Focus Group Questions

Front cover
 What size font wold they like on their front cover?
 How many artists would you like on the front cover?
 What kind of camera shot and camera angle you want for your pictures?
 What is the difference between the magazines, and how one is better?
 Which kind of hip-hop artist you like on the front cover? Young, old, what gender? Men, women
 How is the layout on the magazine and what catches your eyes?
 What kind of clothing do you the artist to be wearing on the front cover (how should they be dressed)?
 Where would you like the artist’s picture to be on the front cover?
 What kind of accessories/props would like the artist to be wearing? E.g. earrings, gold chains, ring.
 Do you want the artist to have tattoos and should they be visible?
 How many colours should I use and what should the main colours be?
 How is one magazine more appealing than the other?
 Where do you expect the barcode to be?
 Do you want the price to be clearly shown and should it be next to the barcode?
 Should the publisher’s logo be next to the barcode?
 Does the background need to be plain and white or should it have different colours?



Content page
 How many pages do you expect the in a magazine? In weekly and monthly
 How many pictures do you expect and of what kind? Pics from concerts, etc.
 Do you prefer having a blurb next to the page number and page title?
 Would you have an editor’s letter on the content page?
 How many fonts would you have, and the font sizes?
 How many colours would you use? Does white and black need to be included?
 Do you want the magazines logo on the content page?
 Next to the page number do you want the magazine’s web address?
 Do you want the date of the magazine on the content page and where would you expect it to be?
 What type of background do you expect?
 Where should the writing be placed and of what font size?
 What do you think of the way, they have written the word ‘content page’?
 Do you want the preview of the next magazine at the bottom of the page?

Double page spread
 How many pictures do you want on it?
 What kind of articles would you expect? E.g. life story, their achievements, what they want in the future, about their music?
 How big do you expect the pictures to be?
 Would you have a quote from the artist next to his/hers picture?