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feedback evaluation

I received feedback that I have correctly targeted my audience which is 18-25 year old R&B fans. My audience were who i targeted because it attracted my description of my target audience. Also they are gossip and fashion fans. Audience said i showed this by including R&B style such as hoodies and I clearly addressed R&B fans by writing the genre on the front page. They noticed that I included R&B gossip also which attracts fans, I was also told that since they are interested in R&B the teasers I used would cause them to buy the magazine if it was a real product because I used interesting descriptions which don't reveal the whole story.
This helped me because I wasn't sure if I had targeted my audience correctly and wanted some opinions of others.
Also from this feedback I realized there will be hardly anything I will have to change to represent the targeted audience.

The social groups I targeted were R&B fans, my audience say that although it is clear I have portrayed them in a positive way because they look happy (smiling and jumping) in the DPS. Different ethnic groups are in my magazine to represent a multicultural society, this is a positive way of representing social groups since it shows all races can enjoy the genre. The magazine is targeted at working class and middle class groups since upper class would probably not be interested in this genre because they prefer something more traditional.
This shows working class and middle class in a positive way since they don't have to be rich or upper class to be targeted by magazine editors. I also targeted gossip fans,audience said this attracts audience but portrays them in a negative way since they are entertained by someone being exposed and possibly humiliated which takes away the celebrities privacy.
The audience pointed out that gossip fans are portrayed in a negative way, this made me remove some articles which celebrities wouldn't want to be exposed in the media.
After all this is mainly a music magazine and revealing peopl'es lives for entertainment shows weakness of entertaining audience in a different way


DPS
The audience like the black and white picture along with the black background and white caption, they think it looks professional. I was told the journalism was creative and they liked how I made up ‘steps’ for entering the competition along with a unique code. They don’t like that the font is a little hard to read on a black background because it is bold, also they don’t like that the title at the top isn’t spaced out evenly however they noticed that I split it in half so that if the magazine pages were to be stapled together the middle of the page wouldn’t be easy to see. Also they said the background image can be made smaller since it isn’t that important in the article but the writing could be made bigger.
Their crticism about my font has made me want to change it however if i make it bigger the text won't fit into the pages and I think it isn't hard to read.
I have listened to their second criticism and I slightly faded the background more and made it smaller.

CONTENTS
My audience said they didn’t like that the editors note hardly fit in the box and made it look slightly messy, also they didn’t like that one of the black lines I used to separate the subtitles aren’t placed straight, this is because indesign wouldn’t allow me to rotate it at an exact angle. They said they like that I made the title blurry which looks effective because I wanted it to be seen but it isn’t the most important title on the page so I blurred it out. Also they liked how I used different colours to highlight important words such as ‘4 years’ and the fact that I used appropriate pictures for the articles (the teaser ‘rose tells us her story’ shows that this is an exclusive story because the model has her finger on her lips as if to say it’s a secret). They liked the main contents image I used and said it looked very attractive, plus it was slightly blurred to not focus all attention on that image, however they said some the images could be edited to appear more brighter.
I was planning to change the editors note however it is difficult to rearrange everything to make more space for the editors note, the text wouln't be as good if some was deleted.
One of the black lines looks slightly tilted but there is no way to fix because it wont rotate to be exactly horizontal.
Their comment about my contents page helped me because I didn't realize the smaller images could be better quality.


FRONT COVER
They liked how I Edited the front cover image of the model to make it more bright and also how how I placed a tie on her head of which the color slightly matches the models hair. They said the teasers on the left side looked very professional because the name Jane west is enlarged in a different color, however they said the writing on the right side can be improved because it looks too bold. they like the choice of fonts but said the masthead could have been bigger, I tried my best to fix this by removing capital letters from the masthead but it still wouldn't completely fit into the page.
I decided to change the writing on the right side cover, also i made the masthead bigger because i realized its nearly the same size as one of the teasers.
After trying different fonts for my masthead and using the 'sclae' transformation i realized i can edit my text to fit in the page even if the text is big.

Compared to the preliminary front cover my new front cover has a much better image. The shot is focused on model while model looks directly at camera and smiles, without unnecessary parts of the background as in the first front cover. Also in the new front cover it shows i have learnt to create space and align the text while giving equal space on both sides. I have used more professional images and all my own. I received feedback that there were too many fonts in the first front cover and the writing was scattered all around the page. In the first contents i was told the layout was good but obviously it lacked detail and looked rather unprofessional. In the actual contents I was told it was clear I improved in using in design (adding colour to text, blurring in text for effect) I used a variety of images, fonts and added different colours. Also I added images of black lines to separate teasers which makes it look more organized.

Choice of magazine cover

I was going to use this picture in my front cover but decided not to because firstly the model isn't looking at the audience and isnt smiling.
Some magazines don't have models smiling but for this issue i prefered to have the model creating a good impression of the magazine.
Also I used a photo with a tie that matches the models hair and makes it stand out more but this photo seems too plain.

audience feedback

-Have I correctly targeted my audience? (16-30 year old, both gender, interested in R&B also those who want to become artists)
-How are particular social groups represented- (fans of R&B) Are these representations positive, negative, mixed?
-Which elements of the magazine do you like?
-What could be improved?
-What has improved looking at my college magazine?

Images I didn't use

Images i used

music magazine

Construction of the magazine

After taking the photographs and using yellow writing i realized yellow is no good at all because its hardly visible, i decided to use a dark orange instead because it suits blue and can be clearly seen.
I also decided to use a tiny bit of red on the front cover to highlight the offer.
In the DPS i used white and red and although i didnt originally plan to do this i changed my mind because I ahd to use a bright colour to make the 'steps of entering the competition' stand out and the other colours didnt look as bright.