School Magazine survey

I have created this questionairer to get an idea of what my target audience would want in a school magazine (or any magazine). it will help me to decide what sort of artuicles and images to put in to my magazine and I will also be asking what peoples interests are to see what I can put in the magazine which is not to do with school neccessarily but more for the students interest.

School Magazine Questionnaire

1. What Gender are you?
(Circle Answer)

Male Female

2. How old are you?
(Circle Answer)

12-14 14-16 17+

3. How much are you willing to pay for a magazine?
(Circle Answer)

Under £1 £1-£2.50 £3-£3.50

£4-£4.50 £4.50+

4. What types of magazines do you read? (If any)
(Circle Answer, you can circle more than one if necessary)

-Film: Empire, Total Film, premiere etc.

-Music: NME, KERRANG!, Q etc.

-Gossip: Heat, OK, Hello etc.

-Gaming Magazines: Play station Magazine, Nintendo Magazine, Xbox Magazine etc.

-fashion/glamour: Vogue, Allure, Glamour etc

-Other (if you pick this then please write what type of magazine it is and it’s name)

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5. Why do you read these magazines?

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What do you do with your magazines once you have read them? (Circle answer)
-Throw them away

-Keep them

-Give them to a friend or family member

-Other (please write state what your answer is)

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7. What sort of thing would you like to see in a school magazine, what do you think would influence you to buy it?

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8. What do you think the main focus in a school magazine should be?

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9. Which magazines do you read/enjoy more?

-Magazines that are for both genders

-Magazines that focus on one gender

10.What sort of music do you like? (can you give an example e.g a band, artist)

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11.What sort of movies do you like? (can you give an example e.g a specific movie)

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12.Do you think that all schools should have a magazine?

-yes

-no

Evolve School Magazine Front Cover Evaluation

The first thing that I can say about this front cover is how simple it is. it has two main colours being blue and black; there is beams of blue and light blue behind the title (in black) and there are black silhouetes of things that represent different aspects of the school.

I would say that this magazine would not be seen as a conventional magazine if viewed by someone because is is not dominated by teasers of whats inside and there are no pictures of celebritys in the front how ever it is also fairly hard to link this cover to a school because the only thing telling me that this is a school magazine is the tiny bit of text at the bottom that actually says the name of the school but apart from that the images do not really suggest a school magazine; if anything the image of the figure with the electric guitar suggests that to me that this is a magazine and the picture of the eiffel tower and the snowman suggest that the magazine is following a band's tour or something like that.

Overall I think that this is a really cool front cover for a school magazine and whilst it not being a school magazine cover to me at first glance I consider it again and I think that it is quite cool to have something cool and different for a school magazine and I think that it is very eyecatching.