Interviews Summary

I have done four interviews, alongside the 5 questionnaires that I handed out, in order to get some information about people's expectations of a magazine and what they like to find in a magazine. The first two interviews I did were more formal, it was more of a structured interview, where as the second two interviews were unstructured interviews. All of the questions I asked were open questions with the opportunity for the interviewee to respond with any possible answer that they wanted.

From the first two interviews, I found that freebies, posters, articles, pictures and a good layout are what would be expected in a good magazine. Most people buy magazines to read into and keep up to date with the topics that they like, find out about bands or fashions. £2 was thought of as a good price for a weekly magazine.

From the second two interviews, I found that the main feature for a good magazine was good contents, and avoiding agony aunt letters. The cover was said to play an important part in whether or not someone buys a magazine as it is the first part of the magazine seen by one of the interviewees, where as the content was said to be the main factor in whether a magazine is bought or not for the other interviewee. £1.50 was the general price that was thought of as reasonable for a weekly magazine, for a monthly magazine, £3 or £4 to £5 was suggested.

From the information that I have recorded, I will use the thoughts of the interviewees to create a magazine that demonstrates some of the features that were mentioned.