Audience Focus Group

The following students attend Southend High School for Girls' sixth form... 

Ellie Broome

Age: 16

Studying: 

• Sociology
• Product Design
• Media Studies
• Business Studies 

Favourite Lesson: 

• Product Design

Best Things about Sixth Form: 

• More freedom

Media Consumption:

• TV - an hour a week
• iPod - couple of hours a day
• Computer - an hour a day (on average)
• Cinema - once a month
• Film - couple a month

Favourite Film: 

• Disney's Aladdin

Hobbies: 

• Shopping
• Eating out

Magazines Read: 

• Glamour
•  Elle
• Teen Vogue

What do you like about the covers of these: 

• Celebrities 
• Fashion

Bob Binnendijk

Age: 16

Studying: 

• Spanish
• Business Studies
• Politics
• Phycology
  

Favourite Lesson: 

• Phycology

Best Things about Sixth Form: 

• Gets to focus on the subjects he is interested in

Media Consumption:

• TV - an hour a day
• iPod - several hours a day
• Computer - an hour and a half a day
• Cinema - once every two months
• Film - once a week

Favourite Film: 

• The Hangover

Hobbies: 

• Tennis
• Sailing
• Windsurfing
• Skiing
• Football
  

Magazines Read: 

• Yachts and Yachting

What do you like about the covers of these: 

• Good image/s
• Contains something of interest

Paddi Horncastle

Age: 16

Studying: 

• Politics
• English Lit
• French
• Media
  

Favourite Lesson: 

• Politics

Best Things about Sixth Form: 

• More freedom

Media Consumption:

• TV - an hour a day
• iPod - several hours a day
• Computer - two hours a day
• Cinema - once a month
• Film - once every two weeks

Favourite Film: 

• Sabrina Fair

Hobbies: 

• Shopping
• Socialising

Magazines Read: 

• Vogue
• Heat

What do you like about the covers of these: 

• Aesthetically pleasing

First flat plan of student magazine

At this point I had some ideas about what I wanted to contain on my magazine cover, however, I decided to refer to my focus group in order to see what their opinions of sixth form life were.

Student Magazine Analysis 3

Student Magazine Analysis 2

Student Magazine Analysis 1