Monday, 8 November 2010

Music Magazine Survey Results

I produced this survey to get an understanding of what presentational features would best suit the target audience when creating my media product. I used 'SurveyMonkey' to create my survey; this enabled me to design suitable questions and then collect the information needed by sharing the survey on the social networking site 'Facebook'. This was a good way in which to collect information as my target audience are  the majority age group that would be using this site and that filled in this survey.
Here are the results of the survey:
From question 1, I can gain that if the typography in my masthead is in capital letters, it is best suited that the typeface is in sans serif and if the typography is in lowercase, then the typeface should be in serif.  From question 2, the majority of people surveyed said that on the front cover of this music magazine, the art should be posed and that on the double page spread the art should be spontaneous.
The most popular design for a double page spread layout asked in question 3, was for images to be on one page of the spread, and the copy to be on the other.
On the front page of my music magazine, from my results in question 4, a female solo artist should be featured, as the survey shows over 50% thought that this would be best to be positioned on the cover.
Question 5 was fairly even in results, but the majority concluded that the overall style of the magazine should be spaced out and modern, with a clean cut and smart finish.
Question 6 was a text box question, so a table was unable to be made using the results, I asked which colours could be suggested for a music magazine, in order to establish a set of house colours. The suggestions given included, blue, green, pink, yellow, black, red, purple, white and silver. The most popular colours chosen were red, black, and blue. From research i have found red and black are often used as house colours on music magazines, so are therefore successful. But to establish an individual brand identity, perhaps blue could be included within the house colours.
I will take all of these results into consideration when planning and creating my magazine.

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