Research questionnaire pie charts

This research will help me to know what my target audience wants or prefers for my magazine. Asking them helps  because they are the type of people who are interested in my chosen genre.

Research Questionnnaire

1.      Which title do you prefer? (Please circle one)

·         All Pop

·         My Pop

·         Bubble Pop

2.      Which colour scheme do you prefer? (Please circle one)

·         Bright colours

·         Dark colours

·         Light colours

3.      Where would you prefer barcode to be? (Please circle one)

·         Top left corner

·         Top right corner

·         Bottom left

·         Bottom right corner

4.      On the contents page, where would you prefer the contents? (Please circle one)

·         Right

·         Left

·         Centre

5.      Where would you prefer the main image on the Double-page spread? (Please circle one)

·         Centre

·         Left side

·         Right side

6.      What would you prefer the double-page to be like? (Please circle one)

·         An interview of a new band (fake)

·         An interview of a  existing band (fake)

Masthead mood board

Audience research

Audiences

• ·      Mass media (broadcast media), Those who consume mainstream or popular texts such as soaps or sitcoms. This is becoming more competitive than ever to attract more and more audiences in different ways and stay profitable
•     No audience=no profit
• ·      Digital tech has led to increasing uncertainty over how we define an audience.
• ·      Fragmented audiences-The division of audience into smaller groups due to the variety of media outlets.
• ·      It is now possible to view hard copies online (sometimes for free)
• ·      Free apps always have adverts; unless you pay to remove the apps- this is how some organisations make money.
• ·      Niche audience-much smaller but very influential. They are a small select group that has unique interests.
• ·      Audiences can be divided into categories based on social/grade
• ·      Psychographics- most media products can define their ‘typical’ audience

Pop music research

Pop or popular music originated in the 1950’s.  As a genre pop music is very wide-ranged as it takes elements from different genres such as, dance, Latin, Rock and others. The core elements of Pop music are it’s short to medium length songs, basic song format (verse-chorus structure), catchy hooks and melodic tunes. The main goal of pop is generally to be pleasurable to listen to, instead of focusing on artistic depth. Pop has a mass audience appeal as it is seen as mainstream music. Pop music also has an emphasis on recording, production, and technology rather than live performances; it is also used to encourage dancing and reflects trends rather than progressive development. Pop songs tend to be about relationships (make-up/ break up) and partying.

Double- page spread analysis

Contents page analysis

front cover analysis

Technology and the music industry

Evaluation of School magazine front cover

Evaluation

Front Page

In my magazine cover I have put my masthead ' Palmer Line'  at the top so that it is the first thing everyone sees and that they know which magazine it is. I chose to call my magazine this because the word' Palmer' has the word 'Palm' in it, and I think that when people see the word 'Palm' they would think of a tropical place with palm trees. I also put a sub-heading on my magazine cover which reads, “Specializing in performing arts and humanities.” This was to inform readers what the specialties of the school are, so that those who want to take part in these things know that, this is the school to attend. I also have logos of the school specialties to accompany the sub-heading and an Ofsted school award to show that the school has been seen as outstanding by inspectors. I also put the school's address, telephone number and email address so that people can contact the school if they have any questions or inquiries, but when I uploaded it onto my blog, the email address of the school was cut out, this was possibly because I set the email address outside the lines of the page. 

In my magazine cover I have added an image of a student in their school surroundings to show how students feel in the school, give the idea that students work hard and enjoy the school and to also show the kinds of resources available for them. I have also put it in the top left corner so that the student is featured but to also follow the eye movement 'Z' from left to right, then across and left to right again. I will also put an image of the school building to advertise the building, I did this because I believe that it will attract more people because of the fact that it is a new building and looks very modern. My text will surround both images so that there is a balance of text and image to suit a wide range of people as this is what I found that most people wanted from my interviews and questionnaires. From my research I also found that my target audience wanted bright colours which is why I used yellow, blue  and white as my colour scheme.

For my cover lines I changed the colour of the text box from white to blue, the font from black to yellow and added a yellow text-box outline for the most important  stories, but for the other stories I changed the text from black to white and added a white text-box outline. I did this so that the more important stories stood out and were seen before the other stories as yellow stands out more than white. I changed these feature because I felt that the magazine looked plain and simple, I also felt that it looked empty and realised that I needed to add more stories so I looked at the features that I listed in my contents page and used some in my front cover.

Contents Page
For my contents page I decided to use the same colours that used in my front page as those colours were part of my colour scheme and I did not want to make my magazine look messy and disorganized by using lots of different colours. In my contents page I made the text- boxes yellow whilst the headings were blue and the page numbers were black. I placed the heading 'Contents' down the side of the page in bold blue letters and the background was yellow, again this was sticking to the colour scheme.

I placed two pictures in my contents page to make it look more interesting. I was only able to place two pictures in my contents as I felt that I did not have images that were suitable for my headings.  One of my images was of a student using an Apple Mac, the mise-en-scene this gives is that the school has high-tech facilities available for students to use. The other image that I used was of the school's sixth form building and the outside area; the mise-en- scene for this image is that the students of the school have a modernised building with beautiful surroundings available for them.

Final Evaluation
My magazine is good compared to established magazines such as Plumline, which is Plumstead Manor school's magazine, because it is very well set out and has a set colour scheme just like Plumline magazine. My magazine represents my target audience well because the majority of them are young so would want brighter colours, which is why I used yellow, blue and white. My target audience would also want to see things about other students in the magazine for personal identity and inter-personal relationships, and have updates on the school for surveillance but would also want competitions and opportunities to go on trips and win prizes as divergence to keep their minds off of school and as a way of stress relief. By making this magazine I have learnt how to edit pictures, which is very important because when it comes time for me to make my music magazine I will already know how to edit the images for it. When shown my finished product, members of my target audience thought that the features in my contents page were very interesting and suitable as they thought that they would be good for them as students to get to know more about the school and it's subjects and it facilities, they also thought that it was good how I added a competitions page were readers could win prizes as they found it would be engaging. My target audience found that my front cover looked a little bit plain and could have used more features such as a small image but they liked the way I had set it out.