Front Cover
From my audience feedback, I have been praised for the layout
of my front cover and how my style model can be easily picked out and identified.
The criticism that I received was mainly about the bottom section on my front
cover and how it seems empty and the bar code seems to be of an unnecessarily
large size to fill in the gaps. They also advised me to have a small circle of
some sort in the top right beside the models head to make it look more
professional as it is a key convention which I seemed to have missed out when
creating my rough cuts. My peers gave me an idea of using a different shape as
a bullet point underneath the ‘interviews!’ sub heading as it apparently seemed
too much like what you would find in a “gossip mag” rather than a rock/metal magazine.
The main image was criticised for being too far over to the left and part of
the models face is being covered with the text. Despite these few changes
needing to be made, the feedback I got was mostly positive and they
particularly liked the model used with the Rock star image I have set used with
the tattoos and sunglasses.
Contents Page
From my audience feedback, I have been praised for the layout
of my front cover and how my style model can be easily picked out and identified.
The criticism that I received was mainly about the bottom section on my front
cover and how it seems empty and the barcode seems to be of an unnecessarily
large size to fill in the gaps. They also advised me to have a small circle of
some sort in the top right beside the models head to make it look more
professional as it is a key convention which I seemed to have missed out when
creating my rough cuts. My peers gave me an idea of using a different shape as
a bullet point underneath the ‘interviews!’ sub heading as it apparently seemed
too much like what you would find in a “gossip mag” rather than a rock/metal magazine.
The main image was criticized for being too far over to the left and part of
the models face is being covered with the text. Despite these few changes
needing to be made, the feedback I got was mostly positive and they
particularly liked the model used with the Rock star image I have set used with
the tattoos and sunglasses.
Double Page Spread
Out of all 3
which were analysed by my peers, my double page spread was seen as the weakest
one and judging by the feedback I received, there are some drastic changes to
be made. For example the images used were too similar to the ones used on my
front cover and contents page, for my final draft I will have to choose a
different outfit for my model to wear to give it some originality. The fact
that the fonts used were all too similar was another point given by my peers
and that to make it fully successful, I was in need of some different fonts to
give my magazine some variation and make it different. Another point made was
that the background was far too plain and that I needed something more urban to
give it a more rock feel to it. The article length was also one of the issues
that was raised as it was seen to be far too short and that I needed some more I
depth meaningful questions and also some more interesting and article style
answers. The red made the questions un-readable so that will have to be changed
as you don’t want the reader to be struggling to read your magazine after all… I
will be using a more creative image in my magazine as I feel that it is far too
clichéd and something ‘different’ and ‘out of the norm’ is most definitely
needed to make my product successful and a joy to read.
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