Audience Feedback Improvement

After posting my front cover, contents page and DPS on my blog i received many comments. Majority of the comments were good which meant I did not have to change a lot of things on my magazine however there were some fair improvement points.

Mark Rivas- 'I like the colour scheme of the front cover and the layout of the cover line is really unique. However some the text on the left is cut off so that should be adjusted.' 
Mark made a very fair point about the text that was cut off on the side. Because I was rushing to finish off my finished draft and post it I did not notice it however after seeing the comment I moved the second layer of 'BANDS!' (purple text) more to the right so that it would be more closer to the first layer which is the white writing. Also I got rid of the '!' on the purple layer to make things look clear which has made a massive difference in my opinion. In addition, I moved the writing 'Disturbing' more to the left because it was also on the line of the yellow text box which looked unprofessional. 

Adrija Steniukinaite- 'your front cover looks professional! I like the layout and the font of the text. The colours you have used work well together. Maybe you could add the issue date at the top of the cover.'

Adrija pointed out that my colours that I have used work well together. I used colours on color.adobe that complimented each other and I also chose to use yellow because Kerrang! and Rocksound have used yellow too. Another thing that Adrija said is that I could add the issue date at the top of the cover. However, I placed the issue number and the date on my contents page rather than the front cover because Kerrang! magazine had the issue number and the date on contents page. There reason for this might be to not make a crowd of writing as people are usually not interested because the eye-catching part of the front cover is everything else excluding the price and other details like issue number. 

Serena B- 'As someone who would read an alternative magazine, your colour scheme doesn't really appeal to me, have a look at Kerrang! and RockSound, there's just a bit too much yellow on yours'. 
The reason I chose to use yellow was because both Kerrang! and Rocksound have used yellow many times before in many different magazines. The reason it may not appeal to some people might be because yellow is not necessarily a 'gothic' or a 'dark' colour. However, my model on the front cover is not a metal singer, he has moved on from metal to rock which means it was a good opportunity to use yellow rather than basic colours such as black and red. The purple next to yellow was my addition. I would have used navy blue however I did not want to copy Kerrang! directly.

Serena B- 'On your cover just refine your aligning like on the pull quote it's more slanted than the 'Fallen Angel' so put them on the same diagonal and with the 'Emerging Bands' on the right hand side.'
This is a really good point because I noticed this before I poster my draft too. The main cover line is diagonally not same as the cover lines which does not look appealing. I have made this mistake because of the lack of time as I missed many little details like this. To improve my magazine, I have diagonally made the main cover line the same as the cover lines. I also increased the size of the text to fill in negative place and added an extra cover line to also fill in the space on the left.

Serena B-'I don't really like the white background on the contents and cover, in my opinion your work is really awesome then the background is quite bland? It needs something but i'm not sure what :s'
I have tried different background colours such as grey, black and yellow and the colours I changed to did not look good on my contents page. The most suitable colour ended up being white which is why I made the background white. Black was the second option however as my front cover's background is white, and very colourful, going from vibrant colours to black was a bit too much of a difference and the contrast was not good to see.

Mark Rivas- 'I like the colour scheme of the magazine and it conveys the genre well and the images are also very good, however there is a grammatical error in the DPS as it should say 'fell into depression'. Overall it looks very professional and well done.'
I made a grammatical mistake by writing 'Fell in depression' rather than ' Fell into depression. I have fixed this mistake by correcting it. It also looked even better because it filled in the extra space next to the images.

My changes- I have noticed that in magazines the website of their page is in every page. After Vanessa commenting on this I decided to change my contents page and add the website link at the bottom of the page, along with moving the page number from centre to the right side of the page. This made the contents page look a lot more professional and realistic.

Other than these improvements, majority of the comments were positive. A lot of people commented on how they liked my colour scheme and the layout of my magazine. Here are some of the comments:
Adrija: I like the colour scheme that you have used and that it remained the same through out the cover, contents page and DPS. The genre is clear from you design
Seema- I really like your magazine as the colour scheme works nicely and it all comes together very well. the font that you have chosen links to the genre and it looks good. for now i cant think of anything you could change or fix because it looks very professional and actually looks like a rock magazine.
Anieska- I really like your magazine colour scheme as it fits nicely with the genre.I think on a hold your magazine looks very professional.