Audience analysis/research

To gain opinions other than my own, I conducted an online survey from 'SurveyMonkey'

Here are the results (Printscreens) 10 people were surveyed

3 images on the front cover is what 40% of people voted, and also the highest vote, so I will use 1 main image and 2 smaller images

For the contents page, people believed more images should be used, with not one response favoring one image, however, 40% with the highest vote, favored 2 images, I personally though might go for around 3/4 with one main image and some subsidiary images.

Again people favored 2 images for the article page, with 30% of the respondents choosing this option

For the age group, staggeringly the majority or respondents were aged between 14-16 (70%)

For the name of the magazine, a few choices were given personally my favorites were "mosh!" and "drop tuning". As they both acquired the highest votes "with mosh! winning by 20% and drop tuning in joint second" I'm still unsure on which to choose. 

finally, I was shocked to see the participants being equal with 50/50, I expected a more male dominated survey.

Analysis of Articles

 

This magazine article is from the Rock magazine, Kerrang! it uses the 'My Chemical Romance' "font" (font used on album arts and backdrops live)  for the heading, which fans will be aware of and be able to recognise, because of the red colour and the use of all capitals, the reader is almost instantly drawn into the heading or the main image,

The article is a two page spread, has a main image of the bands lead vocalist with informative text either side of him, red is also used for the sub heading, which stands out well against the black background. White, black and red are the dominant colours, which is used frequently in a magazine of this genre.



This magazine article, is from the magazine Rocksound!, this magazine too focuses on rock/metal, but as you can see from the band 'murderdolls' it focuses on more types of extreme, less mainstream sub-genres. there is a main image of two members from the band, who have a heavier image, often defined as 'goth' or 'punk'
The rocksound logo, stands out superbly, as yellow shows up well against a black background.

This magazine as well as Kerrang! uses alot of red, black and white. Titles and headings are written in bold and all capitalized. I think the main image sets the scene for this article, Their white faces reach out to the reader, thus drawing them in. This is a two page spread, with the articles being on the right page and the pictures on the left.



This two page spread of Metal Hammer varies slightly to the other two analysed The Magazines Logo and front cover is displayed at the top of the page, the heading 'Mob Research' isn't in capital letters like the other magazines, it is also in a red colour format, I think used to imitate blood.

The main article seems to be alot bigger writing than the others, with much less information.

There is one main image (consisting of 4 images of the band members, joined into 1 main image) with the credits placed in the top right hand corner to ensure that not too much of the image is obstructed. There is a s mall subsidiary image of what seems to be one of their album arts, and of the magazine cover in the top right.
Again, red, black and white is a dominant colour, with the main image also being taken in a black and white format.