This document contains questions that Hayleigh Chamberlain developed for a questionnaire about readers' interests in indie music magazines. The questions aim to gather information on demographics (age, gender), music preferences (favorite bands, genres disliked), purchasing habits (magazines bought, amounts spent), and desires for magazine content (appealing covers, articles, styles). The questionnaire is intended to help design an indie magazine that will appeal to its target readership.

1. Questionnaire Questions
Hayleigh Chamberlain

2. What is your gender?
I decided to ask this question for my questionnaire because
magazines have charted which gender buys what magazine more. I
thought this could be a good question as this could link to this.

3. How old are you?
I decided on asking this question because I wanted to get a rough idea of
who will read my indie music magazine and what I can include in it that will
appeal to my target audience. Asking them their age will make it easier for
me to include stuff that revolves around their certain age range.

4. Who is your favourite indie band or
singer?
I asked this question so I could get an idea of what indie bands and singers I could
include in my indie music magazine that would appeal to them and others. Also,
asking this would give me a direct answer rather than indirect.

5. Do you regularly buy music
magazines?
I wanted to ask this on my questionnaire because I get a range of who
actually buys indie magazines, this is helpful to me as I can get a result of
who and who doesn’t read them to help my final magazine cover, contents
and double page spread.

6. What is the highest amount you
would pay for a magazine?
I asked this question so I could get a rough idea if readers would pay a small
amount or £3+ for a magazine. This question will help me with my music
magazine’s selling price at what readers would pay best for the magazine.

7. What best colour do you think is
associated with ‘indie’?
I asked on my questionnaire a range of colours and tick boxes so I could get
a final idea of my colour scheme for my indie music magazine. I picked the
colours I think are most suited to the genre and I wanted those who filled
them out to pick their favourites. This is also helpful for my contents page
and double page spread.

8. How often do you buy your music
magazines?
I wanted to ask this question so I could get a vague idea of what times people get
their magazines, this also helps me figure out the types of indie magazine they
read just from the time they get them.

9. What three words do you associate
with ‘indie’?
I included this question on my questionnaire so I could get ideas of the
types of words or phrases/expressions that people think relate to the
indie genre in my magazine, this then appealing more to readers of my
magazine.

10. What do you like to see on a double
page spread?
I gave a tick box choice on this question to see what people thought
would be the best idea to see on the double page spread. Answers
ranging from Band Reviews to Band interviews that are on many
magazine double page spreads.

11. Which is your favourite magazine
from the choice below?
I wanted to ask this question so I could get an idea of which magazine mine
could be compared to. Answers ranging from NME and Q for people to pick if
my magazine was going to include certain features from the magazine that was
most popular.

12. How many indie bands/festivals
have you seen live in the past?
I wanted to see how many gigs or festivals people had seen in the past so I could
know how much they could relate to my indie music magazine, with the specific
type of words and bands that are included.

13. What do you usually like in a music
magazine?
I put this question on my questionnaire to get a rough idea of what people
want/expect on their favourite magazines, helping me with my magazine on
what people want to see on the front cover and both the contents page and
double page spread.

14. What appeals to you most on the
front cover of a music magazine?
This question on my questionnaire is to help me find out what most attracts
readers to the font cover of an indie music magazine, whether it’s the direct
address of the band/singer or the colour of the magazine when readers first
look at it.

15. What appeals to you most about the
main central image on the front
cover?
I put this question on my questionnaire because I wanted to know what
people were attracted to most about the main image of the band/singer on
the front cover. This is so I know how to structure my model for my main
central image for my magazine front cover.

16. What indie bands/singers do you
dislike?
I wanted to ask this question on my questionnaire so I know what bands
people dislike and to not include them within my magazine. This is helpful as
it will be more appealing to those readers who will be happy to see only
bands/singers they relate to and like.

17. What images would you associate
with ‘indie’?
This question asked about images that are associated with the indie genre is
helpful as images given I could take inspiration from, for example ‘guitar’ which
is simple and indie for my indie magazine .