Contents Page Feedback

After finishing my contents page I requested feedback so as to gain a verity of responses that would help me improve the quality and professionalism of my creation. Here are the responses I received after sending my work to people:


"It looks like a good start, but could do with a lot of improvement. Perhaps shorten the 'interview' list to one column and give the other two different headings."
- Clayton Jones (Student)


"I love what you've done to the background. However it looks too disorganised and the 'PG's seem unnecessary. I recommend aligning it better and getting rid of those hideous 'PG's that seem to be all over the place."
- Lucy Tate (Student)


"Well... its better than anything I could make, but it looks slightly too messy for a contents page"
- James Ferdinand (Student)


"Incredible... nothing else to really say about it"
- Richard Scott (Student)


"You should really sort out the alignment, it seems far to amateur left as it is. Also those random 'PG's before the page numbers just seem like a waste of space. Maybe change the bottom segment as well whilst your at it... seems silly to have so many interviews."
- Gregory Bates (Student)

This feedback has been brilliantly insightful and will definitely help me to dramatically improve my contents page and thus the overall quality of my magazines design. I shall begin working on these changes as soon as possible.

Double Page Spread Feedback

Upon completing the construction of my double page spread I requested a group of people to review what I had created and thus supply me with any feedback needed to improve my project. These are the responses which I received from people.


"Wow! This is crazily good! Personally I don't see any need for change."
- Thomas Baker (Student)


"I really liked how you made the image continue over both pages of your magazine. Lovely, clear layout as well."
- Arnold Thomson (Student)


"Gorgeous use of graphics. Would love to know how you made it."
- George Mills (Student)


"Haha those 3D shapes are absolutely incredible!"
- Amy Hanson (Student)


Seeing as non of the feedback which I received pointed out any negative aspects I have decided not to change my double page spread at all.

Font Cover Feedback

After completing my final front cover I asked some people for feedback on it. This was done so as to identify whether there were any major errors with it that needed to be fixed and to see if the general reaction to it was positive or not. These are the responses that I was given:

“Haha I love it.”

- Micah Hills (student)

“Looking good! It is hard to make out the information next to the barcode however. Also it may help changing the 'featuring' to another musicians name as the magazine is already obviously featuring them via placing them on the front page.”

-John Glasspool (student)

"It clearly captures the type of music you were going for. It also reminds of gaming magazines in a way, largely due to the use of 3D graphics."
- Alex Anderson (student)

“Ohh cool! Well I really like the editing. The bits where you used cinema 4D are great, especially the logo and Joe's face. The artists you featured are great too.”

- Kieran Brown (student)

“I think that the editing looks brilliant, but you should fill in the top right corner with text or something because it looks empty and bland so far. Also, adding emphasis to the ‘And many more’ section could really improve it.”

-Benjamin Cook (student)

The most constructive views of the feedback were from Benjamin Cook. All of the point that he made were very valid and I shall include them in my finished product. These changes that I am going to be making are to add some text to the top right and to add an exclamation mark to 'And many more' as well as increasing its font size. In addition to this I have decided to take the advice of John Glasspool and change the barcode and 'featuring' parts of my magazine.

Audience Survey

To determine what I should include and focus on in my magazine's font cover, contents page and double page spread I created a survey with the website 'SurveyMonkey' (website link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/). I used this method so that I would be able to instantly distribute it to many people virtually, thus saving time and paper by doing so as well being able to reach a far larger amount of people than I would have been able to by going around and doing it physically. The reason I created the survey was to give me an insight into various properties of an audience. The questions asked were:

1) What is your gender?

Male
Female

2) How old are you?

0-12

13-20

21-30

31-40

41+

3) How often do you buy music magazines?

Never

Very rarely (once or twice a year)

Occasionally (monthly)

Often (weekly)

4) How much would you spent on a music magazine?

Nothing

£0.01 - £1.00

£1.01 - £2.00

£2.01 - £3.00

£3.01+

5) Do you ever read music magazines via computer or mobile phone?

No

Yes

6) Do you ever listen to electronic music?

Yes
No

7) What is your favourite genre of electronic music?

Dubstep

EDM

Trance

Drum and Bass
Electro

Speedcore

I do not listen to electronic music

The reason these were asked was so that I would be able to craft my magazine to better suit the audience and their desires, as well as identifying whether or not I should include some features such as a website link and allow me to make small changes like changing the sale price.

Here is screenshot of the survey that I sent out:

After sending out my survey (I mostly sent it to people I have listed as 'friends' on Facebook, and to people I have added in my email contact list) until I had thirty responses I was left with these results (number of results in brackets):

1) What is your gender?

Male (18 males)
Female (12 females)

2) How old are you?

0-12 (0)

13-20 (27)

21-30 (2)

31-40 (0)

41+ (1)

3) How often do you buy music magazines?

Never (5)

Very rarely (once or twice a year) (11)

Occasionally (monthly) (8)

Often (weekly) (6)

4) How much would you spent on a music magazine?

Nothing (3)

£0.01 - £1.00 (7)

£1.01 - £2.00 (14)

£2.01 - £3.00 (6)

£3.01+ (0)

5) Do you ever read music magazines via computer or mobile phone?

No (19)

Yes (11)

6) Do you ever listen to electronic music?

Yes (21)
No (9)

7) What is your favourite genre of electronic music?

Dubstep (4)

EDM (8)

Trance (1)

Drum and Bass (6)
Electro (2)

Speedcore (0)

I do not listen to electronic music (9)

These results most importantly show that I should price my magazine between £1.01 and £2.00 (I shall probably set its price to £1.99), that I should add a website link and that the main focus of my magazine should be on the EDM genre of music.

Targeted Audience

Here is what I intend my target demographic to be:

Age:
I intend to aim my magazine to people between 13 to 25 as I myself am between those age boundaries and shall therefore be far more comfortable writing for people of similar ages. As well as this, electronic music is a very lively and new genre of music which is extremely popular in clubs and therefore it currently mainly attracts the younger generation.

(picture of a person DJing to a young audience)

Gender: 
Female 50% and Male 50%, I have decided to refrain from focusing on a single gender (e.g. via using photographs of semi naked ladies so as to attract a large male audience) so that my magazine can appeal to everyone and become something that is easily shareable among peoples friends. Due to this approach I believe that my potential influence will be vastly expanded and thus draw in a far bigger audience.

Economic Group: 
Primarily the middle or lower classes as I intend to make my magazine relatively cheap and affordable (£3 or less hopefully).

Musical Preference:
Electronic music, mainly focusing on EDM (electronic dance music), house and dubstep as they currently seem to be the most popular of the sub-genres of the music.