Summary of questionnaire results

My questionnaire was filled out by 10 people aged 16-17, of this sample 6 were male and 4 were female and they were all in education studying A-Levels. I asked in my questionnaire how often the participants read a music magazine, of the sample 6 of them read a music magazine weekly whilst 4 of them read one monthly; this gives me the information that it would be better to publish my magazine weekly as this is more popular with most of my participants. I also asked the question, what interests do my participants have, the majority came back with answers such as sport and music itself; this gives me the idea to somehow relate sport back to music as this will increase the popularity of my magazine. I also asked the participants what they would want to find in their ideal magazine, this was to get a picture of what features people want in music magazines in general, answers for this were mainly interviews and reviews of artists. My next question was what the participants would expect to find in a grime magazine in particular, answers for this led on from the previous answers but tended to focus on grime artists in particular, for example one of the answers was “an interview with an upcoming grime artist. I then asked the question whether I should use interviews or reviews of grime acts; this is to get an idea of what I should use for my double page spread, the majority of the participants wanted interviews in the magazine. my penultimate question was what sort of articles would you like to see in my magazine, again the answers for this were mainly reviews or interviews; this definitely tells me that one of these two should be the feature for my double page spread because they seem to be the main two things in a magazine which the audience are interested in. My final question is whether the participants would prefer my magazine to be published weekly or monthly; the majority answer was weekly and so this gives me a clear idea of when I should release my magazine.

The results gained from my questionnaire will help me extremely in deciding what sort of things to include in my magazine. I feel the 16-17 year olds who took my magazine were the correct people to take it because they are included in the target audience I wish to target. From the answers from this questionnaire I will definitely be using either an interview or a review because these were the most popular answers given by my participants. As a result of this questionnaire I have also decided to publish my magazine weekly because this seems to be the most popular answer with the participants. Overall I believe the results gained from my questionnaire will help me hugely in attracting my specific target audience which is youngsters aged between 14-25 interested in grime music and other related music genres.