This is a slide share discussing all of the alterations my partner and I have made to our magazine front cover; once having feedback from our target audience and teacher.

1. Alterations Made to Magazine Cover
After receiving a varied amount of information from our target audience, we were given a decent
amount of constructive criticism back, to what myself and my partner should do to ensure that our
magazine front cover is of the highest quality.
Rhiannon took control of editing the magazine, which meant she was free to come up with new ideas
she had, about what features we could add on the front page; she would then present them to me and
we would discuss them. We had both agreed on a set amount of features that we wanted to appear on
the magazine, we already had an inclining that we would most likely alter the front page, depending on
the response that we got from out target audience. From looking back at our original ideas of the
magazine cover, our ideas have developed dramatically. However, we always knew, that the title of our
magazine was going to be in the font it is in now and as a red colour, and that our background would be
black/grey so that it would fit the conventions of a horror magazine front cover.
As a creators of this work, both myself and Rhiannon understand that audience feedback is one of the
most important aspects when creating a product. Taking this into consideration, we not only decided to
ask our target audience, but also our teacher, to ensure that the magazine cover we create, would be
suitable and realistic enough to be presented in a shop display.
The rest of this document is displaying the other four edits of the magazine front cover, and will be
explaining what changes were made and why.

2. This was the very first edit that my partner and I created as soon as we had collected our ideas
from the mock up. As you can see from my blog post of our mock up, the same techniques and
features were used, as we and our target audience very much liked the mock up. Our main
colour scheme was red and black, because although we wanted to challenge some conventions
of a horror, by having a male play the victim, we also wanted to follow the generic conventions
so that our target audience were very clear on what type of genre we were trying to promote.
Therefore, the mast head of our magazine, and our title of the film, are both in red; they are the
only two things in red to ensure that they stand out to the audience. Myself and Rhiannon also
wanted to ensure that we followed the conventions of a magazine in general. Therefore, we
have included: a bar code, the date of release, the price, social media links (being the website
address), the title and of course our main image.
Having had further feedback from showing various people, I suggested that the mast head
should be in a brighter red, not only because the name of our film was, but just so that it stood
out and was clear what the name of our magazine was. As a first attempts we were both pretty
happy how it turned out, but there was still something missing. After looking back at my
research into magazine front covers, I found that there could be some more improvements
when it came down to the generic conventions of a magazine front cover.
This is why we decided to include a ‘feature’ onto the front page. Initially Rhiannon wasn’t too
sure that it was going to look right, as she feared it would ruin the overall effect of the trailer.
However, I insisted that in order to follow does and conventions, this was something that
needed to be present on the front page. To ensure that we were making the right decision, again
we asked our target audience, and called people over to our computer screen to get another
opinion.
Once people looked at our previous edit, and compared it to the newer version, they expressed
that they though the feature worked very well and it looked more like a real life magazine that
you would see on the shelf of a supermarket. Having got our target audience to have a look at
the newer version, we then decided that we wanted to ask our media teacher for some more
advice. Although myself and Rhiannon knew that we were going to play around with the effects
even more, one of the things that our teacher suggested, was that we make the ‘feature’ circle a
different colour. This was something which we had prepared for, and we actually tried a couple
of other different colours to see what went best; silver, gold and red. All of these changes are
apparent on the next slide. However, although the feature was the only new effect, our media
teacher also explained that she felt like there was too much grey on the background, and it took
away the eerie and creepy effect of the main image. We both took this into consideration in the
next editing stage.

3. This is the very next edit that was created. Both myself and Rhiannon wanted to ensure that our
magazine front cover was of the best standard that it could be, so we made sure that we changed
everything that our target audience had mentioned to us. Clearly the main change here is the
colour of the feature. Like mentioned before, we had played around with a silver colour as well,
but after looking at it, we felt that it blended to much into the grey and black of the background,
and that it didn’t really add much to the overall effect of the front page. However, once we
applied the gold shade, it was the perfect colour! Not only does it stand out from everything else
on the cover, but it also looks have if it could symbolise a medal. We quite liked this idea, as it
was almost as if it could symbolise that our film is one of the best, and it helps to advertise it
(which is the main purpose of the front cover) .
The feature was the main aspect that we wanted to change. We felt like after we played around
with it in the editing process, it was a vital part to our film poster and that it added so much more
to the overall effect. Furthermore, another noticeable change is the fact that we took away one
of the layers of smoke which was covering the front page. If you compare it to the previous
image, it now looks a lot clearer and ever so slightly better quality as the main image is now
clearer. The main reason we changed this, was because a lot of our target audience had said to us
that they felt like it was a ghost story, and although it may seem like that, we did not want to be
the main focus of our cover, so decided to change it.
This is the very final edit of our magazine front cover. As you will be able to see, quite a lot has
been improved from previous image, and this is mainly because we had received a good amount
of feedback from our audience surveys from creating a questionnaire on what they thought of
the magazine front cover.
The feature was kept the same colour, however, we decided to put a bold line around it to make
sure that it stood out, as before we had a lot of complaints that you couldn’t actually read what
was written in the gold circle.
The change in some of the font is noticeable too, whereas before, everything was all relatively the
same size and font, now we have some bolder font and a different text font, to ensure that it
followed the typical conventions of a film magazine front cover.
Finally, the last thing which we decided to change at the last minute, was the colourings of the
mast head. We decided that it looked very plain and not that interesting, and we also felt that it
matched the title of our film too much. On magazines, usually the mast head and the font of what
ever is being advertised, will be different to ensure that the audience does not get confused.
Therefore, we decided to use a form of shading (explained in the editing of the front cover post).