On my research into how to gain audience feedback, I read something that suggested I download some media packs off popular magazine websites, so I downloaded those of Clash and Spin. This is probably something I should have done when I was deciding on my target audience, as they have reader profiles that are so specific, but I think I can use the information off these to inspire me for ways collect audience feedback. It also gives me an idea of what my audience should be looking for. Just something I noticed when reading them, going back to my genre idea, they are really focused on expressing the fact that their readers are individual and lead the crowd, so I'm very glad I chose to do a very mainstream magazine as I think it means my audience is wider. Also something unusal, both magazine have much larger proportion of men readers, so even though mine began as not gender specific, maybe it's a good thing it's it developed into a magazine aimed at females.
I have 3 methods to collect audience feedback, mainly to see how well I have encoded features aimed at my readers and to see how realistic people think it is, and they are;
- Quotes - I want to get some fairly detailed quotes off some hopefully unbias people about who they think it's aimed at and if it looks professional.
- Questions - I've got a list of seemingly obscure questions I gained from a media textbook, and I'd fill them in myself according to my preferred reading of my magazine, and ask a small smaple to do the same and see if their answers match at all with mine. Hopefully this idea will work, but it may be slightly too obscure.
- Magazine stand - I had the thought of asking my local Borders if I could just place cover on the music stands for an hour or so, and watch discretely to see if anyone picks it up or looks at it. I think this would be a real test of professionality, but I'm doubtful that I'll be able to carry out this experiment, but it may be worth asking.
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