One of the key results I found was that nearly 100% of the participants that carried out the questionnaire stated that they would not read the magazine if it was solely based on school life. Therefore this gave me great help when planning the information that would be held in the magazine, as obviously the audience I am targeting the magazine at will not find a school based magazine very appealing. I also found when collating my results that the audience all read similar styles of magazines, the most popular were weekly gossip magazines, therefore to cater for al the readers tastes I decided to include articles on fashion etc. Another question that I asked in my questionnaire which came out with the same frequent answer was 'What would appeal to you most in reading a Sixth Form magazine?' 'School life/Social activities/Upcoming events'. Again almost 100% of the participants answered Upcoming events. This inspired me to have some sort of ongoing diary running through each issue of the magazine, keep the audience up to date with relevant events that may be occurring. Again another key question I felt was relevant to ask the participants was 'Who would you most like to see on the front cover of the magazine?', 'Students/Celebrities/Teachers' - every participant answered that they would most prefer to see students on the front cover of the magazine, this lead me to select a group of students and photograph them in what I feel is an appealing way, so that it catches the readers eye. For the price of the magazine I came to the conclusion that most participants were willing to pay £1 for the magazine, which I feel is a reasonable price. In my questionnaire I was disappointed with the result I received for suggestions for the title of the magazine, as I did not receive much feedback from the audience, therefore I came to a summery myself that I would title the magazine something that would fit in well with the titles of weekly gossip magazines, as I found that these were most popular with the target audience. Finally in my questionnaire I asked the participants if they had any other suggestions as to what the magazine should feature, I found that a frequent answer that kept occurring was UCAS tips, therefore I made a point of including this in my magazine as it seemed to be extremely popular.
In conclusion for my collated results of my questionnaire, I received lots of useful feedback that helped me when creating my magazine, my results gave me lots of pointers as to what features of the magazine would appeal to my target audience for example types of articles, photographs and the general content of the magazine.