College magazine questionnaire

I created a questionnaire in order to try and discover what students want in a college magazine and created questions that would help direct me to exact details in my design. This would then help me as i would have my magazine nearly conpletely conceptualised once the results had been recovered. This questionnaire has helped me to understand that the stereotypical values of social groups can be quite similar, or can be adapted to fit close to suiting all of the audience. This has also helped me to understand more about how to target a niche audience. My questionnaire results were long and productive. i have summarised the evaluated results below.

By asking a varied sample of students and an even count of each gender i have recovered these results:

1. My audience are planning on staying within college for 2 years
2. My audience have a keener interest into the core subjects (english, maths science) than the varied other options available.
3. A much larger number of my audience are focused on taking A-levels rather than BTEC, GCSE or other
4. The students like to see images of work created by other students and want to be able to see college life summarised into gossip points
5. Students rarely read magazines (mainly due to online alternatives)
6. Students that do read magazines enjoy a wide variety of genre's
7. these same students enjoy the magazine sections that focus on lifestyle problems and personal issues
8. My audience think student life and humour are crucial to the magazine cover
9. Students are prepared to pay on average £2 for this magazine
10. My audience prefer to have much more appealing elements, visually, in the design of a magazine, rather than full pages of text, "it would entice the reader" "more immediately appealing"
11. Brighter colours are more apealing to students for a college magazine
12. The students are happy with the college logo being the magazine logo
13. When asked to pick which categories would be important for a regular feature, all catgories were selected an almost equal amount. they also suggested "horoscopes, puzzles and music" to be featured
14. My audience think events and music should be featured as a special feature in the magazine
15. My audience like the name 'ENORF' for a possible masthead
16. My audience also like "Capturing youth culture as it happens" as an appropriate slogan
17. The students suggested "comic sans MS" to be used for the bulk of the text and "Broadway" for the titles
18. Gender is not important for the model for my magazine cover, nor does their individual grade levels and levels of achievements.
19. The model should be featured in a college location
20. The clothing options for the model are not important to my audience