Focused audience research

Here is a video showing a focus group that I held with two people in my target audience.

These are the two different magazine covers that were shown in the focus group:

During the focus group it was stated that 'rock sound' was the better looking magazine out of the two. They stated that the colours, the layout and the overall look were better than the 'Kerrang!' one. With this feedback I will most likely stick to the colours of black, white and red for my own cover. 'Kerrang!' was described by the pair to be childish and pop magazine looking due to the overpowering of the colour orange and the crowdedness of the layout due to all of the pictures displayed at the sides and bottom. Once again to respond to this feedback I am likely not to use pictures around the edge as this is clearly something my target audience does not want.

Here are the participants with their consent forms: