Questionnaire Results

I posted a poll on my blog to find out more about peoples thoughts in regards to music and magazines. The poll was answered by only 31 people, which is a relatively small amount. Fortunately, I managed to get mostly people within the age group I was aiming to target (16-25) to complete the poll. There was also a fairly equal spread between the genders - 14 male, 17 female. For this reason the results will influence my decisions when planning and producing the magazine.

My poll revealed that the people mostly purchase magazines 'now and again'. This lead me to decide that the magazine should be released on a monthly basis, instead of a weekly basis. Also, the results helped me to determine a price that would best suit the type of magazine I was looking to create. I found that my price should fall somewhere between £2 and £3.

What was also very interesting was the results that were gathered from my question, 'what initially attracts you to a magazine?'. I found that almost all of the people that answered my poll voted images as the main aspect of a magazine that initially attracts them. This clearly showed me that having strong images in my magazine was going to be vital.

I also found that what the majority of people disliked in a magazine was adverts. This wasn't really going to be an issue for my 3 magazine pages as I was not planning to include any adverts. Roughly half of the people also voted that they dislike competitions in magazines, which may pose an issue for me, as I was aiming to include one somewhere on 1 of my 3 pages, as I have seen competitions advertised on other music magazines.

As well as gaining some useful information as to what people look for in a magazine, I also managed to get some feedback on what title and colour scheme people thought would be most appropriate for my magazine. Quake seemed to be the most popular magazine title, taking 48% of the votes, and the most favourable colour scheme, taking 41% of the voted, was red, black, blue.