Thursday 22 January 2015

Drafting and Planning: Feedback

I got lots of feedback from my latest versions of my magazine.

Front cover:

Alter the cover line 'Paradoll's Pinnacle Single' into 'Album'.
Perhaps alter the size of Todd Taylor's cover line.
(having looked at contents page feedback, perhaps change the cover line
'30 biggest gigs' to '100 biggest gigs'?)

Contents page:

Change the 'Issue December 2014' to either;
'Issue: December 2014' or change the date into 'January 2015'
At page 30, change 'Q's and A's' into 'Q and As'
Change 'Top Gigs' into '100 Top Gigs' (and in doing this, then change the cover line from '30 biggest gigs' to '100 biggest gigs')
Get rid of 'contact us'!
Also, re-arrange the page numbers into spreading over 100 pages; monthly magazines do have LOTS of pages! Make it look like it's worth £5.99!
Also, change 'Charts list' into something more original to HARK; For example 'Hark list' or 'Hark's top hits' etc. And compress the list down and write a section saying 'listen to previews on 'harkmagazine.com' or something around them lines to incorporate the online side of music magazines. Also, change the 'page 2' on the contents page to 'page 3' and keep in mind where the double page spread would fit in within the actual magazine. So would it actually be pages 20-21 or 21-22?

Double page spread:


Add in much more text and reduce the font size! Make sure the page numbers are consistent too throughout and count what page number the left page will be and the right page etc.

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