College Magazine Draft Cover & Contents

Analysis of questionnaire results

Analysis of questionnaire results

Our questionnaire was completed in order to find out what sort of thing we should be aiming to produce for making our own college magazine. The questions in which we asked were thought of in order to get us this kind of information.

The first thing that we asked people was ‘What would you like the magazine to involve?’, followed by a series of different options that they could choose as many as they wanted to from. The top three results in which we took in were gaming, followed closely by general college information and then music. This gives us a general idea what people will be interested in reading about in a college magazine and what we should think about putting into ours.

We then asked people whether they would be interested in contributing towards the magazine itself, and we got quite a split result of yes, no and maybe, with ‘no’ coming just out on top. With this in mind, we know that there are a few people out there that would be willing to help us with the project, but we will need to do more of it ourselves.

Then we asked what people would be willing to pay for the magazine. The vast majority of people went for the option of £2-£3, over half in fact. This again gives us valuable information that we can use when thinking about what to do for when we are in the process of creating our own college magazine.

We then decided that we wanted to find out how often we need to publish it, and we gave the options weekly, fortnightly, monthly and termly. Weekly came out on top by quite a bit, followed by monthly, fortnightly and then termly. This was important for us to know because we didn’t want to be making the magazine too often, or not enough, getting the results back for this allows us to get a general idea of when to publish it.

After that we wanted to find out how people wanted the magazine to look colour wise. 63% of people said that they wanted the magazine to be full of bright, eye catching colours opposed to it being neutral, pale colours.

We then wanted to find how long people thought the articles should be. We gave them the options double page, full page or half page. We found that half page and double page were quite close votes wise, but whole page got the most votes by a long run, meaning we now know how much we should be thinking about writing when producing articles for the magazine.

The idea of having competitions in the magazine then popped up. We wanted to know whether people would be interested in having competitions within the magazine, the answers we got back were very close, 58% of people said yes and then 42% said no, so this isn't too conclusive on whether we should do competitions, but we get a general idea that more people tend to be interested in the magazine if there were competitions.

Then we decided to find out where people would want to buy the magazine from. All of the answers we took in were very close but library tipped the rest closely followed by online and reception, with canteen being at the bottom of people’s choice. We are now know whereabouts we should think about putting the magazine for when we want to sell it.

The final question we asked was whether people currently read any other magazines. We got results of 63% saying no, and the rest (37%) saying yes. This gives us an idea of how many people actually read magazines already, allowing us to see how many people we are aiming to probably reading our own.