Audience Feedback

I uploaded picture's of my Front Cover, Contents page and my Double-Page Spread to Facebook to get audience feedback from my audience.

Because I targeted my audience was 15-24, I mainly asked there opinion on my magazine but I then thought it would be useful to ask someone who is not in my target audience their opinion on my music magazine.

I asked a boy who is aged 18 what he thought of my magazine this is his feedback:

Front Cover- He likes the layout of the text, and the image but he thinks that the front cover is to plain and needs some more colour to it and he also suggest the text at the bottom should be changed.

Contents Page- He said he really likes the layout of the contents page and thinks it looks quite professional and how that the masthead is the same from the front cover.

Double page Spread- He said he likes the article and thinks it links in really well with the headline title but that I need to use my space more wisely.



I then asked a girl aged 17:

Front Cover- She said that I should try and space my tag lines out abit more so they fill more room. She then added at the end 'Apart from that it's top notch.'


I then asked another girl aged 17:

She didn't express any comments on my Front Page or on my Contents Page but she did on my double page spread:

She said overall the amount and size of text are good and the colour matches the rest of the overall colour scheme of the rest of the magazine. But she thinks the actual text on 'Lauren Ronan' could be a lot bigger to fill some more space and to show that she's the main focus and also the image itself could be a lot bigger.


I then asked a boy aged 16:

Front Page- He said he really liked the image and the layout of the other articles inside, He suggested that on my front cover to fill the white space and maybe add in more text like free posters inside.

Contents Page- He said he really likes the layout and how I've added in Facebook and Twitter and he thinks that works really well.

Double Page Spread- He said he likes the way I've changed the background colour from the rest of my others but suggested that I should had more space used up by possibly having more images.

I then asked another girl aged 22:

Front Cover- She said she really likes the masthead and the gradient fill on the 'Listen' text layout and thinks it really stands out. She said she also likes the way the selling line comes off from the masthead. At first she said she couldn't tell what kind of genre the magazine was but then she read the tag lines and instantly recognised that it was a pop magazine with a snip of rap as well. She said she also likes the italics underneath Lauren Ronan.

Contents Page- She said she really liked the way I had added the social platforms and how I had linked in to the text, She said she really liked the layout and how there is an image on Lauren in the red box.

Double Page spread- She said I need to add more images into my double page spread and that I need to make World Exclusive and Lauren Ronan much bigger so you can see it's a main focus.


I then thought it would be good to asked a 38 year old women about the magazine:

Front Cover- She said the layout is really good and she thought the target audience is 15-33 which isn't really my target audience so I might have to change certain things around in my magazine to make it apply to my target audience more. She also thinks I should try a very light gradient fill on my front cover because there's to much white space.

Contents Page- She said the layout is really good and that she really liked my contents page but thinks I should also add in the issue number into my contents page as well.

Double Page Spread- She said she likes the colour scheme, and that the text is very well written. She also suggested that I should take a quote from Lauren out of the article and write it in bigger font at the top somewhere.

I found that this was very useful and even though she doesn't fit my target audience she still had some of the same opinions as other people.