Magazine Feedback

This is the feedback that I received on my magazine

I received a lot of positive feedback about my magazine, including comments about the image use and the colour use. There were some wishes, such as add more text to the front cover which I will aim to do.

Website Feedback

This is the feedback I received on my website

I will now use this feedback to make enhancements to my magazine and make it the best I can. There was a lot of positive feedback about the layout and colours, some of the suggestions that I got were to add gig footage so I will add footage of my friends band that I recorded back in december. I also may try adding some different fonts to the website.

Todays Progress

I stated the new layout for my magazine cover by adding a top banner to attract the audiences attention as it offers free posters inside the magazine. The main story is at the right side of the page and I will position this once I have added the main image however for now this is the design I have came up with.

My contents page uses the colours from the front cover and then will have images on the right side of the page because it will make it more reader friendly.

Update

This is my contents page up to date, I have ordered the pages and have filled in the stories, the boxes on the right side of the page are for images, the top one is larger because that will be related to the story from the cover that is the main focus of the magazine. The other images will be of the posters included and a selection of the bands from the contents.

I have added black boxes behind the main headings of each section as it makes them stand out and the black is relative to the genre, it also ties in with the black on the front cover. I have also kept these headings in the font 'CF Punk Forever' but changed the font of the stories to 'Chaparral Pro' as it is easier to read for the audience. 

Comparisons - Double page spread

This is a double page spread from Mojo

I liked the image as it showed Neil Young in action, live. I tried to create a similar image in the sense that i wanted to show my artists in action, I did this using my double page spread.

It is similar in the sense that it shows a guitarist playing, however as the band I am using is a small band I chose to take images in their home studio however I feel this was still a good creative decision, as lighting in some of their gigs was not effective for a magazine image. I feel that this will be more professional overall and will be more appealing to my target audience.

Colour Update

I have recently updated my colour scheme on my magazine from feedback I received on my last draft, I reviewed my colours and have chosen the above colours for my magazine. The red and black are still representative of the rock genre however I have added the white and light grey as it brightens the magazine and makes it stand out against others.

Front cover update

This is the updated version of my front cover, since my last update I have experimented with the colour scheme for the cover after I looked at my inspirational magazines, one of my main reasons for changing the colours was looking at NME and seeing how they use colour in their magazines. 

I have added a third colour as I feel it makes the magazine look more professional, I also think that using brighter colours as well as the red and black which relate to the rock genre was a good decision as it makes the magazine stand out more and it looks more appealing to a wider secondary target audience as well as the main target audience that the red and black as well as the font will attract.

I will replace the main image as it is slightly blurred and I want to use the highest quality images possible for this production.

Double page spread update

This is my double page spread so far, the main image shows on of the band members recording guitar tracks in a studio. I gave the image a blurred/ grained effect to give it a vintage look, I feel like this was a good creative decision as it gives the page character.

The text will be on backgrounds that I have lowered the opacity setting so that you can see the image behind the text but also you can still read the text with ease.

I feel the colours on the page fit well together as when I took the image the member was wearing a red shirt similar to the house style colour I had used, this was by request as it ties in the rest of the page.

I have used the same font on this page as the cover and contents page, I may change the font used on this page to the bands personal font that they use as it will relate the article to their album.

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