Market research! Focus group

So yesterday I conducted a focus group which you can view below, this focus group helped me a lot as two of my best mates, Tia and Amal are into the genre rock and I felt that i could get most of my information from them. Also because they are consistent consumers of magazines and keep up with the issues from different rock magazines. I chose to use a Kerrang! magazine and a NME magazine as they both cover my sub genre of alternative rock. Tia and Amal both gave me loads of information to keep in mine when designing my magazine!
"..Are kinda done in a hand writing type way, so I think its a bit more personal touch and its a little more appealing, its not just the same thing, its not repetitive" ~ Tia

I also noticed that mise en sense is very important as in the focus group Amal points out the artists in the front cover having piercings and tattoo's gives away that the magazine is to do with rock.~ "through the images of the bands makes it more obvious"

whats significant about the contents page is the categories that are given down the side of the magazine, which divides up the different sections of the magazine with both Tia and Amal found convenient - another features to keep in mind for my magazine. "Its very clear where every thing is" ~ Amal

"they go with the traditional black and red, it fits the band more, it fits the article more" ~ Tia, here she makes a very good point from the Karrang! magazine where she points out a variation in colour so it fits in with the genre of the band a bit more.

For my double page spread I've decided to stick with doing an interview for an upcoming articles, when asking on options of if its nice to read about interviews i got this response: "i think interviews are always the best" "I think its more exciting for the fans especially" ~ Tia

"With one image, its good, but its kind of boring" ~ Amal

"poster are really good... its a nice little treat for yourself!" ~ Tia

"its like sometimes I purely buy the magazine because, one of my favourite bands are in the posters" ~ Amal