Magazine 1st Draft

This is my 1st draft of my magazine front cover as you can see i have made a lot of changes from my mock-up. I asked my target market about the mock up page and they gave me feedback on what they liked and disliked about it, this way i could improve on it.

Front Cover

One major thing that the target market seemed to want to change was the background, on my mock up i cut out the background, to give a more simplistic look as i thought i would be able to make the business with the text, however the target market seemed to think that it was to plain, and so when i took my real pictures i also felt that they looked much better with it, when it was just plain white it did not give of the correct vibe being alternative rock as it was too plain and simple.

I have also changed the colour scheme as it goes much better with the picture i have used and this way you are able to see the text clearly. speaking of text i have moved ''The new voice of 2012 Toy soldiers'' and the quote because i felt that there was just an empty gap at the bottom and i wanted to fill, also seeing as the band is the main object of the magazine i felt it important that it stood out and did not fit in with all the other subtitles.

My target market like the picture as it had the band members on different levels i carried this idea through to my 1st draft but made it more dramatic, however one problem i had with it was trying to keep with the rule of thirds an so i have to make alteration to heights to make sure that they were still at different levels but also that the picture was central and no faces were being covered up.

Contents Page

As you can see i have made changes to my contents page aswell, the main change on this draft is the picture, on my mock up i felt that it was giving of a more acoustic impression rather than rock, but because i could not take a picture of an electric guitar due to the fact that i do not know anyne who ones one i decided i would just change to angle and effect of it.

My target market liked the idea of separaters, however i felt that there were too many so i decided to keep one separater, keeping the page items and the editors message separate. I also decided to chane the positions of the content items to fill up the page more.

Double Page Spread