I used a webpage called Survey Monkey, to get results from different people that is able to access it. It is used for making surveys online, this will allow other people to do the surveys online and then send me information to me, so I can use that information and use it know what to do for my pre-production. For example, if I was thinking to do a magazine, I will need to know what type of magazine applies to certain ages, and why they buy magazines and what they do to impact the reader. Plus, because it is a survey, I can choose to either have it multiple choice or ask open questions to them. This is a very big advantage to me, because if it was to have just open questions the answers will be a different variety and too much information for me to do for my pre-production. But because I will use multiple choice question, they are limited to around 3-5 answers and it will be a lot easier for me to use this information to improve my pre-production. This website is also very useful for me, because if I was to want to see the results of the surveys, it is very easy to see them, plus it puts the multiple choice answers into graphs which will be much quicker to see the average or the most popular answer of the questions. So it would show the ages of the people who answered the questions and what theme of magazines they liked, how much they would buy them, how much they will spend. This gave me an excellent idea of what to do for my magazine, how I will aim it at, what price I will charge the customers to buy it and what it will contain (information, and what appeals to those answers of the questionnaire).
I also did around 4 texture analysis on other existing magazine covers that are very popular and lot of people like to read. This gave me a wider range of understanding what to do for producing a popular/successful magazine. I had to label and explain every little detail of the magazine, if I hadn't of done this then I might miss a vital part of the magazine for when I produce it. I now know what to do for different magazine covers, and tell who they are aimed at comparing the front covers of the magazines. If the front cover had guns or a lot of violence, it would genially be aimed at 16-30 year old males that enjoy to watch action films. But if another magazine was to have Cheryl Cole wearing a very glamorous dress, advertising new perfume, this will almost defiantly be aimed at young to middle aged women who wish to look like Cheryl Cole, or are a big fan of her. I learnt about what the main heading should look like depending on the magazine, and it is very important to show the main image and make it the most important feature of the magazine. The main image is the most important bit of the magazine cover because it shows what the magazine is going to be about, this is what I learnt about texture analysis.
