Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Research Rationale

My target audience will be aimed at 16-25 year old young adults who are in the transition stage in terms of maturity and growth. This key age range is a very influence generation, who are easily effected by media sources such as magazines, music, television, radio and social media. By targeting this specific age range, it allows me to broaden my ability to create something fun and effective as well as being able target specific issues within society. Research can easily be carried out as I, myself, am a current sixth form student who is in the process of the transition stage of college to university. With my target audience being within the sixth for it makes it easier to carry out suffienct research which will enable me to direct and produce the best magazine possible, reflecting both the wants of the target audience and the conventions shown within a hip hop magazine.

In terms of research is hope to carry out focus groups, allowing me to gain a general concentrated understanding of what my target audience look for within a hip hop magazine. I also hope to conduct interviews which will enable me to ask specific questions and get the consumers of magazines perspective of their understanding of music magazines and what they would like to read. These forms of research methods are formally known as Qualitative research.

In regards to getting numerical figures a few methods that can be done could be surveys and questionnaires. This can make my research detailed in terms of gaining general information. By using these forms of gaining information I can develop an understanding of preference and relevance from my target audience for example whether they prefer to see red or white on a master-head. These forms of research methods can be identified as Quantitative research.


Web 2.0 will be an important element of research. I’ll need to use web 2.0 for my questionnaire and survey, and a camera for filming my focus groups and interviews as my target audience (peers) analyse the magazines and give me productive feedback 

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