Audience Feedback on Magazine Cover

After creating the 'mock up' magazine cover, I had a small focus group of peers look at i and analyse what they thought wasn't so good and could be improved for the final cover example. These are my findings:

The first thing they picked up on was the text at the bottom of the page, and they thought there was far too much there to take in and read at once. Although the idea was to fill some space at the bottom of the page and create a border, i now realise that this could be done better and the text can also be reduced.

Another thing they didn't think looked very professional was the 'Cartoon Edition' running across the masthead, as it looked slightly out of place. This can easily be moved and changed to 'Animation Edition' to make it look more professional.

Colour was another issue they picked up on, where the common thought was that there was far too much colour on the page, and that there was colour covering the main article. They also picked up on the Pug on the page, and the feedback stated that it was out of synch with the cover style, and also that it looked two dimensional on the front cover.