Customer Profile.

My music magazine is based upon the genre of pop, it will focus on chart music and will include lots of well known pop artists. My magazine would primarily target females between the ages of 10-16, but I would also like it to appeal to those up to the age of 20. My magazine needs to be bright and colourful to make it appeal to the younger teenagers, but also needs to have some sophisticated elements to make it appeal to those older teenagers too.

This is Molly, she is 16 and currently in sixth form. She is studying photography, media studies and drama. In her spare time she loves meeting up with friends, and going out with her family. She is constantly listening to music, and it is very rare to see her without headphones in her ears. She loves pop music and always keeps up to date with the charts. Music is a big inspiration in her life, her favourite artists are Olly Murs and Rihanna. She also likes all the popular boybands, her favourites being JLS and One Direction. She is very passionate about live gigs, and often attends all the local concerts. In a magazine, she
would like to find exclusive gossip, concert dates and free posters.  

Advantages and Disadvantages of questionnaire.

Advantages:

The advantages of a questionnaire are that they are fairly quick and easy to do; people can easily take them away and complete them so it doesn’t waste lots of time. Also, by doing a questionnaire it’s a way in which you can get a range of lots of different people’s opinions, rather than it all just coming from me personally, and other people may have some good answers that influence me. A questionnaire is a very efficient way of collecting information, the results are very easy to present, and using pie charts helps to display results very clearly. Furthermore, because everyone completed the questionnaire alone, there was no pressure on them so hopefully no bias results.

Disadvantages:

The disadvantages are that some people may have misunderstood some of the questions, they may have ticked the wrong number of boxes for example. Also, the questions can’t be complex; they have to be kept quite simple so everyone, ranging from all different ages, is able to complete the questionnaire with no difficulty. It is hard to tell if people have actually answered the questionnaire truthly, rather than being influenced by others around them. Moreover, some people may even loose the question or even possibly write down silly answers that are completely unrelated. Finally, some people’s answers may not be given as an option which would mean they just had to pick from what was listed rather than it being their honest opinion.

Overall, I think that my questionnaire was very useful to me. I saw my questionnaire being more of an advantage rather than a disadvantage. I am going to take all my results into account when creating my magazine, and believe my results have been useful and have helped to influence me.

Questionnaire Results...

Above are the results from my questionnaire. I have displayed all my results in pie charts, making it very clear and simple. You can easily see what the majority of people voted for, and by doing my questionnaire it has helped to influence me with the creation of my magazine. By carrying out the questionnaire, I have got more of an idea of the colour scheme, masthead, layout, lures, and expectations of a pop magazine. However, I am still unsure about whether to have a guy or girl on the front cover of my magazine, and my questionnaire didn't really help as it turned out to be 50/50. I asked a variation of different age groups and genders to complete my questionnaire, but looking at the pie charts the majority were females who were aged 16-20, which could make my results slightly more biased towards that group of people. Overall, I think that by carrying out this questionnaire, it has been a good way to freely get other peoples views and opinions. I am going to take all my results into account, and will base the creation of my pop magazine upon them.

Magazine cover montage...

Above is a slideshow of images to consider when creating my magazine front cover. I have collected images of different poses, fonts, lures, existing covers, mastheads and props and clothing. By doing this I have been able to get more of an idea of to what I want my cover to look like, and when I come to taking my front cover images, I can experiment with all the different poses I found to find the one that is best suited for my pop magazine cover.

My Questionnaire:

 <--- Here is a copy of my draft questionnaire. This helped me for when i came round to creating my final questionnaire. I have included a variation of different questions, enabling me to get lots of different peoples opinions on how I should create my magazine.

Below is a copy of my final questionnaire, which I have imported onto slideshare. I am going to give my questionnaire out to 10-20 people, to help me find out a variation of different peoples opinions on my pop magazine. My answers that I get from my questionnaire will help me with the production of my pop magazine, and it'll also help me to decide on a name and a colour scheme.

Ideas for magazine names

Here is a mind map of my ideas for my magazine names. These are all the random words that I thought of when I thought of the word 'pop'. I have circled my favourites, and am going  to put these in my questionaire to find out which name is the most popular.

Music Video

I have decided to put this music video on my blog as I believe that JLS are a big part of pop. They are usually in the pop charts and are very popular. I would expect to see them in pop magazines, and my target audience for my magazine may like reading magazines that they are featured in.