Feedback

I presented my rough cut copy of my magazine in front of my class and they each wrote out good points that they liked about my magazine as well as improvements I could make. The image above shows an example of one the slips they filled out.

Good points for front cover

• Good title, professional image
• Very good front cover, can’t find any bad points
• Mint image, title and colour schemes
• Good title and photo
• I like the photo and the magazine name, font and colour
• The image fits in well with the genre
• Good picture and font of title
• Font title is good
• Nice title and also great band name
• Cool title
• Love the title and the way you have chosen the clothing carefully to fit in with rock theme.
• Good attitude presented in photo, looks professional
• Title looks great, strong main image

Improvements for front cover

• Too much going on
• Capitals for ‘Plectrums’
• Too many fonts
• Less fonts and I wouldn’t have angled photos, keep them straight
• Too much going on at once
• Text could be slightly bigger
• More stories on the front cover
• To many fonts, tone it down
• Change line through ‘Plectrums’
• Move barcode and issue number
• Make title thicker and more obvious, use capitals and not sure about the competition story and album cover used.
• Untidy, use more constant fonts and make main story more obvious

Good points for contents page

• Good images
• Good use of images
• Cool layout, some good images
• Good photos
• Top half looks great
• I like the layout of the pictures
• Good variation of photos and colours
• I like the image variation
• Looks neat and precise
• Good range of photos
• Great photo section

Improvements for contents page

• Change font for ‘this week’
• Font on contents doesn’t look too professional
• There isn’t enough content
• Too many fonts, use darker colour scheme
• Bottom half looks to separate, don’t use blue
• Use different variety of images
• Not sure the two blue boxes work with the other colours
• Make it look more ‘rocky’
• Use bigger fonts
• Change blue boxes have more headings in contents bit at bottom

Good points for double page spread

• Good image, title and quote
• Impressive
• Nice lighting, really good
• Good title, photo, layout and scratched bit at the bottom
• Layout, text and fonts are great
• Good title
• I like the font of the title and the drop capital
• Good faded photo in bottom corner
• Nice layout of 3 columns
• Good variety of pictures
• Love the editing in the bottom corner, the title and the picture fits in really well too.
• Well arranged photo and good mise-en-scene
• Awesome, good image, design and fonts

Improvements for double page spread

• Text is to spread out
• Font size perhaps a little to big
• The heads are chopped off
• Tops of heads are cut off
• Maybe make the quote bolder and capitalised
• Change ‘I’ drop capital
• The little picture is too small
• Reduce image in size
• Heads are cut off
• Add ‘revolution’ next to page number
• Tidy the columns (justify) and your photos are cropped to much at the top

I am pleased with the response I received and will try and take into account as much of the feedback as possible when finalising my magazine. I found that I received a mixture of views such as some people said ‘good layout, some good images’ for my contents page where as others said ‘bottom half looks separate’ and ‘use a variety of images’. I will look at each comment and if I agree with their point I will make the changes. I will experiment with the changes recommended to make my magazine look better to see if I think they work on my magazine or don’t. The feedback I have received has been really helpful and I will use it all to the best of my ability.