Audience Feedback Questions

Audience Feedback Questions

Attracting Target Audience

Attracting my target audience...
Here is a Prezi about how I addressed my target audience and the ways in which I used and adapted my product in order to attract my target audience and persuade them to purchase my magazine on a regular basis.

Audience feedback/Sub editing

Here is a photo of one of my peers reading through my magazine coursework, checking for any possible errors in spelling grammar and punctuation, and making sure that my written work is up to the highest standard that it can be. I asked her to make notes on spellings and other items that need improvement, and I now intend to go through these and edit my magazine again before printing it out.

Other than some small spelling grammar and punctuation mistakes and errors that were pointed out, Katherine who can be seen in the picture also pointed out some other items that she thought needed changing and that needed to be improve on the page, the first of those being the text wrapping around the main image in the centre of the page was not very straight, so the columns did not look professional, and your eye was immediately drawn to the mistake because it is wonky.

Secondly, Katherine also pointed out that the page number at the bottom of my page was inconsistent with what page the article was listed as on my contents page. The article was listed as starting on page 27, but in the article I had put page 1, This is because during production I had forgotten what page number i had listed it as in the contents so I put it as page one with the view of changing it at a later date, but clearly forgot, which is why i think peer marking and assessment is so important, because Katherine spotted an error in my work that otherwise may have gone unnoticed by myself.

Lastly after making the initial corrections to my double page spread, Katherine and I discussed whether ir not it would be a wise idea to put the interview questions in to a different font colour in order for them to be read easier and make it easier for the reader to differentiate between the interviewers questions, and the artists responses. I agreed with what Katherine said and decided to change the colour of all the interview questions to red so that they would stand out better.

I really think that taking part in peer marking an assesment is an essential part of the production process in magazines, Katherine played the part of what would be called a sub-editor if this were a real magazine. As I said before, it helped me make improvements and spot mistake that i perhaps would not have noticed had I not had somebody else looking over my work. The sub editing process has helped me improve my work and contributed to the growth of my magazine to looking further like a professionally made product.

Cover feedback from peers

Cover feedback from peers

when I finished the draft copy of my magazine front cover, I decided to ask for some peer feedback. To do this I put the Photoshop file open on a computer screen, and asked some other members of my media class if they would look at it and type comments around it about the things that the liked, and about the things that they thought needed some improvement. From the feedback that I received, there were a few main things that cropped up that I needed to look at.

These were:

• The Masthead font
• The Colour scheme
• the tag/strap line

After my initial feed back on my first front cover, I made some changes. I kept the main image the same as it received positive comments from the first peer feedback, however i changed the position of most of the sell lines and also changed the colour scheme to orange. I also changes the font of the masthead to a bold but much clearer font to read. As well as this I took away the tag line because it was very unclear to read. I then repeated the process of peer feedback and asked members of my media class to give comment on the changes that I made to my cover and let me know what i was doing well, and any further improvements that I needed to make. The comments were generally positive with the main things coming up being:

• Good colour scheme
• Good image
• and good clear masthead

After receiving such positive feedback for my second front cover draft, I decided to keep the design and layout the same (with more sell lines added to the right hand side.) However, I decided to change the colour scheme of the cover so that I could keep consistency with the rest of the pages in my magazine whose main colour scheme was red, grey, black and white. I did try to transfer the other pages in to orange, but I decided that they worked better in red, so it made more sense to change my cover to accommodate this. I again asked some peers to give me feedback on my final design to find out if they liked the colour change and whether or not it would do a good job at attracting the target audience.

The main comments that were made were:

• Good colour scheme
• Good masthead
• nice clear sell lines

Audience Profile

I posted a series of seven questions on to my blog, relating to the target audience of my music magazine and their preferences when reading magazines, I asked some of my peers to answer the questions, in order to give me an accurate representation of the views of my target audience, allowing we do make decisions about the production based on their opinions, in order to appeal directly to my target audience, and persuade them to purchase my magazine. Above I have published the results of my audience questionnaire in a video format using Adobe Premiere CS3.