The document summarizes the results of a survey about preferences for a rock music magazine. The majority of respondents were ages 16-20 and female. Most listened to pop music. When asked about rock music, the top associated words were guitar, bands, and electric. The preferred magazine colors were red, black, and purple in dark shades. Respondents wanted the magazine monthly at £3, including interviews, gig guides, images, and reviews. Popular bands mentioned included Foo Fighters and Nirvana. The survey results will help guide decisions in producing the magazine.

1. Phoebe Rowlands

2. Age and gender
I can see from my results that the majority of the age group that this will appeal to
is ages between 16-20. This could be a biased result because of the fact that
these questionnaires were handed out in school and so most of the people are
the same age. I found that 15 people that filled out the questionnaire were
female and so this will help me because I know that the majority of the
audience is female I will be able to produce my magazine style to fit the
audience.
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5
10
15
Age
under 16
16-20
20+

3. What type of music do you usually
listen to?
Most people listen to a mixture or another type of music that
is not listed. However, from the music that is listed the
majority listen to pop. This can help me as I could
incorporate some pop culture into my magazine to appeal to
the majority of the audience.
Rock
Indie
Pop
Other
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7
3

4. What three words do you associate
with the word rock?
This will help me to decide what themes to use when creating
my rock magazine.
I could also incorporate
Some of these words
When I am writing my
Headlines and
Cover lines.
Words used that are associated with rock
Stone Guitar
Banger Intimidating
Bands Music
Electric Energy
Gig Entertaining
Stars Piano
Loud Rioting
Powerful Bass
Hard core Drums
Dark Hard
Screaming /shouting Violent
Unique Busy
Fast Frantic

5. What colours do you associate with
the rock genre?
The 3 most popular colours that were chosen are red, black
and purple. This will be the colour scheme that I will be using
when I am producing my rock magazine as this will appeal to
the audience as I am following the research answers given.
Red
Black
Blue
Purple
Silver
Grey
White
10
18
4
5
4
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6. Would you prefer for these colours
to be bright or dark shade?
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5
10
15
20
Bright Dark
Number of people
I will be using dark shades of the colours for my colour scheme this is
because the majority of the audience that took the questionnaire opted for
the magazine colour scheme to be a dark shade and so I will be following the
results given to appeal to the audience so they will buy the magazine.

7. What is the ideal price for a rock
magazine?
The price that I will be using for my rock magazine will be an average
between the majority price given in these results and the prices that I have
researched from my professional magazines research. Therefore, my
magazine will be priced at £3.00.
Price for the magazine
less than £1
£1-2
£2-3
£3-4
£4-5
£5+
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6
6
4
2
1

8. How often should a rock magazine
be published?
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5
10
15
20
Weekly Monthly Annually
Number of people
This will help me to decide how often I should publish my music magazine, for
example there is no point in publishing it weekly if the majority of the audience said
that it should published monthly because then no one would buy the magazine every
week. The majority of the audience did opt for the magazine to be published monthly
and so i will be taking on this feedback when producing my music magazine.

9. What would you expect to be included in a rock magazine?
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6
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1
3
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1
3
1
Interviews
Gig guides
Images
up coming artists
Recent bands/songs
News
Freebies
Reviews
Feature articles
These results help me decide what I should be including in my magazine. The ones
that received the most votes will be the most important things that I should be
including in my magazine as they will be the ones that the audience will most likely
be looking out for.

10. Who is your favourite band/singer?
Bands/singers mentioned
Rihanna Swans
Beyoncé The 1975
Drake The Rolling Stones
Rainbow Bullet for Valentines
Squeeze Arctic Monkeys
The Sisters of Mercy Spice Girls
Nick Cave Selena Gomez
Nirvana Jamie T
Fidlar David Bowie
These results will help me get an idea of what type of music the audience
usually listens to and I will be able to incorporate this into my magazine,
for example some rock bands are listed and so I could include these bands
into the magazine cover lines.

11. What bands/singers have you heard of from the rock genre?
Bands/singers from the rock genre named by the audience
Foo Fighters Iron Maiden
Kings of Leon Nickelback
Linkin Park The Cult
Black Sabbath Swans
Bowie The Sisters of Mercy
Queen Rainbow
AC/DC Guns n’ Roses
T.Rex Lynryd Skynrd
The Rolling Stones
Nirvana
Zeppelin
This will help me when producing my magazine as I will be able o include some of these
bands in my cover lines and because they are known and familiar to the audience it
encourages them to buy the magazine.

12. How often do you buy a magazine?
0 3
2
15
Weekly
Monthly
Yearly
Rarely
Although the results show that most people rarely buy a magazine more people
buy a magazine monthly than weekly or yearly and so this coincides with the idea
that more people think that a magazine should be published monthly and this is
why I will be publishing my rock magazine monthly.

13. What do you like about the magazines
that you buy?
A few of the things that have been mentioned about what people like on a
magazine are:
 The masthead
 Interviews
 Reviews
 Gig guides
 The gossip
 Freebies
 Where the bands they liked are up to now
 Retro stuff
 Images
This will help in the production of my magazine as I will be able to include most
of these for example, the masthead will already be included and so will the
images. Therefore appealing to the audience so they will buy the magazine.

14. What do you dislike about the
magazines that you buy?
A few of the things that have been mentioned about what people
dislike on a magazine are:
 Adverts
 Irrelevant stories
 Too much text
 High prices
 Images
 Too many cover lines
This will help in the production of my magazine as I will be able to
avoid some of these therefore appealing to the audience so they
will buy the magazine. For example I will be pricing my magazine
so that it is not too expensive and I will not include irrelevant
stories or adverts, however, some of these are unavoidable for
example I will need to include images in my magazine.

15. Do you prefer more text than
images on a magazine?
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5
10
15
20
More images More text
Number of people
The majority of the audience prefer more images than text and so when
producing my magazine I will make sure to include this feedback by adding
more images and not as much text that may be irrelevant to the magazine.

16. Do posters in a magazine appeal to
you?
Yes No
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The majority of the audience said that posters do
appeal to them and so when producing my rock
magazine I will be including this feedback, for
example on my front cover I will be adding
buzzwords to advertise that there are posters inside
the magazine.

17. Would you prefer to see an interview with
a whole band or just one member?
Whole Band One Member Either
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It was a close split between interviewing a whole band and
one member, however, more people chose only to interview
one member and so in my double page spread I will only be
containing an interview from one member of the band.

18. Conclusions
In conclusion, I will be using the research from my
questionnaire and the research I have conducted on
professional magazines to help me make my decisions
on my rock magazine for example the price will be £3.00.