This is very much nearly my final finished magazine, however this is not quite complete. There are a few things that I think I can change that will help improve the overall quality of my magazine.
Areas for improvement:
COVER PAGE
- Border the music tech gadgets with boxes to separate them from other images and to eliminate cutting affect- Correct grammatical errors such as apostrophes
- Change the font to make it more readable to audiences as even I struggle to read some of the writing
- Also to change the colour of some fonts, therefore making sure that audiences are able to read the text easily whilst still grabbing the readers attention from a distance
CONTENTS
- Ensure that the background colour scheming is consistent to add to the professional look of the overall magazine
- I believe that the contents is quite bare, therefore I would like to add some extra images to brighten up the contents page and to offer different advertisements such as 'Follow us on Twitter' and 'Like us on Facebook' This will encourage interaction between my magazine and my audience, this also shows that it is an up to date magazine that is moving with the modern times
- Similar to my cover page I would like to vary the different sizes of the text to offer an abstract look to my contents, this could also be used to advertise different levels of importance of articles, e.g 'World Exclusive With Edward Chua' This means that this particular article is stand out and will be a specific reason why it is larger. Whether it be that the star is famous, or that it is an issue focused solely on that celebrity.
DOUBLE-PAGED SPREAD
- I feel that my second page (2/2) of my exclusive interview with Edward was a weak piece. I think that having one word answers was a unique idea for audiences to see into the personal life of the star however my layout was not strong enough, therefore I would like to change that as I feel I can improve the DPS. Throughout my research I have found that it is common for a DPS to include one page of text and the actual article and secondly a variety of different images of the star. Therefore I will change this in my final draft of my magazine.
- I thought that the mirror images was also a good unique idea, however I felt that it did not work well with the text that I included, therefore in my next draft I would like to use different images to show of many different sides to Edward Chua (in terms of creating a relationship with the reader).