Potential Questions For Focus Group

Cover page As you know I have gathered you here today to talk about my pop music magazine. I have chosen you because you fit into my audience therefore your opinions will be valid and useful in order to please my target audience. As you know a cover page as many things from the main image, to a selling line and also cover lines therefore i will be asking questions about this. I am now doing to give you exsisting cover pages from pop magazine to help you if you become stuck on answering a question
1. What elements of a main image attract you to a music magazine?
To be expanded in detail As you will know there are many different hair styles etc that are associated with a particular genre of music e.g punk rock with spiky hair. Therefore what would attract you the most to a pop magazine? Give out pictures: Here are a range of different styles what is you favourite and why? Elements: Hair style: Makeup: ideas? Fashion: colours of clothing? Other?

2. What do you like the mise en scene of the main image to be?
e.g. plain white back group like a high scaled shout or in a general setting ?

3. What would like to see on the front cover apart from the main image?
Anything that is on the cover page will be inside the magazine here are some ideas from my questionnaire to help you. I know I will be using recent charts hits in my magazine but What do you think of the other suggestions? Are they appropriate for my target audience?
Interviews with popular music artist (e.g. their lifestyles/gossip) Make up tips Recent Charts Hits Recent fashion

Potential Questions For Focus Group 4. Would you be interested in other images on the front cover?

Double Page spread

This will be based on the main image model (a celebrity)

5. What kind of main interview would you want to see?

It is going to be in the styling of a celebrity therefore can you think of things you would want to ask them 6. Can you think of questions you would want answers to?

Content Page
For my content page I will be trying to encourage lots of different images as i know from my questionnaire that the audience would prefer images to text I was thinking about having a band on the content page therefore but unsure of the gender due to different opinions in my questions therefore

What gender would attract you the most and why?