Front Cover Choice

In order to ensure that the choice of mine, to present the magazine front cover in such a way and the contents page would also be favoured by people of the target audience, i produced a Questionnaire, as shown below, which was handed to 100 students at my school. When this was answered, the results were taken into consideration.

Magazine Questionnaire
(6th form)

(tick accordingly)
1) Do you read magazines often?

Yes No

2) Which would you prefer?
A magazine front cover..

With colour, in moderation
With lots of colour
In black and white

3) Which would you prefer?

Many pictures
One picture
3 or less pictures

4) Which event interests you more?

Christmas
Prom 2009

5) Would you be interested in a horoscope page?

Yes
No

6) Are you interested in the current fashion?

Yes
No

7) For any text written, would you rather it be

Formal
Informal

The overall decision in relation to the questionnaire results that; for those who do read magazines they would prefer to read one which has colour in moderation, with 3 or less pictures, containing information about the prom 2009, also including a horoscope page and updates of the current fahion. Any text provided would be informal. Therefore i am going to produce a magazine front cover and contents page which meets this objective. In order to do so i am going to alter the chosen cover picture to black and white. But put any main text in colour.

A
B
Once looking at the possible images above, A and B, i have chosen to use option B for he front cover, however i am no longer going to place another picture of someone reading a Prom invitation as i think it may make the cover more busy than it should be. I believe this is the best option as the image shows more of the school and is overall a better image than option A. To see whether the image will fit accordingly with either black/white/coloured text i am going to produce three different covers to see which one would be more suited.