The document contains responses from surveys about features for a hip-hop magazine. For the front cover, 90% of respondents preferred images and 10% preferred a masthead. For success, respondents said the front cover needs a clear image, bold font, good color use, and the right audience. For the contents page, 56% wanted page numbers and 25% wanted images. Respondents said the contents page should include a lot of information. For a double page spread, images and interviews were the top codes. The color scheme should be consistent except for the double page spread. For an interview, a hip-hop artist was preferred. Black, red and yellow were the most likely magazine colors.

2. what features would you most like to see on the front
cover of hip-hop magazine?
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images
Strapline
Masthead
Puff Promotion
I found out that the majority of the people would prefer to see images
on the front cover (90%) and 10% of the majority would prefer to see a
masthead as a feature.

3. What does the front cover of the
magazine have to include for it to be
successful?
Clear image
Clear/bold font
Good use of
colour
Aimed at right
target audience
The majority said that in order for the front cover of a magazine to
be successful you need to include all the features such as a clear
image, clear/bold font, good colour use and it needs to be aimed at
the right target audience however 43% of the majority said it would
be better if there was a clear image.

4. What kind of main image/thumbnails
have to be on the front cover of a hip-hop
magazine?
RnB Artists
Popular Artists
Random People
Hip-hop Artists
Rock Artists
I found out that for a hip-hop magazine the front cover should have
images/thumbnails of hip-hop artists as that was 60% of the majority and
others said you could also include images of RnB artists(10%) and popular
artists (30%).

5. What are the main features you would expect to see
on a contents page?
Page numbers
Images
Editorial
Barcode
Cover lines
I found out that the main features the majority would expect to see on a
contents page is page numbers (56%) as the reader would want to know
what the magazine contains and what page number the stories are on. 25%
said the main feature would be images.

6. Should the contents page include information about all
the pages in the magazine?
Yes
No
The majority of the people said no, the contents page should not include
information about the other pages however I disagree and will be going against
the feedback as I am ‘repeating’ (Steve Neale) what most magazines include n
their contents page as this will allow my magazine to be professional and
successful.

7. What should the contents page include:
A lot of images
A lot of
information
Cover Lines
Main Image
50% of the majority said that the contents page should mainly include a
lot of information this may be due to all the information about the other
pages that needs to be included.

8. What are the main codes and conventions
of a double page spread?
Interview
Images
Questions and
Answers
Puff Promotion
The main and codes and conventions that were picked for a double page
spread were images (37%) and interviews (26%) so I will include an interview
into my double page and also add images of the hip hop artists ‘Star appeal’
(Richard Dyer).

9. Should the colour scheme that is used on the
front cover and contents be used on the double
page spread?
Yes
No
90% of the majority said that the colour scheme that is used on the front
cover should also be used on the contents page and double page spread
should be the same throughout. I am going to follow this and keep the
colour scheme the same throughout my front cover and contents page as
they are information to do with the magazine and the double page spread
will have a different colour scheme as the colours will need to suit the
story.

10. What kind of person would you interview for a hip-hop
magazine?
Actor
RnB Artist
DJ
Hip hop artist
I asked the majority what kind of person they would interview for a hip-hop
magazine and they said a hip-hop artist as they will talk about the right
information to do with hip-hop music.

11. What colours would you most likely see on a
hip-hop magazine?
Red
Yellow
Green
Black
Blue
The majority of the population said that they would most likely see
the colour black on a hip-hop magazine (32%). Yellow and red were
both at 21% so this connotes that most hip-hop magazines may use
those two colours so I will use black and red for my magazine so it
can look professional.