Results of a questionnaire taken out for media studies

1. RESULTS OF
QUESTIONNAIRE

2. How old are you?
51+
41 to
50
31 to
40
21 to
30
11 to
20
0 to 10
0
5
10
15
20

3. What gender are you?
Femal
e
Series1
Male
0
5
10
15
20

4. Do you have any hobbies or
interests?
Y
e
s
N
o
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Comments:
-gymnastics, art and reading -Listening to music, watching
tv, dancing, singing -Photography, reading, holidays and
music. -Ice skating 
-Reading, acting, drawing etc. -My interests are football and
footballers
–Dancing –Knitting –Scouting -Art and textiles –
Photography
-stalking DISTRICT3 -Football

5. How often do you read
magazines?
Comments:
-I buy some
occasionally
I guess
-OK
magazine
Once a year +
Once every few
months
Once a month
Once a fortnight
Once a week
Every day
Never
0
2
4
6

6. If yes, how often are these music
magazines?
Never
Not too often
About 50% of the
time
Most of the time
All of the time
0
5
10
15

7. IF YOU WERE TO READ A
MUSIC MAGAZINE, WHAT
MAGAZINE WOULD YOU READ
AND WHY?

-Clash

-Anything that isn’t too long and boring, but something that is quite fun and interesting

-I don’t know because I have no idea what music magazines are available.

-I wouldn’t

-Ummmm I don’t know any music magazines…… Top of the pops??? Because its for
my age group

-I would choose one with interesting band information and great quality pictures

-I don’t really know any names, but I’d choose to read it if there was a good band on
the front.

-NME or VIBE as this has the artists I am most interested in

-Entertainment weekly because it talks about pop music

-Q magazine because it has a range of styles in it

-NME, it’s the only music magazine I know but if I found one that has bands I like in
it, then I would buy that one.

-One about metal, with a variety of bands

-urmm depends whos in it.

8. What is your favourite music
genre?
Comments:
-Indian music
-Country
Country/punk
-Metal
Danc
e
Classi
cal
Jazz
Opera
Indie
R&B
Rock
Pop
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14

9. How much are you willing to pay for a
music
magazine?
£5.01+
£4.01£5
£3.01£4
£2.01£3
£1.01£2
£0-£1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

10. W H A T D O Y O U U S UA L L Y L O O K
FOR IN A MUSIC MAGAZINE?

-Eye catching colour scheme, POSSIBLY a competition, reviews of the latest music in my favourite
genres, movie reviews aswell, recommended music (track of the day type thing), music events, reviews

-Some interesting things to read free goodies? Pretty pictures?

-Nothing, because I never read them.

-Nothing

-Them quizzes that you ask a question in a bubble and it’s usually yes or no and your answer will send you
down a line to another question you know the one im on about also I like embarrassing stories lol

-Famous singers

-Reliable information, interesting questions and answers, aswell as high standard photos

-Interviews or photos of my favourite bands

-Interesting interviews but not too much writing

-It to cover up to date information, and be focused on one type of music genre

-Something relevant to music and relevant to the genre.

-A good range of different styles of music, the top 40 and information about different artists.

-Pretty colours, and featuring good groups!

-Bands I like, interviews, free stuff eg posters cd etc.

-Good pictures and questions

-A range of artists

-Info on the artist

-Posters and pictures

-Stuff to do with music

11. W H A T S H O U L D B E AVO I D E D
WHEN MAKING A MUSIC
MAGAZINE?

-Too bright colours that hurt the eyes e.g. neon colours, bright block colours etc…- There shouldn’t be too much
information on the page, there should be a good ratio of pictures to words, this makes it less intimidating – fonts and
backgrounds should be good contrasting colours e.g. black on white not grey on black.

-Gossips about celebrities maybe?

-Mixing of different genres, e.g. Heavy Metal and Classical.

-Nothing.

-Advertisements cause theyre so boring.

-Unpopular bands

-Boring front cover (makes bad impression) vague details on music

-Gimp bands on the front. Loads of ads. Stupid clashing colours, but not really dull and boring.

- Asking artists the same types of questions that they always get asked as another magazine would have already
written about this.

-It to be repetitive

-Too many fonts, disproportioned images and pixelated images

-Having just one style of music that features in the whole magazine

-Bands that wear scary masks!

-Writing it about really famous artists that all the other magazines have ( being the same) eg bieber or one direction!

-Expensive and thick magazine

-No cheesy artists! 

-Too much writing

-Talking about the singers life rather than talking about music

-Too much writing, bad colour scheme, too many fonts