This document contains the results of a survey about music magazine preferences. The survey received responses from 14 people ranging in age. The most common purchase frequency for magazines was once or twice per month. Rock and pop were the most popular genres. The survey also assessed preferred magazine cover designs, sell lines, and additional content. Key findings indicate that respondents preferred magazine covers featuring a single person, opportunities to win concert tickets or meet artists, and sell lines with elements of surprise or mystery. The conclusions provide guidance for designing an appealing rock music magazine cover targeted at teenage readers.

1. OCR Media Studies – AS Level
Unit G321: Advanced
Music Magazine –
Survey Monkey
survey results
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Name: Asuka Young
Candidate Number: 4149
Center Name: St. Andrew’s Catholic School
Center Number: 64135

2. Music Magazine Survey result 1
Asuka Young
These are the results gained from my survey- I gained answers from 14 people, and there
were: 10 females & 4 males. Which are a little unbalanced, but their ages are varied too, 4
people being the age of 10 - 18, one person between 27 - 35, another between 38 - 44, and
two people aged 45 or more.
Q3- frequency of buying magazines
other frequency
once/twice per month
few times per year
never
38%
8%
15%
38%
Q4- Genre of magazines
20%
7%
27%
47%
Rock/Metal
Pop
Blues
Others
The numbers here indicate how many votes went for these sell lines- the most
popular one was ‘AC/DC alternating directly this winter!’. This indicates that a
dramatic event which includes famous bands,with a pun that relates to the band
in some form can be appealing to audiences who likes Rock genre:
Q5- Sell lines
(10 ) Exclusive! The newborn rises- supporting
the new upcoming band this summer.
(7) Open the grave- Miles Davis’ blues
memories re-lived again!
(9 ) The 10 Best new acts on the tide
(9 ) Our father, Our hero- the all time Elvis
never fading
(10 ) AC/DC alternating directly this winter!
(6 ) T-rex goes out loud- secret band member
profiles!
(6 ) Do you know... what sound tastes like!?
(5 ) Black Sabbath- Ozzie answers your
questions now!
(8 ) The album that changed everything- splitting
(5 ) Good Charlotte- the madden boys are back!

3. *The following two questions were answered by only 8 people due to the timing in which the questions
were added.
Q7) Which House styles best suits the Rock
Music genre?
Black, White, Blue Black, White, Grey
Black, White, Yellow Black, White, Red
Black, White, Purple
25%
Kerrang! Magazine NME Magazine
Q Magazine Classic Rock Magazine
This pie chart shows the most ticked magazine offers. The most popular ones were chances
to win tickets- therefore in my magazine, I will include something about seeing music artists
live. As you can see on the other offers, chances to meet a star in person was also appealing
to audiences.(-The numbers below indicate the numbers of common votes):
14%
41%
18%
5%
23%
chances to win prizes
Free posters
exclusive imageries
win concert tickets
exclusive interviews
75%
Q8) Which Magazine cover layout is
generally more appealing to you?
13%
13%
13% 63%
Q6- Suggestions
Two audiences left a comment with suggestions:
-Guess Who’s back!
-(Anything that includes good ideas).
The above suggestions has informed me that an element of surprise or a mystery can
be effective as a sell line.
Other offers that audiences
wanted to be on the magazine
cover:

4. Conclusion
Overall from this survey, the results had no set patterns and was scattered, but there were some
common results which gave me a lot of ideas about what I would want to include in my magazine
cover. For example, I may include information about Rock music that is associated with Pop /
other genres of music (Eg: Punk rock). However, as the most popular main image was a figure
image of one person, this may become impossible. I will definitely mention concert information,
such as a chance to meet a Rock star, cheap or limited tour tickets..etc. Also the layout should
include the colour theme of red / bright colours combined with black and white, and aim to be
imaginative about the main image, and have a clear/unique house style too (Like Kerrang, where
the font styles are quite bold / cracked and having a large, medium shot model. I will exaggerate
the sell lines a little in order for it to be appealing to my original target audience (teens especially).
The reasons for the possible exaggeration / word puns are described above.
I have realised also, that the audiences are looking for something that differentiates from the other
same types of Rock magazines. For example, the information about ‘free’ items, or about a
chance to meet someone is not very mentioned in magazines so often, I may be able to step into
this, to offer something that the other magazines won’t.