Music Magazine Survey Analysis

We asked 10 people, 2 males and 7 females, to fill a survey on music magazines. From analysing the completed surveys we found out that the most expected price to pay for a magazine is £3.00. Also from our analysis we discovered that music magazines are generally bought from the newsagents or supermarket and that most people tend to buy them monthly and sometimes seasonally.The surveys showed that the main colours which are expected to be in a music magazine as they work best together are black,red and white, although some of the surveys showed that yellow and blue are also good colours to use. Most of the surveys showed that the thing which is most influential when it comes to buying a music magazine in the main cover story line however some of them also showed that the main front cover image is also influential when it comes to buying a music magazine.We also discovered that the most popular way to listen to music is on an Ipod, the second most popular ways to listen to music on the radio and the internet.Many of our completed surveys showed that posters and Cd's are the most expected thing to be included in a music magazine, but competitions are also good to be included within a magazine as well. The surveys also showed that the style of the magazine is just as important as what is in it, as it is the first thing that grabs the attention of the audience and gives the first impression of the magazine. If the overall style of the magazine isn't attractive and looks bad, it looks as though the contents of the whole magazine is going to look bad as well.

By analysing our completed surveys it helped us to decide on some of the features for our magazine.It helped us to decide that the cost of our magazine should be £3.00 as this was the most popular answer on the survey, it also helped us to decide that black,white,red and possibly yellow or blue are the colours to use on our magazine to make it attractive to the target audience. From looking at the surveys we have decided that we will make the overall style of the magazine attractive as they showed that this is important for a music magazine to make a good first impression.

 Erica Swaby and Shaun Casey