Magazine Questionnaire

I have analysed the conventions of mainstream magazine front covers and the deign on my magazine front cover will be largely based on the convention I have found in my research particularly for mainstream magazine front covers and for the thriller genre however, I thought it might be useful to conduct some primary research and therefore I have created a questionnaire about magazine front covers. Hopefully the results I get will be useful when it comes to create my own poster.


1. What colours do you expect the font of the magazine title to be?

Red 
Black 
White 
Orange 
Blue 
Other 


2, What do you expect to find on a mainstream magazine front cover?

Image of star 
Cover lines 
Barcode 
Taglines 
Mast Head 
Date 
Price 
Issue number 
Banners 
Web address 
Slogans 


3. What content do you expect to find in a film magazine?

Features - discussions, pictures etc. 
Interviews
Reviews 
Previous 
Poster/Adverts 



4. In what way does the design of the magazine persuade you to buy the publication?

Big, Bold title of magazine (masthead) 
Big, often colourful banners 
Big, stars as the central image 
Eye Candy 
Exclusives referred to obviously on the front 
Good colour scheme 
Competitions 


5. In what was does the layout persuade you to buy the publication?

Clear structure 
Not cluttered 
Masthead the biggest text 
The taglines in line with each other 
No overlapping