i have analysed my survey results so that i can improve my magazine so that more people will want to read it

1. Survey Results
100%
0%
Would you like to here from unsigned bands?
Yes
No
This show that every body would like to
hear from unsigned bands so that
means I will have an unsigned band in
my magazine.

2. 100%
0%
Would you like freebies?
Yes
No
This show that every body would like
to receive free gifts in the magazine
so that means I will have freebies in
my magazine.

3. 7%
20%
23%
33%
17%
What colours would you associate with indie magazines
Purple
Black
Grey
Pastel Colours
Other
This shows that people recognise
an indie magazine with pastel
colours over the colour purple
most people chose pastel colours
of they chose the colour grey
which would represent a black
and white picture so I will use
both colours in my magazine
because they were the most
popular.

4. 50%50%
For a magazine front cover do you prefer
Coloured front cover picture
Black and white front cover picture
This shows that the font cover
doesn’t matter if it is coloured or not
because an indie magazine is
recognise and preferred for both. I
will choose to do my magazine cover
in pastel colours because I think
that’s what is most related to an
indie magazine according to this
survey

5. 23%
64%
13%
How many pages would you like
40
60
100
Because the number of 60 pages I
will make my magazine 60 pages
because that is what the majority
of people wanted for my magazine

6. 39%
49%
6%
6%
What is a reasonable price
£2.00
£3.00
£4.00
More
Almost half of the people who
took this survey this that my
magazine should be £3.00 and
over more just over a third
would like this magazine to be
£2.00 so therefore I will make my
magazine £2.70 because 10%
more people choses £3.00 over
£2.00

7. 23%
30%
3%
44%
What do you think an indie magazine needs to make it
indie?
Cirtain Pictures
The colours
the layout
the content
Because almost half of the
people think that the content is
what makes an indie magazine
indie I will focus on that the
most then because 30% chose
the colours I will make sure I
have indie colours in my
magazine such as pastel colours
grey black and other colours
that may look indie. Because
23% thought it was the pictures
I will make sure my pictures will
reflect the indie look.

8. Name one indie artist you like the most
• Alt-J Chet Faulekr
• Artic Monkeys Cant pick
• Of Monsters And Men Kodaline
• None Not sure
• Halsey The XX
• The Smiths I don’t know
• Circa Waves Artic monkeys
• Kodaline Kodaline
• FIDLAR Not Sure
• Fidlar Artic Monkeys
• Kodaline Imagine Dragons
• Not sure Cant pick
• The XX Haim
• I cant pick N/A
• The Cure The Smiths
One of the thing that people did not
like about other magazine is that
the artist were not indie enough as
you can see more that two a lot of
people know these bands so I will
find other bands that are really
indie meaning that less people will
know about them.

9. 20%
60%
20%
0%
What age do you associate indie artists?
Teens
Twentys
Thirtys
Older
Over half of the people who too this
survey thought most indie artists
would be in there twenties so
therefore I will make sure my band
looks young and will be in there
twenties for the front cover. Nobody
associated the age over 40 with indie
artist so I will make sure that my
bands and artists will be under the
age forty.

10. 15.56%
17.78%
15.56% 15.56%
6.67%
28.87%
ROLLING STONES UNDER THE RADAR QMAG NME MOJO NONE
Have you ever bought one of these magazines
Have you ever baught one of these magazines
This shows that moat of the
people who will read my
magazine will not have read
other magazines or they would
have read at least one of the
other. The most popular
magazine is Under The Radar.

11. 20%
33%22%
25%
What attracts you to these magazines
Pictures
Content
Colours
Freebies
Most people are attracted to
the pictures so I will make
sure all of my pictures are
appetizing and good so that
people will want to buy my
magazine.

12. 10%
90%
How often should it be published?
Weekly
Monthly
Only three people
thought that my
magazine should be
published weekly but 27
people thought that my
magazine should be
published monthly so this
means that I will in fact
publish my magazine
monthly because almost
all of the people who too
my survey would like it to
be published every
month.

13. 13%
3%
84%
Who would you prefer on the cover
A man
A woman
Either
This shows that who ever I
put on my front cover it
wouldn’t bother anyone but
they would prefer it to be a
man if anything.

14. 10%
66.67%
20%
3.33%
POURED OUT PENDANT CHILL OTHER
What is a good title?
The majority of people think
that the name Pendant is the
best name for my magazine.
This means that I will call my
magazine Pendant because it is
the most popular.

15. 21%
38%
21%
17%
3%
What content would you like?
Posters
Interviews
Articles
Games
other
The most popular content
subject is interviews so this
means I will include a lot of
interviews in my magazine will
lots of different bands and solo
artists. The next most popular
thing is posters an articles so I
will make sure I include some of
them in my magazine so that I
can make everyone who reads
my magazine happy. And I will
also include some games.

16. 11%
15%
14%
16%
21%
23%
Give 3 word related to indie
Slow
Deep
Great
Beautiful
Cool
Guitars
The most popular three words
associated with indie are;
Guitars, Cool, and Beautiful.
This means that I will use
these words a lot whilst I and
writing my articles and other
things in my magazine to keep
it indie

17. 90%
6.67% 3.33%
16 - 20 21 - 24 25 - 30+
How Old Are You?
How Old Are You?
The majority of people who
read indie magazines are at
the age of 16-30 which
means that my magazine will
be aimed at the age of 16-30
which also means that my
magazine will most likely be
informal because that’s what
most teenagers like to read
and it is also the type of
language other magazines
use.

18. 30%
70%
MALE FEMALE
Gender
Gender
This shows that the
majority of people who will
read my magazine will be
female and the male will
be least likely to read my
magazine

19. 27%
60%
13%
How often do you read indie magazines
Rarely
Sometimes
A lot
This information shows
that over half of the
people who took my
survey read indie
magazines and that they
will most likely read my
magazine

20. If you read current magazines what do you dislike about them?
• They should have more interviews Not sure
• Not sure I don't
• Not sure The content
• The pictures could be better I don’t
• Not sure n/a
• There all similar n/a
• The layout is hard to read sometimes Sometimes there is too much text
• The content Don’t know
• N/A When its just about looks the magazine has no purpose
• I don’t Unneeded information
• Not sure The bands are not indie enough
• Page number The artist is not always indie
• Not sure The content isn’t that good
• The contents page The type of pictures they put in
• Covers The layout
This will tell me what not to
include in my magazine and what I
can improve in my magazine so
that people will like it more.