Audience feedback and other drafts of magazine front cover

I allowed 5 people of ages 17-18 to view the first draft of my magazine front cover:


I wanted to get audience feedback so that I could consider their comments and make the changes as appropriate as this group of people will be the target audience for my teaser trailer, poster and magazine front cover feature.
Some of the comments that I got back were:
'the colour scheme is effective, it's the same on the poster so you know it's the same film' - male, 18
'the image of the girl is good because you know the film is about her and that the magazine is including a special feature about her' - male, 18
'you have advertised different things in the magazine well because the audience will want to know what is in there, so the reviews is good and so is the section about horror films' - female, 17
'the section 'top 100 horror movies of all time' could be made smaller as it slightly covers the image of the girl too much - male, 17
'the font could be made simpler because that's what other magazines have - simple font' - male, 18
'the circle with on set with the cast of flat 39!' is a good feature but you could get rid of the circle because it looks a bit random and not to do with the images below' - female, 17

I will take these comments into consideration when I am constructing the final draft of my magazine front cover feature.

This is my second draft with the changes that my target audience suggested to me:


I decided to make some changes and decided to change the text 'on set action with the cast and crew of Flat 39!' to 'Inside: on set with the cast and crew of Flat 39' as this successfully advertises directly, what is inside the magazine. Due to furthur audience feedback I have decided to make the title of the film 'Flat 39' bigger as I want this to be the main feature of the magazine so the audience's eyes are drawn towards this. This is the third draft of my magazine front cover feature:


I had to make some final changes for my final magazine front cover, I manipulated the 'total' on the total film mast head to have the same font as 'Flat 39' so a sense of branding is created and it is as if the film is so established that it takes over the magazine design. I changed the colour of 'total' to black as it fits in with the colour scheme of my magazine front cover and looks effective as it also connotes the genre of the film: horror. I also decided to change the price '£2.99' to '£2.90' as this is the actual price of a total film magazine and I decided to add the website 'totalfilm.com' as this is a convention of total film magazine front covers. This is my final draft for my magazine front cover feature: