First Draft Feedback

Yesterday I asked my target audience to have a look at my first draft of my music magazine. The first question that I asked was. What do you like about my project at this stage?

These are some of the things that people said:

• Organised layout of the front cover
• Layout and colour scheme on contents
• Detail on barcode- issue number and price
• Clear colour scheme throughout
• All pictures have captions
• Nice simple font cover
• Good picture on front cover
• Good questions for article
• Good quality photo on from cover
• Creative features

The next question that was asked was. What could be improved?

Here is what was said:

• Model looks too young
• Better props in photos on contents page
• Needs better colour scheme case the colours are dull
• Fairly young artist on the front cover
• Barcode could be a bit smaller
• Magazine name
• Very simple font, maybe using more unrecognised fonts
• Very boring colour scheme
• Change model
• Only using one image on double page spread
• Text
• Maybe change model as very young
• Not sure on genre
• Use more artist and have more diversity
• Get article checked as many errors
• Need to use more models
• Don’t repeat the questions in answers
• Make the colour scheme and models clothing match
• Use more adventurous fonts and colour scheme
• Model too young for genre
• Only used one model need more
• Change layout on double page spread
• Fake instruments not good
• Bad picture captions
• Change model too young
•  Photos must be better variation
• Colour scheme too cute
• Main article title too cheesy
• Not sure on genre, maybe meant to be like Q. Not sure if so needs to be more mature 

After reading the feedback the things that I feel need to be changed are:

• The layout needs to be more like my target genre which is a magazine like Q
• Make my fonts more interesting and not as simple
• Change my model
• Change the colour scheme
• Need to redo my article, titles and captions
• Have variation in photos