Music Magazine –

Survey Monkey survey results

Name: Asuka Young Candidate Number: 4149 Center Name: St. Andrew’s Catholic School Center Number: 64135

OCR Media Studies – AS Level

Unit G321: Advanced Portfolio

Music Magazine Survey result 1

These are the results gained from my survey- I gained answers from 14 people, and there were: 10 females & 4 males. Which are a little unbalanced, but their ages are varied too, 4 people being the age of 10 - 18, one person between 27 - 35, another between 38 - 44, and two people aged 45 or more.

38%

38%

15%8%

other frequencyonce/twice per monthfew times per year never

Q3- frequency of buying magazines

20%

7%

27%

47%

Rock/MetalPopBluesOthers

Q4- Genre of magazines

The numbers here indicate how many votes went for these sell lines- the most popular one was ‘AC/DC alternating directly this winter!’. This indicates that a dramatic event which includes famous bands,with a pun that relates to the band in some form can be appealing to audiences who likes Rock genre:

Q5- Sell lines

(10 ) Exclusive! The newborn rises- supporting the new upcoming band this summer. (7) Open the grave- Miles Davis’ blues memories re-lived again! (9 ) The 10 Best new acts on the tide (9 ) Our father, Our hero- the all time Elvis never fading (10 ) AC/DC alternating directly this winter! (6 ) T-rex goes out loud- secret band member profiles! (6 ) Do you know... what sound tastes like!? (5 ) Black Sabbath- Ozzie answers your questions now! (8 ) The album that changed everything- splitting (5 ) Good Charlotte- the madden boys are back!

Asuka Young

This pie chart shows the most ticked magazine offers. The most popular ones were chances to win tickets- therefore in my magazine, I will include something about seeing music artists live. As you can see on the other offers, chances to meet a star in person was also appealing to audiences.(-The numbers below indicate the numbers of common votes):

14%

41%5%

23%

18%chances to win prizesFree postersexclusive imagerieswin concert ticketsexclusive interviews

Q7) Which House styles best suits the Rock Music genre?

*The following two questions were answered by only 8 people due to the timing in which the questions were added.

25%

75%

Black, White, Blue Black, White, GreyBlack, White, Yellow Black, White, RedBlack, White, Purple

Q8) Which Magazine cover layout is generally more appealing to you?

13%

13%

13% 63%

Kerrang! Magazine NME MagazineQ Magazine Classic Rock Magazine

Q6- Suggestions

Two audiences left a comment with suggestions:-Guess Who’s back!-(Anything that includes good ideas).

The above suggestions has informed me that an element of surprise or a mystery can be effective as a sell line.

Other offers that audiences wanted to be on the magazine cover:

Conclusion

Overall from this survey, the results had no set patterns and was scattered, but there were some common results which gave me a lot of ideas about what I would want to include in my magazine cover. For example, I may include information about Rock music that is associated with Pop / other genres of music (Eg: Punk rock). However, as the most popular main image was a figure image of one person, this may become impossible. I will definitely mention concert information, such as a chance to meet a Rock star, cheap or limited tour tickets..etc. Also the layout should include the colour theme of red / bright colours combined with black and white, and aim to be imaginative about the main image, and have a clear/unique house style too (Like Kerrang, where the font styles are quite bold / cracked and having a large, medium shot model. I will exaggerate the sell lines a little in order for it to be appealing to my original target audience (teens especially). The reasons for the possible exaggeration / word puns are described above.

I have realised also, that the audiences are looking for something that differentiates from the other same types of Rock magazines. For example, the information about ‘free’ items, or about a chance to meet someone is not very mentioned in magazines so often, I may be able to step into this, to offer something that the other magazines won’t.