Survey results

 

 

It is important to understand your target audience and their wants and needs from a magazine, creating a survey and asking people to answer was a good method of gaining that information. It was evident for answer one the majority of my audience use twitter as a preferred type of social media minus a few who choose instagram. Question 2, how often do you listen to music? Understandably nearly everyone answered always. Question 3 based about if you keep up to date with your favourite artists showed more people choosing always however some saying sometimes. How often do you want your magazine to be distributed was my next question and this was going to help me decide when it should be distributed - conclusion is monthly from the feedback? Question 5 about how you get your music showed all people get their music online normally by downloading it off the computer. Do you go to festivals answer was evident my audience enjoy going to concerts and festivals giving me heads up to including free tickets on my magazine. Question 7 about print and online showed people like them both the same amount and if not print more than online which was shocking for me. Question 8 about pricing demonstrated I had made the right decision when choosing to price my magazine from £2.00-2.99 as that was the most chosen answer. Everyone answered yes to the magazine being interactive as they want a relationship with the magazine, similar to question 10 about articles where answers where varied to answers about gossip, backstage stuff, new music and personal lives of artists.

Drafting - Final

Audience feedback

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/52RR53Q

Here is my survey in which I have asked people to fill out giving me audience feedback, I hope that this gives me effective feedback as the people answering will be anonymous and therefore wont feel bias to answering in a certain way which will ensure correct results, from the results I will gain I will be able to understand different peoples opinions on the music magazine industry helping to suggest how well my magazine would of been in comparison to other magazines.

Production diary - 03/02/14

Today is the day before our deadline for our magazines, its not the final thing but everything needs to be done so today is all about ensuring all blog posts are completed and my magazine is final and everything which should be completed on it is done.

Starting the day with doing my 'cover lines' suggesting reasoning for why I have produced the cover lines which i have - doing this as a powerpoint presentation hoping to keep it intesting and engaging for my audience. Next carrying on with my magazine making sure every detail is done and finishing off my front cover which I was not 100% happy with before.

Drafting #2

   Here is my next process to my final piece of work being completed, I have changed the front cover by adding more writing on such as '16 page gig blow out' I felt as if the left side didn’t have enough writing on and looked boring so adding this has also helped to engage readers to my magazine as my target audience are involved in gigs and it’s a good way of promoting the magazine. I also made some changes too the artists names on the right underlining the main stars as I felt it would draw more attention to them making them show more importance. Following on to the contents page I added a subscribe and twitter box - feeling like this would show my connection to my audience as I have established their wants from a magazine. My double page spread I have highlighted important bits of text which I feel which catch the eye of my reader whilst adding the date of my magazine release and page number at the bottom helping the reader get through the magazine easier.

Chosen Images

Production diary/27th Jan