Feedback From Target Audience

In class we printed off our draft front cover, contents page and double page spread. This was important to do as we needed to all see our drafts as hard printed copies, I think even from printing it out I could already tell what I seriously needed to change.

From here as a class we all walked around and gave feedback to each persons work on things that were good or that needed changing, I made sure that I took a picture of the feedback that I got from my peers and thought it was essential to put up on my blog!

 

 

This is my draft FRONT COVER

The feedback that I got from this image was.

These are the changes I need to make to my front cover:

1. The background needs to be edited, as the pink doesn't look right
2. Her head has been cut off at the top, therefore I need to make the picture longer
3. I need to use a much smaller barcode, as this one takes up most of the page.
4. As well as the barcode I need to make the icons much smaller.
5. I need to make the image much clearer.
6. The "Ireland's biggest music magazine needs to be a different colour.

 

For my CONTENTS PAGE

 

Unfortunately I couldn't print out my contents page in colour, which meant that it didn't look as well as It could, that being said I did manage to get some good feedback from my target audience.

1.  More images need to be put on the page
2. There is too much space around the page (lots of white) therefore I need to put in some extra things to fill up the page.
3. Different fonts should be used throughout the page
4. More colour needs to be added-  colour should be added to the background
5. I need to add more images of different people and different things to the page

 

For my DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

 

As for my Double page spread, I knew that it was still In a major working progress, therefore it didn't look as good as I had wished for the first draft, my audience feedback said:

(what I'm going to change)

1. There is too much white space around the main image
2. More text to be put on the page
3. More colour and Images and different font to be used
4. Drop caps to be added

 

 

 

 

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

I have been deciding on how I can make my double page the best and most professional it can be. I looked over the original dps flat-plan and decided I would draw it out again with all of my new ideas this has helped me with my contents page as  can see exactly what will fit and look right.

 

 

I have also changed the "50 FACTS" to 20, my reason for this was that having 50 took the full two pages and I wanted to have a question and answer interview piece on the article which I think would not only make it more interesting but not as long to read

 

 

 

It is clear that the DPS was just looking very bland and extremely boring, therefore I am working on the new context that will go into box 1 and 2.

My inspiration for this is coming from a range of different magazines that are not only "Q" magazine- the magazine I have been mostly focusing my inspiration from, but I wanted to look at a wider range of magazines.

 

 

Inspiration for Contents Page

For my contents page I have already made small changes, but I feel as if I need to really make it the highest mark band so I decided that I would look at different magazines with the same colour scheme as the one I am using, to see if I could make any drastic changes.

 

The first second and third one is from the music magazine "Q" this uses the same colour scheme as I am using, I plan to make changes to the writing I have used on my contents page to give it a more sophisticated look.

 

 

 

 

 

 This particular magazine I found on google was another students, I like the way this is laid out and I will hopefully make mine look something similar.

 

 

 

 

CONSTRUCTION WORK, FRONT COVER, CONTENTS PAGE, DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

For my first draft of my contents page, I needed to redo my flatplan on a A4 page so I could have a better Idea as to what space I was working with, I went onto my blog and found my original flatplan for my music magazine and from there drew it out again,

This is the quick sketch I drew to prepare me for the digital document on "INDESIGN"



Changing My front cover image

As my front cover image that i want to use was in a landscape image it wouldn't fit properly on an A4 page.

I have had to make some drastic changes to my over all image, for example; strectching the image out to be longer, the other changes that i want to make to this image is changing the masthead from the side to the top of the page.

Front Cover Draft 2

 

For my second front cover image (draft) I really wanted this image to contrast with my first draft, as that was bright and colourful with the red lipstick, I wanted this to have the black and white element with the lipstick still remaining red.

 

 

This was the image with being touched up with a black and white filter and a saturation to make the red lipstick remain red.

 

 I found that I had to play around a lot with the different themes to get the perfect black and white filter as most of them really darkened the face to give an almost dark grey dead look,

 

Although I chose for this image to be black and white, I still wanted my model to look bright and fresh, I fell like this image below has what I wanted.

 

The next thing I played with was to try to accomplish a black background as opposed to plain white, as I had in my first draft front cover, I found my using the "Bucket" effect and black 

 

Front Page Draft 1

For the first draft of my front cover I decided to keep the picture that was quite plain and simple, this was one of the pictures that seemed mostly popular compared to my other pictures, therefore I chose it to be my first draft front cover.

 

With the use of Photoshop on this image I have been able to create an eye-catching image that was originally a very plain and quite bland image.

 

I used this picture to edit on Photoshop as I felt it was most helpful with this particular image. 

that being said, I feel as though this image was still very plain I could have made a lot more effort with the text surrounding and as well as the icons such as the "twitter, Facebook, Instagram" app icon, the barcode issue number and the date, therefore I decided to spend more time on my second front cover and add these into it.

 

The changes that have been made image to image are very slight and mostly unnoticeable, for instance, the difference between these two images are, I made the saturation higher and the girls hair seems more highlighted. as well as this I added some text around the image.

 

 

The changes between these two images are quite noticeable as the bottom one is the original image with just flash, it is clear that in this image the girls red lipstick and light brown hair isn't bright and really doesn't make a statement, therefore I decided that I wanted to make this image as bright as possible without making the face look to pale against the red lipstick and hair colour.

Using Photoshop

For my first and second draft of my front cover i decided to use "PHOTOSHOP" instead of "INDESIGN" my reasons for this was simply because I preferred photoshop as it seemed to give more options for my colour scheme as well as text, i tried to work with indesign and did my first draft on it, but later descovered that i wanted to redo it on photoshop to see if it would possibly turn out better, i did so and was much happier with the result, however i will definitely use indesign for the contents and double page spread.

 

 

Music Magazine Research- Q Magazine Front Covers

Q Magazine Front Covers

 

I wanted to see the typical house- style of Q magazine, I decided that It would be good to make a collage of Q magazines front covers together to get a good idea of what I should be talking about when I come to analyse the latest addition of Q.

 

 

Music Magazine Research- My Inspiration

For my first piece of different ideas, I thought that it would be good to create a prezi presentation as I could show all my ideas and pictures in one form of a media platform, in this presentation I have things such as pictures that I think I could take inspiration from, I also have ideas where I could take these pictures, I still have a lot to think about for my magazine, like what I will call my "artist" what her "story" will be e.g. what songs she sings, where she is from, her famous friends etc.

I also still need to think about what I a going to call my magazine, font, layout and what cover lines and graphics I will use.

Also the other people that I will feature in my magazine, I will use this post as my ideas post, that I will go back to and update with new things that I want to put in my magazine

https://prezi.com/vceoyrff7mm7/inspiration-for-my-music-magazine/