The document summarizes the results of a questionnaire given to 10 college students about their music preferences and what they look for in a music magazine. Key findings include that most participants said they would likely buy Spin or Rock Sound magazines and would prefer a magazine that is released monthly and costs between £2.00-2.99. Most also said the most important feature is the content about rock music and that the colors red and blue on the cover would attract them most to buy the magazine.

1. Questionnaire
results

2. What genre of music do you like most?
Rock
R&B
POP
JAZZ
CLASSICAL
INDIE

3. questionnaire results
• I handed my questionnaire out to 10 people around college, I
made sure there was a mixture of male and female participant
because the this is who my magazine is targeted at.
• From collecting the results from the questionnaire, I now have
a clearer understanding of what my target audience want in a
magazine, and this will help me when I come to designing it.

4. What music magazine would you be most
likely to buy?
KERRANG
ROCK SOUND
SPIN
Q
ROLLING STONES
NONE
Most of my participants said they
would most likely buy spin and rock
sound, these are magazines I hope
to base mine on. This gives me a
clear idea to what readers are
looking for.

5. How often do you buy a music magazine?
40% of participants said they are most likely to buy a music
magazine monthly, I will therefore release mine on a
monthly basis, the least popular was daily, showing readers
a gap before buying another magazine.
daily
weekly
fortnightly
monthly
never

6. What would you be willing to pay for a
music magazine?
Magazine prices
From my results I have a
clear estimate to what
readers are willing to
pay. I ill
£2.00-2.99
£3.00-3.99
£1.00-1.99
50p-£1.00

7. How often would you like a music
magazine to be released?
The majority of my
participants said
weekly, this gives me an
idea to how often I should
release my magazine.
weekly
daily
monthly
fortnightly

8. When buying a music magazine with a free
gift, what item would make you most likely to
buy it and why?
• When collecting my results from this qualitative question, I found there was
a range of ideas of what free items I could include In my magazine, this most
common answer that 4 out of the 10 people put was sweets or chocolate.
Other included posters, festival discounts, and CDs
• This gives me a few ideas to what I could include in my magazine.

9. What do you think is the most important
feature of a rock magazine?
Most of my participants said
that the most important
feature was the rock
magazine. This will therefore
be my main aspect to consider
Masthead
main image
layout
typography
colour scheme

10. What colours, used on a front cover, would
attract you most to buy a rock magazine?
• When asking people what colours they believe would attract
them most to a rock magazine I found that red and blue was
mentioned by 50% of participants. This gives me an idea of
what colours appeal to my target audience most
• For my magazine I think I will use this information and use red
and blue as my house colours, not only because these were
the colours suggested by the participants but also because
they compliment each other.
6
4
2
0
red
blue
black
orange

11. What name do you like the best for a
new music magazine?
Most of my participants said
rampage was the best name
for a rock magazine however
this name is taken so I went
for the second most popular
option.
RAMPAGE
TURMOIL
MAYHEM
UPROAR
FRENZY
SLAM
MOSHPIT