Second Draft ...

This questionnaire shows the changes i have made from the feed back i got from my pilot study. However, i still felt that it could be improved further in order to get the best possible data from my target audience. So this led me to go through the questionnaire myself and make any changes or add anything i felt was necessary. This mostly included adding pictures as this would make my questionnaire more interactive and enjoyable for the people filling it in. I also decided to section my questions into categories such as general questions, music related questions etc. with a line, this would make my questionnaire my organised and easily filled in. Some questions i felt still could be changed in order to make it more understand. I used the research method off triangulation in order to get the best possible results, including both quantitative and qualitative answers.

Pilot Study

This is the very first draft i made of my questionnaire. I then carried out a small scale pilot study of 5 people in order to help foresee any problems before running the main study. This was done through whether or not people were able to understand any questions, something has been missed out and general mistakes such as spelling.

Codes and conventions

Double page speard analysis

Like the front covers i have analysed the two double page spreads above, again to expand my knowledge and understanding of typical features of a spread.

Contents Page Analysis

Rather then analysing a contents page i decided to think about the codes and convention they have and also what i thought were both good and bad points about the layout. This would then allow me to use some of these features within my own contents page.

As you can see above i have collected together three contents pages; Q magazine, Empire and Kerrang.

Empire

Positives -

• Informative as there is a brief description of the story under each page lead, informing the reader more about the story
• Consistent use of colour scheme
• Interesting due to the variety and number of stories provided

Negatives -

• Not chronologically ordered
• Very busy one side and then the other seems very simple, plain

Q

Positives -

• Good range of image sizes
• Mix of text and images on both pages
• A lot of attention on more dominant image
• Clearly labelled as a contents page

Negatives -

• Only put into two categories
• Although there are images with page leads, there is no further description of page

Kerrang

Positives -

• Easy to understand and navigate around the page
• Good use of space
• Consistent colour and text theme
• Eye catching dominant image

Negatives -

• The large image is very dominant causing a lot of the other stories to be very compact

Analysis of Magazine Front Cover

I analysed the two magazine front covers above as this would allow me to expand my understanding into what and why features are typically used in a front cover.

Four weeks in ...

We are now four whole weeks into blogging, funny how time flys. So i decided to come up with some strengths and weaknesses of my blogging experiences so far as a review. Luckily i came up with more strengths then weaknesses. The most important i found was that i do enjoy blogging, it is a lot more interactive and beats doing an essay any day. I also find it easy to understand, use and edit. Another thing i like about blogging is that it allows me to see how other classmates are getting on, showing me where i need to develop. However i did find some weaknesses, the biggest i found was that i do not update it often enough. Also, i find it difficult to upload certain features, for example a voice recording. Lastly, it is hard to show my true personality without going off task.