Audience research

Audience Research

Hey, I’m doing audience research for my media coursework. And I would be so grateful if everyone could fill it in, won’t take two minutes and is very easy. Thank you and good night.

QUESTION 1: HOW OLD ARE YOU?

15      16      17      18      19

QUESTION 2: WHAT IS YOUR GENDER?

MALE       FEMALE      

I wanted to know the gender of people I was questioning, to see if there are any correlations with their gender and their answers. For example the males could agree upon one thing, while the females could agree upon another. Gender is key top take into account when looking at my target audience. I managed to get quite equal amount of each sex so there wasn’t any dominating. 

QUESTION 3: WHAT IS THE MAXIMUN AMOUNT YOU WOULD PAY FOR A MAGAZINE?

NOTHING

50p-£1.50

£1.51- £2.50

£2.50+

QUESTION 4: WHAT IS THE MAXIMUN AMOUNT YOU WOULD PAY FOR A COLLEGE MAGAZINE?

NOTHING

50p-£1.50

£1.51- £2.50

£2.50+

I asked this question for help on how to price my own magazine and so asked people about it and found out how people were either quite generous or wouldn’t pay but never over £2.50. 

QUESTION5: WOULD YOU RATHER A COLLEGE MAGAZINE BE MORE ENTERTAINING OR EDUCATIONAL?

Entertaining

Educational

QUESTION 6: WOULD HUMOUR ATTRACT YOU TO A MAGAZINE MORE?

Yes loads

Some

A little

QUESTION 7: ON A SCALE OF 1-10, 1 BEING VERY SIMPLE AND 10 BEING VERY HIGHLY EDITED. HOW SIMPLE SHOULD THE MAGAZINE BE?

1       2      3      4       5      6       7       8      9      10

QUESTION 8: WHAT TOPICS WOULD YOU WANT TO SEE IN A COLLEGE MAGAZINE? PICK NO MORE THAN 2.

(Insert numbers into box)

1. School news
2. Students’ contributions, e.g. poems, reports
3. Sections dedicated to each subject with examples of work
4. Competitions
5. Student Questions and Answers / FAQs
6. Work and career advice / advertisements
7. Exclusive articles from employers
8. Opportunities for enrichment
9. College questionnaires
10. Tips from students and teachers on how to do well in college life
11. Boredom-Killers

I found out that most people would like to see competition and advice which I took into account when making my magazine.

       

QUESTION 9: Should there be special editions for the magazine?

Yes

No

Only on holiday occasions

I wanted to know if people wanted special edition magazines themed for different occasions because this would make them more unique and special.

QUESTION 10: In a college magazine would you prefer more pictures or text?

Picture

Text

Half and half

I asked this to find out if pictures or text was more important to an audience and saw that people preferred to have it half and half.

QUESTION 11: Would you enjoy seeing pictures of your fellow students or you in the magazine?

Yes

A few

Not at all

QUESTION 12: How many pages roughly should a college magazine be?

3-8

9-14

15-20

21+

I wanted to see how many pages people look for in a COLLEGE magazine; it seems that unlike normal magazines they would rather it a bit shorter, so more to the point.