Peer Evaluation of music magazine front cover.

I asked another student to evaluate my work to help me improve my final music magazine. My peer looked at both my music magazine front cover and contents page.

The first thing that was noticed was the masthead, ‘the’ and ‘tempa’ were two different fonts and colours, which made it less recognisable as the masthead, and to correct this I must change it to be the same, the ‘A’ in ‘tempa’ was spaced further away from the rest of the word.
The next problem that was indentified was the layer texts. Two layers were partly highlighted, when over lapped onto the main image on the front cover. This made the layers look out of place as the colour changed when on black. To correct this, I will have to either make the font smaller so that it does not overlap on to the picture or will have to change the layer effect.
Another thing noticed was the bar code. This was pushed far too down and into the special offer; this made my magazine look unprofessional. To improve this mistake, all I need to do is to push the bar code slightly up.

Once analysing my music magazine front cover, my peer then had a look at the contents page of this magazine. The first thing noticed was that by using both ‘The’ and ‘Contents’ did not look as good as it could, and so my peer advised me to use only ‘Contents’. However, this would create too much space around the word, and to improvise with this, I will have to add images related to music around the word ‘Contents’.
Another thing noticed was that the images used on the bottom of the page of two females were cornered off. This made the page look incomplete and to correct this I have to pull across the picture to join on to the offer.
I was also asked to change the exclusive offer of the trip. I will have to change this to ‘Win four free tickets to Egypt, read now!’ I was told to do this because by mentioning a family trip the reader could feel that the magazine might be based on family lifestyles, or family etc.
On my contents page I included headlines of stories that are going to be in my magazine cover. Here a couple of mistakes were noticed by my peer. ‘Jennifer Hudson’s shockin story after death of mother and brother’ and ‘Rihanna and Chris Brown wedding find out he full story’ these are obvious mistakes made that need to be corrected in my final music magazine.
To make my contents page look more sophisticated I had to change ‘Jade Goody, sleep and death’ to ‘Jade Goody: sleep and death’ by adding the colon, my contents page looks more confident and understood. However these headlines did not seem appropriate for a music magazine front cover so I had to change this, Instead of saying ‘Jade Goody Sleep and Death’ I used ‘Girls Aloud Perform at Jade Goody’s Wedding’.
I was also told to change ‘exclusive/jade Goody/pictures after death’ to ‘Exclusive/ Tribute to Jade Goody’