Questionnaire

Although I have already done some asked a small sample of people from my target audience some individual questions about my magazine, I have decided to devise a questionnaire which includes all of the questions that I would like answered about different conventions of my magazine. I am going to ask the questions to 20  female teenagers aged between 12 and 18 as this is the target audience for my magazine. I will be able to use the results from this questionnaire to help me decided the layout and content of my magazine. I have tried to include a diverse set of questions which covers all aspects of my magazine. If there is anything else that I think of after I have completed the questionnaire I will be able to ask another sample of people at a later date. I am going to create graphs from the results of my questionnaire so that I can easily analyse the data. I will post the results, graphs and analysis of the results after I have completed the questionnaire.

Chosen Locations

I found in difficult to chose just one location for my images as I thought different locations could be used for different types of pictures. After evaluating the pros and cons of each locations I have decided to use the locations that are displayed in this post. I am hoping to get a variety of good quality images in each location then be able to choose the best ones.

Potential Locations

The images that are displayed in this post are images that I have taken myself of the locations that I am considering for the photo shoot for my images for my magazine. I decided on having an outside photoshoot because I think that the autumnal background would look good in the images and is a unique setting that not many magazines use. The images are arguably the most important part of my magazine and the background of the images is key, so it is essential that I choose the correct setting. The images below are of different locations in a local park. I took all of the images on the same day at approximately the same time and did not take into consideration the lighting effects as these images were only to get an idea of what the different locations looked like and so I could compare them.

Key Conventions of a Double Page Spread.

This is a double page spread from a magazine titled 'The Crack' that I have used to show the key conventions of a magazines double page spread. "The Crack" is a free magazine distributed in the North East of England. It is a free magazine which focus' on arts and has a target audience of art students. Although this may not be a 'teen pop' magazine it will share many of the same key conventions. Looking at this magazine has helped me to learn the different conventions that are included on a double page spread. I am hoping to include the majority of these in my magazine although some may have to be adapted to my chosen genre. When comparing this double page spread to other magazines I have found that the majority of the conventions are essential to giving a magazine a polished and professional look. There is no convention that does not have a purpose, although some may be more obvious than others. I plan to use mind map to help me deconstruct three double page spreads from 'teen pop' magazines. It will help as I will be able to refer to this to ensure that I have highlighted all of the conventions and discussed how they effect the audience.

Questionnaire Results #2



I decided that the target audience for my magazine would be femal teenagers and young adults. I deicded this becuase stereotypically this the the gender and age range that are stereotyped to read this genre of magazine. In this questionnaire I asked 10 males aged between 12 - 16 if they would be interested in reading a 'teen pop' magazine because I was interested to see if any teenage boys would be interested in reading my magazine. Had more males been interested in reading my magazine then I would have altered some of the contents so it appealed more to them. I would have included more images of male celebrities and some articles that would appeal to their interests. However since only 30% of the males that I asked said that they would be interested in reading a 'teen pop' magazine I am going to focus the content to my original target audience which is female teenagers and young adults.

Questionnaire Results

The target audience for my magazine is 12-16 year olds. I conducted a questionnaire asking 20 12 - 16 year olds if they would take part in a magazing competition. I asked both males and females because I havent yet decided which gender I would like to target. Magazines competitions are a common convention of teen pop magazines so I would like to include one in my magazine. As you can see from the results 80% of the teenagers who I asked would take part in a magazine competition. Since the majority of my sample said they would take part in a competition I am going to include one in my magazine. I haven't decided what the competition will be yet but I am goning to try and link it to a teen pop band.

Essential Conventions

These mind maps show the conventions that I consider to be essential to my magazine. Looking at multiple front covers and contents pages has helped me to see conventions that are common in the 'teen pop' genre. I would like to include as many of these as possible in my magazine. The conventions were set out in very different ways in all of the magazines that I looked at. I want to take ideas from each magazine and recreate them into my own unique 'teen pop' music magazine that will appeal to my target audience.