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Audience Research Questionnaire and Graphs
Audience Research Questionnaire and Graphs
Question 1: what is your gender?
I asked this question to know the gender of the people and to see if there are any relationships with their gender and answers. For example, the males may agree upon something differ from the females. This is important for me to know because my target audience’s feelings and opinion are what attracts their attention to a college magazine.
Of the 20 people I asked 10 males and 10 females. I asked around randomly but also keeping the amounts of males and females equally proportions of both sexes so that my research was fair.
Question 2: How old are you?
I asked this question to know the ages of the people and to see if there are any correlations with their ages and their answers. For example, the males may agree upon something differ from the females. This is important for me to know because my target audience’s feelings and opinion are what attracts their attention to a college magazine.
Question 4: Name 5 things you would like in the magazine?
I asked this question to know the people opinions on magazines and to see what the people would like in the magazine. Of the 20 people I asked, my results showed a mixed range of different interests. Results showed that all male and females choose music and almost all males and females choose music. However, all ten boys choosen sports news and a few requested a 'men's' page, whereas the females choose celebrity gossip and teacher gossips.
Question 5: How much would you like the magazines to cost?
I asked this closed question to know the people opinions on magazine’s price and to see if there are any connection with their gender and their answers. For example, the younger age group may agree upon something differ from the older age group, or the males may agree upon something differ to the females. This is important for me to know because my target audience’s feelings and opinion are what attracts their attention to a college magazine.
Question 6: How often would you like the magazine to be put on sale?
I asked this closed question to know the people opinions on how often would they like their magazine. Results show the audience monthly, I agree, simply because a college magazine takes work to make. Also the magazines would cost, therefore, students may not buy them daily due to the daily payments.
Question 10: what colours would you like to be in the magazine?
I asked this question to know the people opinions with the colour themes. Some people may like a colour and some may dislike a colour which could lose attraction to the audience. This is important for me to know because my target audience’s opinions are what attracts their attention to a college magazine. Results show a majority of the people who likes the colour blue, six males and five females.
Question 12: what size would you like the magazine?
I asked this closed question to know the people opinions with the magazine size that attracts the people most. This is important to me to know because some may agree upon an A5 magazine to save space or some others may agree upon something differ like an A4 magazine for easy reading. Results show that my audience would prefer an A4 magazine, six males and nine females.
By looking at my questionnaire results, I've learnt that, certain people like a certain thing more than other, for example, the males likes the sports news more than the females, and the females like the celebrity gossip more than the males. Also, almost everyone like the colour blue and this shows me that the colour blue attracts my audience most. Of all the 20 people I have asked, all have choose to have music in the magazine. This informs me that music is the biggest attraction to the audience. I also asked a closed question if my audience would prefer the magazine to be either A4 size or A5, and my results shows, of the 20 people I asked, 15 people ticked A4 and 5 foe A5 size. I’ve asked at random why they have chosen so, and for those who choose A4 said A4 size are more easy to read from and they have larger images and text, also they usually have more to read which could can be more efficient in money sense.. And for those who chose A5 said A5 size magazine are smaller, so they’re less space consuming and easier to carry around.
Magazine Questionnaire
Magazine Questionnaire
Hello, I am Jon Ngo and I’m studying audience research as part of my media course. My course involves making a college magazine and I need you opinions on the magazine. I hope you can help me with this and it is to be for the college magazine.
Please may you complete the magazine.
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If yes, please give an example …………………………………………………………….
4. Name 5 things you would like in the magazine? Examples: Weather
News
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Horoscopes
ii)………………………………………………………….……………….......... Music
Celebrity Gossip
iii)………………………………………………………….……………….......... Advice
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| | 20p | | 50p | | £1 | | £1.20
6. How often would you like the magazine to be put on sale?
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| | Often | | Frequently | | Not Much | | Never
8. Which of the following do you read the most?
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| | Yes | | No
10. What colours would you like to be in the magazine?
| | Blue | | Purple | | Pink | | Other
If other, if note ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
11. If you have anything else you would like to add please do so below.
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Thank you for answering my questionnaire!
College Magazine Textual Analysis
College Magazine Textual Analysis
The denotation of this image shows a symmetrical mid shot of a college student with several books in his hand, this connotes a sense of organisation, order and positivity in a teenage lifestyle at college. This magazine contains all Mise-en-scene except setting. There is no setting in this image, but just a grey tinted background.
The individual’s costume is a fancy wear, for example, a dark leather jacket, jeans and flashy necklace. His prop are class textbooks held in his hand, a representation of education. The individual’s non-verbal communications is positive, such as, his body language is cool and relaxed. His facial expression is happy and smiling. And lastly, the lightings are strong on both side of the individual, also a soft lighting is in front of the individual. This lighting is high key lighting meaning the lightings are set to be bright and free from shadows. This image is composed symmetrical vertically. This connotes a sense of organisation, order and control. Finally, the depth of field is wide meaning focus is strong on everything.
A Masthead is the name of the magazine displayed in a specific typeface. It is usually done with a specially designed typeface in order to make it recognisable and unique. In this magazine, the masthead is called ‘College Lifestyle’ written large in yellow with a grey background. Also the text size is very large and place on the top of the page. The masthead is fairly large and coloured yellow which is very effective because the colours are creating contrast.
A Coverlines are piece of text that attracts an audience to the contexts of the magazine. They are often distributed around the main image. Coverlines usually have two parts, such as a ‘kicker’ in bold fonts with an explanatory line. This magazine has many coverlines. One example is ‘Why we love blackberry’ followed with ‘And why it’s all the rage on campus’. This coverline is smaller than the masthead, it is coloured white and circulated around the main image. This coverline made a mistake of over lapping the main image and parts of the explanatory text have similar colours with the image, rendering the word invisible and unreadable.
Another example is ‘Make Money on Campus’ followed by ‘Entrepreneurial tips you need to know’. This coverline is also small, but coloured yellow. The colour changes are to help separate the different coverlines. However, the same mistakes are also made with this coverline, such as text overlapping the main image and similar colours between the text and the main image.
A Dateline should always be on a magazine front cover. The month and year of publication is often with the price. However, this magazine’s dateline is in top right hand corner, ‘The opening issue summer 2009’. With a dateline on the magazine, the audience can identify if the magazine is valid or outdated.
A Barcode are used by retailers so that the sale of the magazine can be registered quickly during its purchase. This magazine’s barcode is at the very bottom left side. If this magazine did not have a barcode, this magazine will be difficult to register, could be seen as fake and have a low sale, because the costumer will find registering the magazine without a barcode ridiculously long and pointless.
A Selling line in a short, sharp description of the title’s main marketing point or perhaps a setting out its editorial philosophy. For instances, this magazine’s selling ling is ‘Your exclusive guide to everything hip hop & happening’. Although t is phrase is above the masthead, the text font is smaller, and too long to be a masthead which means it is a selling line. However, there is a mistake, parts of the text is cover by the main image which makes it difficult to read.
The main image is the most important part of the magazine cover. The consumer magazine editors worry more about the cover than any other pages which is why the main image is most important to attract the audience. This magazine’s main image is the college student, with his text books in his hand. The photographer has taken a mid shot of the college student, with two strong lightings ob both side of the individual. The depth of field is wide meaning focus is strong on everything, and the image shot is composed symmetrically vertically. However both photographer and editors have worked hard in making this magazine.
The main coverline is the largest coverline on the front cover. Its purpose is to display and promote the main featured articles in the magazine. For example is ‘Dancehall’s Bright Future’ followed by ‘Jeffrey ‘assassin’ Campbell.’ This coverline is also coloured in yellow and in bold large texts, however the text is not in large fonts as the masthead, which makes it the main coverline. However, this coverline has many mistakes made, such as over lapping the main image and parts of the explanatory text have similar colours with the image, rendering the word invisible and unreadable.
A shape on the cover that contains information to attract the audience is called a puff. This magazine’s puff is a pink ink splat containing ‘Splat! Let’s Go Paintballing!’ this puff is advertising paintball games and this attracts the audience because the pink plat shape has contrast with the dark coloured background.
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