Audience Research

To make a successful College magazine I had to analyse two covers to decide on what I could put on it. After this I made a Survey monkey to see what the target audience thought and then I adapted this into my work. I posted this Survey on  Facebook to see what my friends wanted on a College magazine.

This is the question for gender and the results show that only two boys done this survey. I thought I could get more answers than this however when I do my main task I will offer my survey to a bigger group for more people to do this.

I then asked a question about age to find out what age people are viewing the college magazine. I varied this from 11 to 19 year olds and then gave the option from 19+. Most people that down this were 14-16 year olds that are the same age group as me. This is good because they know similar on what they should be seeing on a college magazine.

 

 I then asked them about how much money there household gets a year on average. To be Honest I do not know why I asked this question because it has nothing to do with the overall survey.

 Next I asked what ethnic group they are in. I asked this question purely because I wanted to know what type of people are reading there college magazine and who took my survey.

Next I asked people if they read there current college magazine. This is because I wanted to know who read it and who didn't. This is good to know because I would know who has a good understanding on what the common conventions are.

I then asked the people What they like about there college magazine. This is good to know because I would know who has a good understanding on what the common conventions are. Also I would get a good idea on what they like so that I could then put the ideas from them onto my magazine.

After I asked them what they would like to see on a college magazine. This is a very good question to ask as this would give me a clear understanding on what my target audience would like to see on magazine. Most people said they would like a good clear masthead which is correct and also people said that they would like Dates/titles and also readable fonts.

Next I gave the audience three names that I would like to see on my own magazine. The three names I chose were 'School', 'Bodmin College News' and 'WHOA'. The audience chose WHOA! so i chose this for my magazine masthead.

Finally I asked the Audience if they would pay for the current college magazine. All the answers I got back were 'no'. this is because I think that people would much rather get given them as they might contain information that the students need and could be very immportant.