Feedback

I have asked my friend Emily to give me feedback on my magazine cover, contents page and double page spread. Emily is a 17 year old girl who is also taking a level media studies. I have told her that the magazine is a pop magazine with a fashion house style. I have told her that my target audience is teenage girls. These are the pictures I sent Emily of my magazine cover, contents page and double page spread, she sent me feedback via email.

Magazine Cover

Magazine Contents Page

Magazine Double Page Spread

This is the email I sent to Emily containing the three images of my magazine cover, contents page and double page spread as shown above asking her to give me feedback on them.

This is the reply email Emily sent with her feedback of my magazine

"I like the colours you have used for the cover as they are suitable for a pop magazine, the name pop also shows that it is a pop magazine. The main image and colours you have used are suitable for your target audience. There is a good use of magazine conventions on your cover e.g. your masthead at the top of the page, the barcode at the bottom of the page, cover lines, date, issue number and price that show that this is a magazine. To improve your cover I think you should move the Eden Dee cover title to another part of the page to set it apart from the other cover lines, change the size, colour and font of Eden Dee to make it stand out and to show who the girl on the cover is. The main image looks squashed so stretch it out a bit to make it bigger and so that you can use up more of the page. The barcode in the bottom corner is too big.

I like that you have used the a similar colour scheme on the contents page to the cover. Your contents page is suitable for your genre and target audience due to the colours and article titles. You should add more pictures because contents pages normally use lots of pictures but you have only used one big one, maybe take out the big pictures and replace it with a few smaller ones. You need to have pictures of other people because if the reader doesn't like this person they may not want to read your magazine as she is on the cover and contents. I like the picture of the magazine cover but it is too big, make it smaller and maybe move it to another place on the page so that you can move the article titles and page numbers up. You should put in the page number somewhere on the page as this is still one of the magazine pages.

I like the pictures and background on your double page spread but I think there is too much text, maybe take some of it out so that you are able to use the space better. The text spacing is also off, you should add more paragraphs to break the text up a bit.

I like what you have done by following magazine conventions and making your magazine suitable for the audience and genre but making improvements will make your magazine better.

I hope this helps!

Emily x"

I am going to use this feedback to help me to improve my magazine.