Audiance Feedback

I showed my semi-finalised version of my magazine to the art director of MOJO music magazine (Mark Wagstaff) who was impressed, he said that he liked the coherency and the way the colours worked well together. Using only three colours made it look similar to magazines on the market, it looks simple and uncluttered. He said that my front cover looked 'professional' and works well as a front cover to draw in the implied audience, he was very interested in the masthead as he said it was 'different' yet 'stylish'. As I had not completely finished my contents page when he looked at my magazine, U wasn't yet sure what I should do with some empty space; so I asked him for any advice. He suggested that I should move some of the images around, filling the space. We both agreed this looked better and made it look like more of a boys' magazine, which is my intended audience. In conclusion he said that it targeted my target audience very well, by the choice of colours, images and straplines.
I also decided to show my magazine to a good friend of mine who is a 17 year old male, who my magazine is aimed at. He liked the idea that a new upcoming drummer was on the front as he is very interested in drumming and would like to know more about it; therefore making him want to buy the magazine. He liked that it wasn't cluttered and it was easy to find the pages which you want to read about, He said it looked 'interesting' and 'worth the price' he also said that the straplines are 'worth reading' and liked that my feature was on a DJ artist as he is very interested in how DJ's do what they do. In conclusion, he said that he would buy my magazine if he saw it on a magazine rack in the shop as it stands out and looks interesting; therefore targeting my target audience.