Audience feedback

I showed my music magazine ‘Play.’ To my friends who are in the band on the image on the front cover. As the primary target audience I thought that their opinion would be valid. I asked them for positive and negative criticism. They really liked the front cover and they said ‘it looks really authentic of a real music magazine; I would definitely buy that…’ They liked the colour scheme and the sell lines and the overall genre and ideas I put into it. They did however say that the contents page didn’t quite fit to the same professional level of the front cover, which I agree on. I found it hard to develop the contents page and it certainly shows, but I am happy with the final result. As these are my friends and the main feature of the magazine they could be biased towards it.

I then showed it to the director of MOJO music magazine Mark Wagstaff, who came in to talk to us about all our music magazine and to inform us about his input to MOJO, this was a very useful insight. He said that he liked my colour scheme and coherency throughout my piece of the theme of indie and colours. He said it looked professional through the use of only three main colours in my colour scheme and the sell lines on my front cover. He then said that I thought about my target audience well, and that I have addressed it in my magazine. He then followed on to say that my feature needed more work on the interview questions to give the reader exactly what they want to hear from the band. But I used lots more aspects in my writing that would want the reader to read on and he said my flow of writing was very professional. He encouraged I put more depth (shadowing and blocking) to my font to make it stand out and change my contents page to correspond with my front cover (that is when I began my new contents page, which he looked at at the end of the lesson).

I was pleased with his input and the constructive criticism helps me to develop my ideas and makes me think more about what my audience want and how I can cater to everyone.