Research rationale

I have easy access to teenagers between the ages of 16 – 18, however as I go to a sixth form with a school attached I also have access to young people aged 11 – 15. I believe that surveys will be the best way for me to approach my audience research. I say this because I can create questions which will give me the exact information I need and therefore benefit me the most. I am planning to do my survey online and from there sharing it with my contacts on social media sites so that a decent amount of people will answer it. For my focused audience research I plan to do an interview with one or more people. With an interview I can find out the persons thoughts in a one to one environment where they will not feel pressured to say a certain thing to impress peers and unlike a survey I can ask them to expand on certain points that I find relevant and that may help me. The genre of magazine I have decided to study and eventually create the cover, double page spread and also contents page to is rock but more specifically alternative rock. I have chosen this genre as it is a style of music that I personally enjoy.