Target audience review

After designing my magazine cover I needed to ask my target audience for their opinions. I asked each person for positives and negatives so I know what to improve and what to keep. I wanted them to mention conventions such as images, pugs, cover lines, price and most importantly; whether they would buy it.

From this survey, I found there are some small changes I need to make to cover but overall, they all liked the magazine in general which is positive.

First design of my front cover

The following image shows my first design of my magazine cover. I will get my target audience to review it to see what I can improve on.

Cover Image

When I imported my cover image onto my magazine cover I found his face was covered by the cover lines. To stop this from happening I flipped the image so his face was on the other side. I also found it difficult when the original image background was grey, rather than black, to fit it into the cover without looking a separate image. To make it blend in with the rest of the magazine I darkened it slightly so it was black.



                          New                                                  Original

Photoshoot

After taking the photos for central image I chose these four as the best ones. I wanted the wall as the background and his t-shirt to be black as I found, from my survey, black is the best colour for a rock magazine. I made he images black and white so him, the guitar and design on his t-shirt contrast to the black. The props I used was the guitar and war paint make up.