Rough Cut Feedback

Blog 36:
Yesterday I received my feedback for my magazine rough cut, from my target audience. I got a lot of feedback, both positives and areas to improve. So here is the feedback I got:

Things my target audience liked about my Front Cover:

• Polaroid style
• Red and black colour scheme (bold colours)
• Good Layout
• Title stands out
• Appropriate photo style
• Play on words
• Freebies 

Things to improve on my Front Cover:

• Typo -(26t not 26th)
• Too much white
• Better cropping 
• Blurry image
• Fonts vary too often

Things my target audience liked about my Contents Page:

• Evenly spaced
• Polaroid style 
• Use of the word 'Fix'
• Photos suit the genre
• Not cluttered

Things to improve on my Contents Page:

• Too much white
• Alignment to be arranged better
• No page numbers 
• Fonts vary too often
• Add a blurb/editors note

Things my target audience liked about my DPS:

• Colour scheme appropriate for genre
• Photo is really good/professional 
• Looks genuine
• Polaroid style
• Logo in the back
• Quotations 

Things to improve on my DPS:

• Inconsistent spacing of the blue writing 
• Make quotes bigger
• Introductory paragraph to be moved down slightly 
• Top Polaroid looks out of place