Student Pitch Questions and Feedback

QUESTIONS

1. Which title / name in the following list do you think represents an "indie" magazine well and why?

    - aspire
    - explore
    - aspire & explore
    - universal
    - happenings
    - inspire
    - music pulse
    - indie central
    - must

2. Would your ideal music magazine have more text than photos? If yes, why? If no, why not?

3. What would you like to feature as your central image and why?

4. In the featured images, would you prefer staged / "posed" photographs with a backdrop, or more natural photographs (playing at a concert for example)?

5. How would you prefer information displayed?

    - in an article form?
    - in an interview form?
    - in a questionnaire form?


I will obtain my feedback in a small focus group of 3-4 people who will form my target audience. This will then allow me to get a sense of what everyones individual thoughts are. I am then going to write my final thoughts.

FEEDBACK

1.

    - aspire

    - explore

    - aspire & explore

    - universal

    - happenings

    - inspire

    - music pulse

    - indie central

    - must

Out of the list of nine possible titles for my magazine, three remain that my target audience likes / prefers. One person who liked the name "indie central" said that this connotes that the magazine will be purely based around all things indie and that more people would perhaps buy it as they would know this from the name. Another said that "explore" would be right for the masthead as many indie magazines are just one word and they feel as though this would connote the genre.

2. The majority of the people I asked said that they would prefer more text than images. The people who liked more text said that still like the text to be broken up into sections as large chunks of text can bore the reader and then they will just turn the page. People who preferred more images to text said that they like looking at the photos and that sometimes photos can say more than words.

3. A central image is the first thing a reader will see, in my opinion. It needs to be striking and positively eye-catching. My target audience said that they would love to see a posed image, maybe in a studio or with a plain background / backdrop, of the main attraction.

4. The majority (4 out of 5) said that posed images are better as it looks more organised and clean - this allows the reader to view it easily with out being confused that there are too many cluttered, busy images.

5. There was no set decision for this question. Two people said that they preferred an interview to display the information as this is exciting and allows the reader to really get to know the person or people being interviewed. But another one person made a very good point that a questionnaire can also help obtain knowledge about the person or people being interviewed.