I have decided to do a random sample.

Non gender specific (both male and female)

Sample of 10 people

Due to the fact that it is such a small sample I cannot generalise my results for everyone, however I can get an insight into what the audience wants

Online based survey rather than paper based

Before asking my target audience questions regarding the creation of my music magazine I needed to establish how popular magazines are in the industry and therefore how often I should distribute my magazine, from my findings I think that it would be best to do my Music magazine monthly due to the fact that the majority of people asked said that they only read magazines sometimes.

On the other hand 20% of the people asked anonymously do often read magazines however due to the fact that this is the minority of my sample rather than the majority it would be too risky to distribute my magazine weekly.

I also wanted to find more about my target audiences music preferences so that I could see whether a pop magazine would be easily incorporated, as you can see from the results there is a variety of different genres, the three most listen to are rock, indie and pop, this positively affects my results as pop originated from rock therefore resulting in all genres being able to be incorporated within my magazine.

Although I could make a magazine with a variation of genres I think that I am going to stick to the stereotypical pop music magazines, with artists that attract the female gaze, as I think that this would be a better representation of ‘’Pop’’ music.

Here I have looked into who my target audience like most as a artist/band, I can then look into the styles of each and see whether they can fit into my pop magazine. For example in particular Ed Sheeran has a very laid back costume and is included within the Pop genre to an extent. So I can incorporate this into my photos for my magazine in order to make them look more professional and more engaging to the audience. Similarly one direction is a major band involved within the female gaze so I can therefore have a look into the styles of photographs in which they take and use on previous magazines and advertisements.

I then asked a question regarding my magazine, I wanted to know whether they prefer magazines to be very jam packed full of information or simplistic. 80% of the sample said that they would prefer the magazine very simplistic therefore I will need to use this in order to design my magazine and meet the audiences wants. I think that this is a vital question as it determines the house style of what certain people enjoy reading, in this case it is clear that the defiantly like the less exaggerated magazines such as Q.

I then decided to ask a question regarding the content of the magazine so that I could establish which parts of other magazines should be incorporated within my music magazine. The top two responses were interviews and artist profiles closely followed by top singles of the week. The least picked option was get the look articles as these are based around fashion magazines.

I think that for my double page spread I should do an interview regarding a new video or single that my artist is releasing so that there is a combination of interviews artist profiles and new singles.

The target audience decided that a band would be better for the main artist within my magazine, however 40% also thought that a solo artist should be included, in order to resolve this problem I have decided to use some solo artists within the contents element of my magazine as I think that this would therefore create a balance between the two, meeting everyone’s wants.

I then asked a question regarding the Mis En Scene of my artist, for the main image for my magazine the sample decided that it would be best if I had my artist dressed casually in jeans and a jump or t-shirt.

I am also going to incorporate the Smart causal Mis en scene as I think that this may possibly be used for my double page spread image of my magazine. This therefore allows me to show different costumes for my artist therefore giving me different scene scenarios.

I then asked a question regarding the different props that could be used within my magazine photos, and if I do decided to use props the most popular selection was headphones.

Due to the fact that my band is not going to have images taken of them performing I think that microphones are unlikely to be needed, however if I use my idea of a chilled out image for the contents page then I may use headphones in order to show how they are relaxing after shooting a video.

I then needed to establish a price for my magazine, establishing what the target audience would be willing to pay. The most that they would possibly pay is £3.00 therefore I need to ensure that my magazine is affordable for the target audience and not too pricey.

I then asked a question regarding the colour scheme of my magazine, and the most popular colours where the neon colours such as pink and yellow, another colour that was popular was white, therefore I may choose to use this as my background for my front cover, other colours that were also very popular were purple and blue therefore I may also be able to incorporate these within my magazine.