My Magazines Survey Monkey Feedback Analysis

Q1. Who do you think the audience of my magazine is?

Most of the people that gave feedback on my magazine thought that the target audience would be 16-25, which could suggest that I didn’t show quite well for who the magazine is.

Q2. What do you think about the layout of my front cover of my magazine?

The four options for this question were good, bad, excellent, or comments. The majority voted that the magazine was good. 25% said that the magazine was excellent and the rest that didn’t voted good or excellent left comments, as no one voted bad. One of the comments were that I should have maybe placed the writing on the front page different.

Q3. What do you think about the layout of my contents page?

For this question I used the same options as the question above (good, bad, excellent, or comments). Again the majority of the people voted good (72%), 12% said that it was excellent and 6% voted that it was bad. The rest (10%) left a comment instead, I would say 5% of those people liked the contents page with just one model more and the other 5% liked the other contents page more.

Q4. What do you think of the layout of my DPS?

This was a quite unanimously vote.  Out of the same options Good, Bad, Excellent, or comments, the majority actually voted for excellent (81%). The rest of the people that completed my questionnaire either voted good (13%) or left a comment (6%), nobody voted for bad.

Q5. What do you think of the colour scheme of the magazine?

Almost everybody that completed the questionnaire used for my magazine RnBsSoul liked my color scheme very much (11% Excellent, 81%Good, 1% Bad and 7% left a comment). The people that left a comment mainly said that the colors that I used (Red, White, and Black) complimented each other and made things (such as my models) stand out even more.  As a critic one person said that the colors that I used were very common colors for a magazine and that I should have thought of something else to make my magazine stand out more from others.

Q6. Who do you think the target audience are, in terms of age, gender and social class?

This question got a very mixed answer. One person thought the age group was around 17-23, had no particular social class that it was targeting and was for both females and males. Another person thought that the age group for this magazine was broader (18-40) but also said that it was for both males and females and didn’t have a specific social class that it was focusing on. Most of the people agreed on that it was for both males and females and also on the question whether it had a specific social class (which was no), but when it came to the age group, there was quite a debate.

Q7. What do you feel I could improve on?

Most of the people thought that the magazine was fine the way it is, but some people did suggest that I should have not covered the front cover model with any writing.

Q8. Do you think that I should have included anything else in my magazine?

The majority of the people who completed the questionnaire didn't think that I should add anything else in the magazine. However somebody did think that more male articles could be included so that the magazine equally appealed to both men and women.



Magazine Developments

 After I got my feedback from my teachers and other students I started to change up my front cover.

As for the masthead I moved it and actually changed the name of the name of the magazine as the old name wasn't quite working because of the extra "S". The font was changed as well as a lot of the feedback said that the font wasn't matching my genre. The new font fits the genre Rnb and Soul much more.

For the main image, there wasn't anything wrong with it in particular, but the face of the model was a bit blurry so that was the reason for the change of the image. Overall, I felt that the image on the left was much stronger, and the costume and body language fit the genre more than the other image.

I also changed some of the cover lines and underlined them to make them look more professional and to give the readers a better overview. The main cover line of my final front cover stands out much more, than the other one and the positioning of the cover lines are much more sophisticated. The house style is consistent throughout my other pages; therefore I felt the importance of portraying this on the front cover as well.

As for the barcode I simply moved it in a bit so that it wouldn't look that squashed. In my feedback it was also suggested that I should move the price and the website around, so I decided to move it closer to the masthead, as it gave it a decorative edge.

The two pages on the top were my first contents pages and the one on the bottom is my final one.

 As for the image on the left the text wasn't that visible as the light on her leg was quite bright and for the image in general it looked stretch and her upper body looked squashed.  Also I felt that the image was quite provocative and therefore would only or more reach out to a particular audience

The pictures on the right side were stretched as well and were suffering of poor lighting.

The new and improved contents page that I created after my feedback is a whole new contents page actually; I changed everything except the actual text. I made sure that all the pictures on the right are now in proportion and are relevant to the magazine and as for the image on the left it is now more direct and sends out a more powerful message which the artist is representing in her interview as well.

I also added the magazines name and page numbers onto the contents page as the first one didn't have that.

As for my DPS I completely changed it. I started off by removing all the images on the top, as they looked overcrowded and took the main focus away from the actual artist. I replaced these multiple pictures by just one main image of the artist; this is a close up, because I wanted to capture the passion in her eyes for her changes. On the old DPS there wasn't a masthead, so I included it in the new DPS, for the readers to know who the article is about, but also to give the artist the recognition that she deserves. I totally changed the layout of the page, by challenging the conventions of the magazines in my case studies, I felt that this worked better and looked more professional for my magazine. I kept the same pull quote, however I might a slight change to the size and repositioned it. I also made the same changes to the introduction. In terms of maintaining my house style, I added page numbers and a logo, which abides by my colour scheme.

My Final Magazine

My Front Cover

My Contents Page

My DPS

First version of my Magazine

My first Front page

My first Contents page

My first contents page

My first DPS

My first DPS

Masthead-first experiments

These are the first experiments with the masthead

RNBSSOUL

RnB&Soul

RNB+SOUL

Front cover - Intitial House Style

Contents page - Initial House Style

My Call sheet for my second photo shoot

Call sheet – Photoshoot

Date: 08.11.2012

Time: 16:00 – 18:00

Location: Media studio

Media: RAW files with a Nikon D700

Photographer: Amanda Geijs and Davia Oughton

Hair: Amanda Geijs

Make-up: Amanda Geijs

Model: Nicoda Mitchel, Matthew Smith, Mason Blue

Special instructions: Formal and laid back clothing. For the guys: both black and white T-Shirt

Concept: “Finding herself”

My second photo shoot

These are some of the pictures of my 2nd photoshoot that I actually used for my magazine.

The models that I used: Nicoda, Sara, Mason and Matthew.

My first photo shoot

These are my first 2 models that I used ( Raychel and Kemzi).

I have booked a second photo shoot, because the majority of these pictures were blurry and also didn't represent my magazine that well. Now I have a better understanding of the camera use and what I want for my magazine as well.