questionaire

i have made a questionaire for research for my music magazine. i have asked how much people would pay and how often they buy magazine. i have also have also asked which genres people prefer and which of my titles they prefer. i came up with a wide variety of titles that could fit into most genres, to make it easy for people to fit a title with their chosen genre. i used a few famous song lines as well as other titles that connote a certain genre.. i also asked what to include in my magazine so i could gain ideas of what to put in my contents page and which pages i should include within my magazine. i then asked for colours that would fit with the participants chosen genre which will help me choose a colour scheme that fits in with the genre.
this is my questionaire
Music Magazine Questionnaire

Hello, my name is Charlie Quainton and I am studying A level Media. For my main project I am making a music magazine and I would greatly appreciate it if you could fill out this questionnaire, to help with my research. This questionnaire is completely confidential and the results are only for my AS project.

(Circle appropriate)

1) Gender: Male Female

2) Age Group: 13-14 15-16 17-18 19-20 21+

3) How often do you purchase music magazines: every week every month

fortnightly rarely never
4) Which of the Genres do you prefer:
Alternative Indie Metal folk

Drum and Bass Garage Rock
5) Which of these names fit in with your chosen genre:
The Tune Turn It Up The Amp Rage Paint It Black

Injection Bass Pedal Music Breakdown What Noise? Walk the Line
Way We Live Can’t stop real sound

6) How much would you pay for a magazine: £1-£1.50 £1.51-£2 £2.01-£2.50

£2.51-£3 £3.01-£3.50 £3.51-£4 Other .

7) What would you like in a magazine: Reviews music fashion

discounts and promotions latest band news interviews competitions

musical events other .

8) Would you like the magazine more about: A) live music B) album/single news

9) What type of colour scheme would go with your chosen music Genre:

Write here: .

10) Do you think a magazine of your chosen genre would sell well: Yes No

Why: .



Thank you for filling out this questionnaire. Your comments are greatly appreciated and will help me to decide the style and look of my magazine.

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Prelimary task

i have to have done some prelimniary work for the course. for my priliminary task i am creating a magazine for school, to get a basic knowledge and skill at making and producing a front cover and contents page. i have to have make a front cover and a contents page. firstly i will do research such as a questionaire to see what pupils want in a school magazine.

Questionnaire
I am a 6th form student from Sheldon School and am making a student magazine. Thank you for filling this form out and it is greatly appreciated.

Year: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Gender: Male Female

How often do you read magazines?
Often sometimes rarely never

What subjects do u want from a magazine?
Music film school sports Games school news
Other:


How much would you be willing to pay for a school magazine?


What types of articles would you want in the magazine?

Reviews interviews features rants comedy
Other:


Do you think there would be a need for a school magazine?
Yes no

Would you want the colours of the school to be the main colours of the magazine?

Yes No something new

Anything else you would want from the magazine?

this is my questionaire that i gave out to ten students from my year. i think given more time i would have given out more and to other years to actualy find out what people want, but as this is just a preliminary task i just took a small sample. my results showed that pupils would want a magazine and that most would be willing to pay a small sum of money for it. however most pupils didnt want thae magazine to be mainly about school and to have other articles and features mostly on film and music. most people thought that using the school colours would be a good idea for the magazine so i will use the school colours to keep cohesion between the front and contents page.

then i needed to start on the front cover. firstly i drew some sketches of the front cover. i had to meet certain criteria from the exam board. this was to include a medium close up picture and to do a school magazine. i have done a school magazine and so i sketched my front cover with a medium close up bust of a student. i set out the whole page with headers and titles. this helped me picture the end product as i could see what looks good where. for my front cover i decided to use sheldons recent GCSE results as a focus as the main article in my magazine. in my sketch i drew a year 12 student smiling with sheldon success written underneath. at the head of the page i put the magazines title 'sheldon news'. i then went into the common room to find a student. i took some pictures for my page.

these are my original pictures. i took a few pictures so i had more to choose from. i decided i liked the lighting and the compostion in my first pictures of sam. i feel he is well centered and the light on his face is pretty good. i feel the shot is well framed and composed and it is in focus. i dont really like the the background noise because if i use it completely and bleed it on my front page then some of the titles and articles will be hard to read. if i had more time i would have taken some more pictures with a clearer back ground but as i dont i think i will do some editing on photoshop.

i uploaded my chosen image onto photoshop and decided to cut out the background as there was too much going on and would be hard to distinguish any headers or taglines. instead i made the background coherant with the rest of the magazine by using the school colours. this came out pretty well but i dont think i will use it on my magazine.

after finishing off my front cover i proceeded onto my contents. i used the same font and colour scheme to aid cohesion and also put the mast head in an oval like the front cover. i drew out all the sub headers and boxers and in the end the contents page was relitivley easy to do. i feel however again i did not have enough time so ended up rushing it a bit, somehting i will try not to do on my actual project.

i feel this preliminary task was important as i got the basic idea and feel of what it takes to make a magazine. i also aquired some new knowledge of photoshop and how to use it to get the effect i wanted.

this is my final front cover. it ended up reasonably but i dont think it has a very high quality and looks unprofessional which i will try to avoid in my magazine like the blue back ground.

Introduction to project

For my AS media studies i will research about magazines and the industry surrounding them. i have created a preliminary magazine, for my school, so i could get used to using photoshop and other computor programs to create the look of my magazine, whilst reaseaching the magazine industry and useful knowledge, to put towards my main music magazine.
this series of blogs will present my work and how i am progressing each week, showing my research, planning and production of my magazine. this will keep track of what i have done so i can keep up to date with the magazine. first of all i shall do research into the magazine and for things i should include with the use of a questionaire.

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