this is younger people as they tend to like the genre of music that my magazine will be, more (Indie). However I also gave my questionnaire to older people to see there views on different genres and how magazines are laid out and what they think should be added to music magazines to make them better. I conducted a questionnaire so that I could see what the public liked so I can make a magazine that people will want to buy and read.Overall, found out what I should and should not do for my own indie music magazine.I found that I should:• Have an appealing artist on the front cover to draw people in and get peoples attention.• Have bold writing/ colours to make the magazine stand out.•Low price.•Publish fortnightly.•Add in crossover to other genres, and not just the one that the magazine is mainly aimed at. •Add images and writing onto the double page spread equally, along with interviews and information on other artists too.

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What is your gender?

I asked the gender of the person as this would help me to see what each gender prefers in music. I asked more females because this tends to be the target audience for indie music even though it has a wide target audience overall.

Question 2

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What is your age?

What is your age?

The most common age group that answered my questionnaire is 15-18 year olds, however I also gave my questionnaire to older people to get more of a variety of answers so that my audience can be bigger and span more of variety of people.

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What music genres do you prefer? Why?

Reasons: They preferred the way there favourite genre of music sounds and the different instruments that are use to make the overall sound, also they like the artists that are involved in this specific genres and they like the concerts that the artists in there preferred genre do. I asked this question to see what type of music people usually listen to in there spare time and why they like this music/ what it involves that they like. Indie appears to be quite popular preferred genre as they like the concerts that the artists do and the different aspects that link into that genre.

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Which genre would you like to see a new music mag-azine aimed at?

Which genre would you like to see a new music magazine aimed at?

A lot of people in my questionnaire said that they would like a new music magazine aimed at the Indie genre, this was because there isn’t many of this genre around in the shops already as there is a lot of rock and pop but not many that include indie. This shows that indie is a genre that people want to see more of (in magazines for example).

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This question on my questionnaire helps me to see what artists people like listening to helping me to see what indie artists they have mentioned, to see what to include inside my magazine. The people I asked all said a variety of different artists from different genres showing everyone has different favourite artists and likes different types of genres in the music industry, no matter than gender or age.

Question 6- What artists can you name from different decades?

• Results:60’s: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis

Presley, Pink Floyd.70’s: David Bowie, Bob Marley and The Wailers, The clash, Stevie wonder.80’s: Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston.90’s: 2pac, Nirvana, Snoop Dogg, Tom Petty, Nas, Oasis, Blur, Busta

Rhymes.00’s: Jay Z, Kanye West, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake,

Lil Wayne.These results tell me that the people that I asked this question too do

know quite a lot a bout different decades of music and not only about the decade we are in showing they might want to find out more about these artists so I could include some artists from different decades into my music magazine to make the audiences knowledge of music better.

Question 7

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Would you buy an indie magazine? Why/ why not?

Would you buy an indie magazine?

Reasons- Yes: There isn’t enough existing indie magazines in the shops, they like this genre so would like to find out more about it and they would like to see what artists are actually involved in this genre.No: They do not like this genre, so would prefer to buy other music magazines that are aimed at other genres and they don’t buy music magazines.This question shows that a lot of the people I asked actually would buy a indie music magazine as there is a gap in the music magazine market for one which is actually wanted by the public. This question shows that some people are simply just not into this genre but this is a small percent of the amount of people I asked.

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What features would you expect to be on a music magazine?

This question tells me that the artist on the front cover has to be appealing to the target audience to make people want to buy it because the artist on the front cover draws you into it if you like that person and genre of music they are in. It also tells me that bold writing and attractive colours are also important as they help draw you in too so you can see what it says and what will be inside making you want to read it even more.

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Which of these front covers do you prefer in terms of layout and its features? Why?

Which of these front cov-ers do you prefer in terms of layout and its features? Why?

Reasons- 1: Has a layout which is easy to look at and has things written on it which makes you want to buy it, tells you something that will be included in the magazine and because of the amount of artists it mentions it suggests there is lots inside the magazine. 2: Has a current, popular artist on the front, which straight away draws you in to look at that specific magazine, the colour and font are also attractive. 3: Bright colours used which attracts audience, looks like it only for one type of genre whereas other magazines have some crossover, to much information on front cover.

Question 10-What would you include or like to see included on a double page spread of a music magazine?

• Answers:• Images- big and small depending on what that bit is about.• Articles on the main cover artist and different information

about what they do and who they are.• Quotes/interviews from the front cover artist and other artists

that link in with these artists.The answers to this question tells me that the double page

spread mainly needs to be about the cover artist but also including other artists maybe from other genres that crossover with my specific genre. It also tells me that there needs to be a balance of images and writing to make it successful.

Question 11

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How much would you be willing to pay for a music magazine?

How much would you be willing to pay for a music magazine?

This tells me that most of the people I asked would pay between £3-£4 or £1-£2. This shows that people are not really willing to pay lots for a music magazine even if it does have a lot of information it. So people want music magazines to be priced quite lower so that they would be more inclined to buy them. This tells me I should price my music magazine quite low so it would appeal to more people.

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How often do you think music magazines should be published?

How often do you think music magazines should be published?

The results to this question tell me that most people prefer music magazines to be published fortnightly, suggesting that not everyone wants to buy magazines every week, maybe giving them chance to read the last edition first. This gives me an idea of how often my music magazine should be published.