Audience Feedback about DEFinitive Magazine

I asked various people around the college 5 simple questions about how well they felt the my magazine worked, I thought it was important to find out some audience feedback so that if they could see any faults with the magazine they could give me constructive criticism about the magazine and I could improve the various elements in the magazine which the audience which is most likely to read my magazine felt needed to be changed.
I asked 2 random people from around the college about what they thought worked well with the magazine and what needed to be improved, here is the feedback which they gave me:


Participant 1
Is this a type of magazine that you would consider reading?
I don't see why not, it looks quite interesting and the bands which seem to be featured are all bands which are in fact in my personal music library and the featured stories do look interesting.


Do you think the colours which are used throughout the magazine work well together?
Yes, they seem to bring out the best from the images as they are very sharp and un-pixelated and work well on the black background, the idea of using some coloured images throughout the magazine whilst the majority of the photos are black and white works well and the idea of the small areas of colour on a dark background works well.


Are the images the type of images which you feel you would generally find in a magazine?
Indeed, I think the quality and the style of the images is simple yet effective, although some more colour photos on the pages would have made the magazine stand out a little more.


Does the text on the front cover of the magazine stand out from the images?
The banner style headline on the page works well, and the colours of the text make it stand out from the black and white image and black background, but if I would criticise you for anything I would say more text needs to be added to the front page.


Is the contents page interesting to look at?
Yes I like that it stands out from the other pages because of the red border style thing. It is effective and definitely works well. Also the difference in the size of the page numbers to the text works well because it gives the audience something to look at.


Participant 2
Is this a type of magazine you would consider reading?
The music which is involved isn't really well but it does look quite interesting.


Do you think the colours which are used throughout the magazine work well together?
Yes although some brighter colours would maybe appeal to me more as it would make the magazine alot more interesting to look at. But the simpleness of the colour scheme does work well.


Are the images the type of images which you feel you would generally find in a magazine?
Yes, they are a good quality of image, but I feel it is usually more conventional to use coloured images but this style makes the magazine slightly different from others and more unique.


Dose the text on the front cover of the magazine stand out from the images?
Yes, but more text would make the page look more appealing and interesting as it would introduce more colour onto the page.


Is the contents page interesting to look at?
Yes, the different styles on the page work well together and the colours and styles of image work well for what they are meant to do on the page, I also like that the page has been cut in half in a way because of the separation of the text and the image at the top of the page.




Over all, I feel that my magazine works well although I feel that I should maybe consider adding in various things too it, such as more text on the front page of the magazine so that it is more colourful.