Survey Monkey Results:Magazine Production

Typography

The target audience of my product believed that the fonts used in my magazine were relevant to the genre. This is due to the fact that they rated the fonts used as 4 or if not 5 out of 5. This suggests that the font styles used in the production of my magazine were highly appealing to them meaning that they must be conventional to the genre of Hip-Hop/RnB/Rap.

Image

Upon asking the target audience which they believed to be the most appealing element within my magazine, the majority of them agreed that the images were the most engaging and appealing. Most of my target audience (all apart from one) said that they found my images conventional to the genre due to clothing/facial expressions presented and therefore rated them 4 or 5 out of 5. This means that my images highly appealed to the target audience of mainly males and females of 16-18 year olds.

Colour

The bulk of the target audience of my magazine said that the colour scheme and housestyle was really relevant to the genre of Hip-Hop/RnB because I used colours such as red, blue, black, white, gold and grey which are conventional to this genre of magazine. Also, one person mentioned the good choice of the colour red which is a conventional colour used in most Hip-Hop/RnB magazines due to the connotation of danger in which it portrays.

Layout

The vast majority of the target audience believed that the layout of the pages within my magazine were conventional to its genre. However, 1 person out of the 8 said that some pages were not conventional to the genre as they did not meet the usual layout of an RnB magazine. However, my magazine included elements of image, typography, colour and language in order to portray a conventional page layout of a Hip-Hop/RnB magazine in order for it to be relevant to its genre.

Content

A considerable amount of the target audience believed that the features on the cover and inside of the magazine I produced highly appealed to them (the target audience). In a couple of the comments it was said that the articles as well as the images are highly appealing to them which therefore draw the audience into reading/buying the magazine due to the content inside.

Strengths

Mainly the target audience suggested that the images and colours used within the magazine were it’s strongest part. This was due to the fact that they are appealing to the audience through being conventional to the genre. Along with this, fonts and features etc were also mentioned (once or twice) as strengths of the magazine. However, the overall engaging element were the colours and images used within the production of my magazine because they represented conventional elements of the Hip-Hop/RnB genre.

WeaknessesMost of the target audience believed that there were no improvements to be made. However, the couple suggested were quite precise and relevant to my product. One person mentioned that the layout of the double page spread looks cluttered which was due to the fact I had text/headlines going across the image at the top of the right page. Along with this, two others suggested that the clarity of text at points was not clear. This was because I over-lapped the text slightly along with mainly using serif font which has decorative lines and therefore may cause difficulty for the audience to read. Apart from this, the target audience didn’t suggest any further weaknesses.