Audience Feedback

I needed to get some feedback for my music magazine  so I created a questionnaire on a website called Survey Monkey. This questionnaire focuses on my front cover, contents page and double page spread.   I got a few friends who fit within the target audience to take the survey and I also  shared this link online via social media.  I have posted some screenshots below.

This screenshot shows the section of the survey for  my double page spread. It contains 4 questions in order to gauge how my target audience would react to the magazine.  The first question is presented in  a response box format and it asks whether the person thinks that the layout looks suitable for a pop magazine.   The other 3 questions ask for a short written response and this was useful for me to get some individual and personalized  feedback.  These questions ask what the audience like, dislike and any improvements that they could suggest. I used this same style of questioning for the contents page and for the front cover.  Below I have posted a screenshot of my contents page survey page.

The chart above shows the response to the double page spread layout question.  Generally most people surveyed agreed that the style of the magazine suited the pop genre that I was trying to emulate.   I received a lot of positive feedback for my work and below I have posted a few comments that I received.  A lot of people surveyed liked the layout with a few commentating that they liked how the colour of the text matched the 3D glasses.

 

 

 

 

I also asked people to suggest any improvements that they could think of and one common theme for all three pieces of work was that the white background looked a bit plain.  White was one of the original colors that I picked when designing the color scheme as it contrasts the green and the black text.  While a stylized background would make the double page spread look more interesting, it could however make it more difficult to read the actual text.  I also wanted to have the same background on the contents, cover and article in order to keep the colours consistent. Another issue reported was that some of the JPEG images were too small so it was difficult for people to read the actual article text. I later rectified this issue by uploading larger images to the survey.