Audience Research

College Magazine Questionnaire Results: College Students

65% of the Gender that answered the Questionnaire was female.

95% didn’t know or weren’t interested in the College Magazine as of the Questionnaire. A poor result that would need to drastically change for my Magazine.

Colours that attracted the Students and were chosen the most were; Blue, Black, White, Red, Green and Yellow. These colours will be mainly used for the design and for the Magazine itself.

The majority of Students voted that they’d be willing to pay nothing or 50p for the College Magazine, combining together to get 85% of the vote.

70% picked Monthly or every Half Term as their opinion as to when they think the Magazine should be published. Meaning that if published Monthly, there would be 10 Issues or if it was published every half term there would be 6 Issues.

 50% chose that they would prefer the house choice to be informal, while closely 40% wanted a Mixture of Informal and Formal with only 10% wanting it to be just Formal. To attract more Audience, the Magazine could have 75% Informal and 25% Formal pages to attract the “Mixed” Audience.

“College Trips” and “Music” were the 2 Topics chosen the most to be part of what should be in the Magazine. But, “Free Gifts”, “Sport”

College Magazine Image

"College" Front Cover Analysis

The magazine involves clashing of light and dark tones that help create bold typography, the masthead being a prime example of being dark coloured and being front of a light, blurred background. Standing in the middle the model attracts the eye as a focal point for the Magazine, covering a third of the page leaving empty spaces for the rest of the typography. Readers will want to like the typography and buy into what is being said on the front cover as its one of the main selling points for a front cover. It is easy to read the font and typography as its bold, clear and the colours work well with the rest of the composition. Each major cover line has bigger fonts and is more noticeable as the header for each section is in a dark colour like black with the information under the header being a lighter colour that can still be visible but will still tell the readers what each header is about and what is in the magazine itself.