Tuesday 9 February 2016

Feedback and evaluation from magazine draft


Magazine cover 

Most people like my cover draft and felt like the image worked well alongside the colour scheme. However, a lot of people felt like I should re position the barcode, issue number and date as they are placed quite randomly. I agree with this and in my next attempt I am going to change it so that the barcode, issue number and date are placed out of the way and don't obstruct the main image. I also need to add the price next to them as I forgot to last time. My target audience also suggested that I make the text at the bottom of the page smaller so that it looks more sophisticated and professional as well as changing the font I used on the masthead so that it's more bold and fills the space. 

Contents page 

Whilst my target audience liked my contents page, they felt as though there was a lot of information on there which made it look really cluttered and overbearing. When I recreate this, I will look through what I have written and choose which articles I am going to use so that the page looks less cluttered and full.

Double page spread 

My target audience like the fact that my colour scheme was consistent even though it mainly uses black and white. They liked how I used the colour red throughout to highlight and make links to each page. According to them my article was very well written. My image was slightly off center which made it look slightly odd as the image takes up the entire page. Another audience member suggested that I should maybe retake the photo as they felt that the branch that frames my artists face was obstructing him. I order to improve, I will make it so that the image is more central to the page and i might try taking more test shots to see if I can recreate the image without the branch obstructing my artists face. 


Overall, my audience felt like my chosen genre was shown through the images I used and the consistency of my chosen colour scheme throughout. To improve, I need to make sure that I include things like correct barcode placement and the magazines price and make sure that the text fills the space without looking untidy and cluttered. I also need to revisit my images and see if i can make them more central and clear. 

Thursday 4 February 2016