The results of my questionnaire helped me decide on my layout of my magazine and content.
I gave the questionnaire to 25 girls and 25 boys from the ages of 12 - 30 years, and the age group i have identified that is more likely to read my magazine would be 17 - 21 years, this helps me as i now know who to mainly focus on but without losing the ineterest of the other age groups. I'm going to do this by using artists that appeal to a wide age group and gender.
I believe that there are music magazines that appeal to my target group such as NME,Q, Rolling Stones, Kerrang. However these magazines come across rather daunting and overwhelm the reader with music knowledge, i personally didnt read music magazines until i started my reasearch as i thought you had to be really involved in music and the technology side, i found this off putting.
This isn't the case for some music magazines and i want mine to appeal to whoever just is interested in music and likes listening to it.
I have decided that the music magazine i am creating doesn't have to appeal my original brief of the genre indie-rock as i want the style of the magazine to be this but not necessarily be based around this type of music. I have wrote about Lady Gaga, Cheryl Cole and other artists that don't fall under the catergory of indie-rock. This decision will hopefully benefit me as my magazine doesn't focus on a certain group or genre, but is based around an edgy style.
Time is fast approaching the deadline, so it is important you get to work on the magazine itself now, but please don't overlook the important job of talking us through your ideas here on the blog regarding the themes of the front cover you intend to create, as well as how you want the double page spread to appeal to your audience. How do you intend the photographs to link to the text, and to the headline? Run through some of your creative ideas here, so we can see how it takes shape over the next week or so.
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