Survey Report

For this unit we created a survey on our own specific themes and then allowed my classmates to fill out the survey. The information that i have received from this will be used as inspiration for my own magazine front cover design. The theme that I chose to cover is video games as being a writer in the video games industry is something that I would love to do for a career one day.

I asked a total of 10 questions in my survey. I attempted to cover both the print side of video game journalism (magazines) and the digital side too (blog sites and websites) this is so that i had a good idea on how important each form was. I also asked questions about there own personal video game experiences so i could find out what sort of video games should be showcased mainly whether its hardcore games or more mainstream games to fit the casual audience. 

The results

The first thing i wanted to find out was how big people are into video games and out of the information i got i found out that the majority was just casual gamers playing now and again while a couple of people who filled out my survey was massively into video games and another was in the middle loves playing video games but not too seriously. This was a expected result as we are in a busy time in our lives so finding time to play video games is getting harder to do. Other information I found out was that a majority was into action games like call of duty but there was still a audience for role playing games and i also found out that people are still into retro games just as much as modern games. 

The main information I wanted to find out though was how many people actually read magazines these days and from the feedback I got back it suggests that a large amount of young people don't read magazines with only one person saying that they do read them. This again is expected because we are moving into a digital age so print information is beginning to become a less used form of information. I found that in fact some people occasionally check out gaming websites for reviews and news instead of magazines. The benefits to this is that websites are regularly updated and most importantly they are free to use. A large amount of users check out mainstream video game sites such as IGN that also covers movies and comic books. 

So in conclusion the results have allowed me to conclude that gaming magazines and magazines as a general form of information is not as widely used as it once was. Gaming websites are now the main place to go for information and reviews it offers the same stuff but digitally and for free. This will greatly help me when it comes to working on my final magazine design I know what themes I should cover and what video games I should include. I also through the feedback will find a way to incorporate a gaming website into my magazine design.