Peer Feedback (Blog & Front Cover)

I have taken into account what everyone has said and I'm willing to make changes to improve. I'm going to maybe make my price smaller, space things out more and make the artist's name stand out more. This way, it will improve my magazine as feedback is very important. I'm glad everyone liked my front cover in general though.

Front Cover Teacher Feedback

Drafts: 4 submitted - all quite good. Draft 4 is the best so far I think

- You need to put a graphic behind your masthead, as the 'dotty' font is nice but gets a bit lost amongst the newspaper background. Also, consider making the masthead a bit 'deeper' - as it's supposed to occupy roughly 1/5 of the page.

- Consider adding a teasing contents graphic along the bottom of your page (behind the 'the only . . .').

- Your barcode needs some work in order to make it look professional. Move it further to the right and add the date and price.

- The cover lines are in urgent need of some attention. They don't work on a slant underneath Sabrina. You might have to consider using semi-opaque graphics behind every bit of text because of the background.

My Response to Feedback:

I am willing to make improvements in order for my magazine to look better. I will change the layout around and add semi-opaque graphics behind most of the text, as I understand that it doesn't stand out because of the newspaper background. I will also make my masthead much bigger because now that I look at it from a different perspective, I can see that it's too small and doesn't stand out because of the background.

Front Cover Draft 4

This is my fourth draft as I decided I needed to change a few things. I made the text near to the bottom go in a diagonal as it makes the cover look more interesting and it also goes against conventions, which would make my magazine different and unique; I also changed the cover lines back to red as I think it looks better that way as it's more neat and the colours go better together. I moved the price near to the top and the selling line at the bottom again. I also moved the competition plug line near to the top as it stands out more there.

Front Cover Draft 3

This is my third draft and this time I decided to change some of the colours to make it look more interesting, instead of just plain colours. I changed the cover lines to dark blue as it makes the front cover look more exciting and stands out more because of the variety of colour.

Front Cover Draft 2

This is my second draft, as I decided to add a competition to the front cover as it's a persuasive technique for getting the reader's attention. I also decided to change the layout around; I moved the selling line underneath the title of the magazine as most magazines conventionally have the selling line at the top. I changed the artist's name to black as I think it stands out more in bold.

Front Cover Draft 1

This is my first front cover draft. As you can see, I have used similar colours throughout; red, white and black. This way, it looks properly structured and easy to read. I chose that type of font for my masthead as it reinforces my type of magazine i.e music from the past; the old arcade type font seemed appropriate and I thought it looked good with the sepia effect of the background, which also makes my magazine have an old fashioned theme. I chose this picture as it connotes her genre; the pose with her tongue out gives the impression that she has a rebellious nature and is willing to go against conventions of posing for a photo, so her type of music would be quite edgy. I used similar colours and font throughout my cover to create a house style.

Editing Photos In Photoshop