Double Page Spread Final Product and Feedback

This is my finished double page spread. Although I do like the design of the final product, I feel like some things could be improved.

First of all, I really like the background I created and how I've deleted the background of the main image; although I feel like a better image could have been used. Another thing I sort of dislike is the colour scheme of all the text, so I may go back and change this if I have time to improve.

Here is all the feedback I received. Most people said that the colour scheme fits well with the theme, although can be broadened slightly. Another point is that the background goes well with the genre, and that I have a fairly good layout overall. It was also pointed out that I made a spelling mistake in the body of text, which has now been fixed.

Front Cover Final Product & Feedback

Here is the final product for my music magazine's front cover. I think that for one of my first attempts at creating a legitimate front cover, I've done a fairly good job with it; although there are few things I could do to raise the level of quality higher, such as make the masthead font more relevant to my target audience.

This is all the feedback I got for the front cover, each person giving me two good points and one improvement/ criticism. The majority of people said that I had a good overall layout, good colour scheme, good main image, etc. The main criticism I had is that the background of the main image is a bit strange, so I will probably remove the background and replace it with some sort of pattern relating to the theme. Another problem that kept coming up was that the font for the masthead is fairly irrelevant towards the genre and target audience I chose. 

Contents Page Final Product & Feedback

Here is my finished contents page for my magazine. I quite like the finished product, as I've created brand identity by using the same colour scheme and including the logo. I feel like I can definitely improve by using a wider colour scheme, and maybe using more images.

The things that kept getting mentioned in the feedback is that I don't have a very wide colour scheme, and only really use pink. It was also mentioned that I could change the colour of the font as it blends too much into the background. 

Evaluation

Question 1 - Front Cover 
Question 1 - Contents Page  
Question 1 - DPS  

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4   

Question 5

Question 6
Question 6 pt2

Question 7

Time Management

October 2013

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
	1	2 Begin collecting survey results	3	4 Put all survey results on blog	5 Continue working on preliminary task	6
7 Collect feedback  on  preliminary task	8	9 Research facial expressions etc	10	11	12 Look at different images in magazine make 3 moodboards	13
14 Colour and font samples, research hairstyles and makeup	15	16 Look at differentl lighting styles and camera angles	17	18 Recce Plan on costume and props for my own photos	19 Get in touch with models	20
21 Location Scout Flatplans for final product	22	23 Make pitch for magazine and get feedback	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

Double Page Spread Draft

Double Page Spread Draft

Kicker: A Q&A with the world’s two biggest pop stars, who have finally come together and collaborated on what will be the biggest album of the year.

Good morning! How are you two doing?

Caitlin: I’m doing great, I’ve been looking forward to this interview all morning!

Adrianne: Yeah, me too!

When will your album be released?

C: 10^th of December.

A: Exactly one month today, actually.

Can you tell us the name yet?

A: The name of the album is still secret and will be revealed on the release day, but we can say that the first single will be called Run to You. That’ll be released in about 2 weeks.

You two haven’t done any solo music in a while, is that because you were writing this album?

C: Well we were both struggling with creating our own music, I couldn’t write the music and Adrianne couldn’t write the lyrics. So, we basically decided to collaborate to end the no-music streak.

You must have had a super busy year, how has it been for you both?

A: It has been really tough, definitely at the start of making the album, although it’s been very fun and we’ve both loved every minute.

C: As time went on it definitely got a lot easier and way more fun.

So after this album, will you ever be collaborating with each other again?

C: We will be going back to our own music for a while, but we’ll definitely do another collab with each other another time.

A: Not just with each other though, I’ve got a few collaborations planned with other artists, so there’s that to look forward to!

Well good luck with the album, I hope you get to number 1!

C: Thank you, us two hahaha.

A: Thanks for having us!

 

 

Pitch Feedback

To sum up the feedback, most critical responses told me that I could've included images, talked about the colour scheme more, I could've made the layout better, and that I could have talked about the layout and images that I will include. On the other hand, I got a lot of good feedback about the detail I went into about the target audience, that I have good ideas, and that the idea for the main article sounds very interesting.