24. Main Task: Post Production Feedback

For my post production feedback, I sent my music magazine to my target audience from both BBM and Facebook, I did this as these are they ways my target audiences socialises. The images below are some print screens of what my audiences have send about my music magazine. I will give a brief overall of what they said about each piece.

Front Cover:

Strengths:
They really liked the quality of my images and that I had a very neat layout, they also said how my front cover had a very good colour scheme as it suited the genre and kept the house-style throughout all three pieces. The fact that I designed the 'play button' my self they think I did a very good job by creating this. Another strength they found in my front cover was that my cover-line was neatly presented as I included all my front cover conventions too.

Weaknesses:
There was not a lot of weaknesses for my front cover as most of them said it looked great, however, one person pointed out how my main cover line was not aligned to the right hand side probably and this made it look odd.

Contents Page:
Strengths:
They found my contents page was also a very strong piece. They said how they liked the layout of my contents page and it was just perfect it did not look too empty or too busy. They liked how I kept the house-style through both my front cover and contents page. They said it has interesting qualities and everything is lined up neatly.

Weaknesses:
There was not much weaknesses for my contents page either, but one person said that I could used more bright colours to make it eye catching for example instead of using the yellow/green colour for my cover-lines I could of used red.

Double Page Spread
Strengths:
The strengths for my double page spread was similar to my front cover. They like the quality of the images, and easy to read. They think that the quote I used look very good and eye-catching, the title used was very good as it suited the genre and the colour scheme shows that there was consistency throughout all three pieces and finally the paragraphs looked neat and well presented.

Weaknesses:
I think my double page spread had the most weaknesses out of all my three pieces. My target audience said that the drop capital was not presented properly as it look odd in the paragraph, they also thought that the three images used at the bottom of my double page was too small and the article was quite boring they think the topic should of been something more interesting.

Evaluation:
If I had a chance to re-do my music magazine, I would take my audience advice in what they liked and disliked and change it to how they feel looks better. I think this time I would use more bright colours, and make my main subject use different props such as wearing a snap back (cap). I really liked the layout of my front cover so I'll probably keep the same layout but use different fonts to make it stand out more. Use a different layout for my contents page as I think my one looked very dull. In my double page I would like the change the background of my main subject to make it more eye-catching to my target audience and make my article more interesting for example I could do 'quick quiz' or use interesting facts.