Research

Before beginning our student magazine cover, we researched using current student magazine covers and contents pages that already exist, to analyse the essential items needed on a cover. We realised certain similarities between the different covers and decided to create a questionaire. This meant we could directly address the audience we were personally aiming at (for example students aged 16+) with questions relating to their magazine giving them a direct input. It also meant we were able to distinguish between what they wanted to see available. The questionaire had 9 questions in total and had many ways of recording personal preferance. For example; tick boxes, recording in order of number preferance, circling the item/s that was mostly attributed to them and their hobbies. From the results we were able to discard and include only the topics/ issues that were most popular with the majority of the consensus. For example; Music was an extremely popular pastime which meant it was then something we would feature in the magazine for example; local gig guides and band reviews. We were able to understand the style in which we should write in (chatty).
The results from these questionaires as a whole class, are clearly shown below in a bar chart form: The total consensus is 13.