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Monday 28 September 2009

Audience Focus Group for School Magazine

I interviewed four people within the audience range of my school magazine about school life, magazine consumption and other media consumption and noted the results:

Alex Bright
Age:16
Studying: Media Studies, Business Studies, Government and Politics, English Lang
Favourite Lesson: Government and Politics
Best thing about School: Learn new things everyday, school events
Media Consumption: Uses Spotify and iTunes to listen to around 3 hours of music each day. Watches television for around 1 hour each evening. Plays the PlayStation 3 for around 1 hour each evening. Often reads the newspaper for around 30 minutes per day. Goes to the cinema around once a month and rarely watches films at home (only around once a month).
Favourite Film: Titanic
Hobbies: Charity work, playing games
Interests: Technology, Current affairs in the media
Dislikes about magazines: Too many adverts and too little content.
Magazines Read: Rarely reads magazines, reads the Daily Mail newspaper. Reads TV guides.


Hollie Chawner
Age:16
Studying: Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Psychology
Favourite Lesson: Maths
Best Thing about School: Learning something new everyday
Media Consumption: Watches 2 hours of television each day. Listens to iPod while walking to school. Using the computer for the internet for around 2 hours (For homework and facebook). Watches 1 film per week.
Favourite Film: Twilight - Romance
Hobbies: Going to the cinema, socialising, running
Dislikes about magazines: Misleading front cover information
Magazines Read: Reads ‘Heat’ every week and ‘Closer’ every other week


Robert Humm
Age:16
Studying: Art Design
Favourite Lesson: Art Design
Best Thing about College: Many fun extra-curricular activities you can take part in, always meeting new people.
Media Consumption: 7 hours of computer use each day (for internet, Facebook, MSN messenger, Wikipedia). Uses iPod and iTunes whenever accessible. 1 hour of television each day. Watches 1 film per week.
Favourite Film: ‘Black Hawk Down’ – Modern War Film
Hobbies: Playing airsoft sport, computer games
Dislikes about magazines: Repetitive adverts
Magazines Read: Around 3 magazines regularly each month: Nuts, Airsoft International, ‘Soldier’


Chris Holroyd-Jones
Age:16
Studying: Business Studies, English Lang, Media Studies, Psychology
Favourite Lesson: Media Studies
Best Thing about School: Meeting friends at school
Media Consumption: 5 Hours each day using the computer for internet (for Facebook, Myspace, homework and MSN), 2 hours of watching television each day, around 4 hours of listening to music each day, using iPhone for music each evening. Around 2 hours of reading magazines each evening. Rarely goes to the cinema, and watches around 1 movie each week if there is nothing else to do.
Favourite Film: The Dark Knight
Hobbies: Socialising
Interests: Cars
Dislikes about magazines: Boring articles which he isn’t interested in
Magazines Read: Autocar, Classic and Sports Cars, Car, Auto-express

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