Audience Feedback

As my magazine is aimed at an audience aged between teens to early adults, I asked around the sixth form for people's views and critisisms on my magazine. Some provided a good amount of detail about it and gave me some points to think about whilst others provided more general comments, though still useful.

1. Really good images and front page, looks really good! Maybe change the background for the final two pages, it’s a bit plain.

2. Really, really great magazine – good for all genres. The language of the interview is really good and natural sounding. Good artists close-ups.

3. Eye-catching title. Looks like a real magazine, nice and aesthetically pleasing layout. Font is hard to read in places.

4. “Free CD” hard to read, professional, too much writing on double page, could do with bigger pictures. I like the title.

5. Very good professional images, some writing hard to read, would expect writing to be ‘neater’ (structure) – The paragraphs to be straight at the sides, not varying in length.


6. Really nice writing, especially on the double page. DON’T like the ‘THE’ on the front page- makes it look off. Red pull quote (double page) is really interesting and stands out. Writing looks professional- maybe for main article you could change it to make it edgier/funkier. The pictures are really good/professional- lots of different angles and the photo montage on double page looks really effective as the pictures go well together and you’ve also places them together really well too (this could be bigger though, it looks a tad small). The coverlines are really good but you could make them snappier- use rhetorical questions etc. The writing on contents page is a bit boring but page numbers and contents title look good- 1920s – could have kept them theme throughout. Front page is great, very effective. Great colour scheme. Isn’t really a house style, but photos are a similar style and it looks ok without being very obvious.

7. Good, consistent style all the way through. The ‘Free CD Inside’ could stand out more, but overall great!

8. Genre: Folk? Alternative/rock? I like the logo ‘The Edge’ and the fonts that are used as well as the tagline at the top. I like the clear crisp image of Jack and there is a good amount of info on the cover. Some parts seem squished- maybe it isn’t long enough? Font colour looks good as it matches his jumper and logo. It is nice and spaced out.
Contents is clear and writing is easy to read (good font) Clear, distinct picture and it’s good that you have the logo inside as well. Maybe need a bit of text jargon at the bottom? Eg copyright and fine print.
DPS: Good font! Good that you have pulled out quotes. Nice background for easy to read text. Good pictures. Font easy to read. Different colours are good.