Questionnaire - Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages
One of the advantages with a questionnaire is that it does not take long to make. Whats great is about this is that once it has been finished and dished out to the target audience, it allows me to be getting on with other work, therefore saving time. Another advantage is that most of the questions are mixed answer questions, so the reader can circle answers which i have put on there to make it easier for me to evaluate, and to avoid bias results. This makes producing graphs a lot easier, and again saves time.

Disadvantages
One of the problems with questionnaires are that if some of the target audience are grouped together, then they might all have the same answers as they will confer with each other. This means my results would not be reliable, which would mean I could not use them to help construct my music magazine.

My results will help me to influence my design choices because I can find out what the most popular answers are to my questions. This means I will be able to find out what people prefer, so when I include this in my magazine people will prefer it.

Questionnaire

What is your age?


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What gender are you?

• Male
• Female

What sort of music magazines do you buy currently?


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Do you listen to metal?

• Yes
• No

If so, are you interested in young, new metal bands or do you stick to the original, well known metal bands? (Such as Metallica)

• New metal bands
• Original metal bands

How much would you spend on a magazine?

• £1 - £1.99
• £2 - £2.99
• £3 - £3.99
• £4+

If you see a magazine with a lure (e.g. free posters), are you more likely to buy it?

• Yes
• No

Do you prefer a bright colour scheme or a dark colour scheme?

• Bright
• Dark

In a magazine, do you prefer there to be lots of pictures or more text?

• More pictures
• More text

Do you think the main picture on the front cover of my magazine should be a male artist or a female artist?

• Male
• Female

Does the exclamation mark in the masthead 'To The Stage!' attract you to read the magazine, as it is loud and stands out?

• Yes, it does
• It doesn't make a difference

Do you think that I should include a logo for my magazine, so it stands out from other music magazines?

• Yes
• No

If an interview with a well-known band were included in the magazine, would you be more likely to read it to maybe find out more about them?

• Yes
• No

When you pick up a music magazine, what makes you want to read it, what draws you in?

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Customer Profile

My music magazine will be based on modern metal. This is a medium that primarily targets males between the ages of 14 and 25, but I would like it to appeal to females as well within this age bracket, therefore i can keep this in mind when it comes to colours and pictures for my music magazine. 

This is Dave. He is 20, and loves finding out about new metal bands as they inspire him, and he likes to help and support them along the way. Dave likes his personal image and stands up for it, in times of meeting people with musical differences. He attends many gigs as he enjoys the sound of live music, and would like his magazine to promote new bands, to get them known and tell the people how talented these young band members can really be. 

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