× Questionnaire and Feedback

I created and carried out a short questionnaire. In the questionnaire I asked questions about my final music magazine cover. I gave people a print out of my magazine cover along with the questionnaire. I handed out 10 copies of my questionnaire to the same age group, which was 15-16 year olds.

These are the five questions I asked in my questionnaire:

1. Just by looking ay this magazine cover, do you think you would want to read it? If no, then why not?
2. What audience do you think this magazine is aimed at?
3. How do you think this magazine cover could be improved?
4. What type of music do you this magazine is about by looking at the front cover?
5. How much would you pay for this magazine?

Below you can see I have created some graphs to show my questionnaire results. I couldn't make graphs for all the questions. This was because some of them weren't multiple choice and the person doing the questionnaire had to right an opinion down. For example, I asked what audience they thought the magazine was aimed at. Most people said that they thought it was aimed at young people who are interested in music and dancing. I also asked what improvements could be made.

5 people out of the 10 said that there should be more images used of the front cover, and 3 people out of the 10 said there should be more writing. Some people also commented on the cutting around my central image, and also 1 person said that it might help to make the central image as the whole back ground. From looking at these results, I could make some improvements to my front cover to make it better. I also asked what price they would be willing to pay for my magazine. I put the price as £1.70 on my front cover and most people agreed with that. But others said around £1.00 to £2.00.


From this graph you can see, 8 people said that looking at my front cover they would want to read my magazine. And only 2 people out of 10 said that looking at it, they would not want to read it. The 2 people that said they wouldn't want to read it both said that their reason was because they were not interested in that type of music.



This graph shows that most people said that they thought my magazine was about dance just by looking at the front cover. Only a few out of 10 thought it was about another type of music.

In order to get some more audience feedback about my final magazine front cover, I videoed an interview. I asked roughly the same questions in this interview as I did in my questionnaire.

To ensure that I got the best audience feedback that I could get, I also uploaded my magazine front cover and contents page onto facebook so that I could see what comments were said about them. Below is the screen shots of the comments of the Electric front cover.

These comments read:

Lauren Emm at 6:35pm May 7
Lisa i think this is reall y good. I love the bright colours that go with the dance music theme ... The whole magazine looks like it's glowing which woul d really capture my attention if i saw it in a shop! Well done! :-) xxx

Natasha Taylor at 6:47pm May 7
Fantastic Job Lisa!It makes me want to open it up and look inside! I would definateley buy it if it was in the shops! :D x

Leanne Devoil at 6:54pm May 7
Helloo :) I really like the star with 'exclusive' written on it. Looks very professional :) and i think the title looks really good and the composition works really well xx

Sophie McDermott at 7:22pm May 7
I would definately look at it if it was in the shops. I like the colour of the writing as it really catches your eye and makes you want to read it. X

Lucy Mitchell at 7:59pm May 7
like it.It looks very proffessional and eye catching. xx

Alex Painter at 8:45pm May 7
i like the colours the green and yellow go very well. and the way the title is bended round is good too. only thing is the yellow writing against laurens top. kind of hard to see. other than that... good job (Y)

Jonathan Bradley at 9:17pm May 7
Looks good, the green works well with yellow (especially against a black background). The 'Mas Kara' font looks great, i'd consider doing the whole of the main sub title in this font, just with the first bit in a smaller font size. My only criticism would be you've got text bending down, text bending up, text sloping left, text sloping right, text ... horizontal ... all in different colours / fonts. I'd go for fewer different fonts / colours and have a bit more consistency. Oh, and your text at the bottom (the list of contents) looks different on the left to the right!? Also, the text on the left is capitalised and it's not on the right!? ... hope this helps!! Jx

As I said, I also uploaded my contents page onto Facebook to see what people had to say about this. Below, you can find a screenshot.

The comments read:

Lauren Emm at 6:39pm May 7
I love your background :-) it looks like the lights across room of a club. Its good that u've continued the theme and kept the front cover and contents page consistant. The only thing i would say is about the white frame around the pic of you that isnt blended as well as it could be, altho i know you did try to do it! Other than that, i love it :-) well done! Xxx

Kerry Nunn at 9:14pm May 7
Looks good but some of the writing is a little difficult to read...maybe tone down some of the colour? xx

Jonathan Bradley at 9:23pm May 7
Crikey ... that's bright ;-) ... have you thought about having the page black, with the 'stripey' graphic in a strip / panel down the right-hand side, so you can read the text. Would consider a smaller font size again (so it doesn't look too much like a kid's comic) and don't be afraid to have a bit of blank space ... will look more contemporary ... and cutting edge! Again, bit of consistency in the fonts would work better ... I like the "The UK's No1 clubbing guide ..." font especially ... would work well as the 'Contents' heading also!? Oh, and I think it should read "... the first issue of our ...". Hope that doesn't sound too critical ... Jx