The author conducted research through a questionnaire, focus groups, and audience profiles to gather feedback from their target audience on a music magazine they were planning. The feedback helped the author understand what would interest and appeal to the target audience, which was mostly young females interested in pop music, in terms of content, design, and style. This feedback informed the planning and production stages by ensuring the magazine included the desired content and was designed in a way that would attract and satisfy the target readership. Overall, the author found the audience feedback very helpful for creating a magazine that would appeal to all people in the target demographic.

1. Overview
My audience feedbackhelpedme inmanywaysduringthe planningandproductionstagesof mymusic
magazine. Thisisbecause Iwasable to create and produce contentthat mytarget
audience wouldwanttosee/read.Ichose arange of methodstogetmy audience
feedbackinthe bestwayspossible,asIfeltI neededlotsof feedbacktocreate the
mostrelevant,conventional magazine.
Firstly,Imade a questionnairetogetmyfirstlot of feedbackonthe target
audience of mymagazine.Iaskedthemof theirage and gender,whattheirhobbiesandinterestswere,
and mainlyjustwhatwouldintrigue themintobuyinga magazine/whattheywouldlike tosee inone.
The feedbackthatI got back fromthiswas reallygoodas I wasable to obtainmyknowledge anduse
whattheyhad saidto planthe lookof my magazine (colour,fontstyle,double page spreadtype) tosuit
my targetaudience’sneeds.
I alsochose to do a focusgroup interviewtoachieve andfindoutevenmore detail aboutwhatmy
target audience reallyare lookingforinapop musicmagazine.IlistenedtotheirideasasI knew thatif I
includedthe contentthat theyspoke about,thenif mymagazine wastoevergo on sale,itwouldbe
successful. Iaskedtwogirlswhoare my age the questions.Thisisbecause theyare partof my target
audience due tothe popmusictarget audience beingfemaleleaning.Iaskedthemtolookthrougha
popmusic magazine andtell me whattheyliked/dislikedaswell asmanyotherquestions,forme toget
a greateranalysis. IfoundthistaskreallyhelpfulformyplanningandproductionasI now had a greater
understandingof whatwas neededinamusicmagazine foritto be appealing.
Lastly,I createdan audience profile inwhichIchose tosummarize mostof the elementsthatIhad
foundout,but I scaledthe detail downtothe minimal.Ialsochose touse imagesinorderfor it to
appeal tothe targetaudience if theywere toeverlookatit. This helpedme inthe planningand
productionstagesbecause,withoutit,Iwouldn’thave beenabletoeasilylookatthe detailstomake
sure that my plansformy productionwouldbe satisfying formytargetaudience.
Overall,Ifoundthe audience feedbackthatIreceivedfrommytargetaudience very
helpful.Thisisbecause Ifeelthatwithoutit,Iwouldn’thave beenabletocreate a
magazine toa good standardthat wouldappeal toeverysingle personinmytargetaudience.Iwould
have onlyhad myonlyvisionsandopinionstofocuson,ratherthan the restof mytarget audience.The
feedbackreallyhelpedme togetto gripswithwhatI neededtoachieve inthe planningandproduction
elements of mymusicmagazine forittobe successful.