Initial Ideas for my Main Task

My initial ideas for my main task of my magazine include creating a fashion music magazine that will appeal to an audience of young adults (age 15-25). I will be using a modern simple layout to appeal to the target audience and will apply what the content of the magazine will be like, using feedback from a questionnaire I can gather what will appeal most to the target audience which will include genres of music, colour use, content and general use of the magazine, one of the questions which ask whether the main feature of the magazine should include an up and coming artist or a popular one and will determine the layout of my cover and my double page spread. I will also be centering the magazine around fashion and include this in a lot of my content including use of celebrity fashion and news.

College Magazine contents page

College Magazine front cover

Textual Analysis of a College Magazine

Questionnaire Data Summary

In our questionnaire data, we found that subsequently more females took part than males did, having 21 females take part and only 9 males. From this we found that the most popular content topics were gossip/celebs, TV/film reviews and music, and the three most popular colours readers like to see on the front cover of a magazine are pink, blue and purple. We also found that subsequently more people said that freebies or discounts would encourage them to buy a magazine, and this should be taken into consideration when making a front cover. Also from our results we found that readers mostly prefer to see people or one person on the front of a magazine cover than anything else and most people said the prefer a magazine to be posted every month. Very divided, we found that just over half of the people we asked said they would read a college magazine if one was published, and only 16 of the 30 people asked prefer to read a magazine by paper rather than on the internet. Finally we asked people if they would contribute to the magazine if it was made and 14 people said yes and 16 said no. With all this data we can us this to create a popular magazine using preferred methods by students.

Questionnaire Data