Audience Feedback: First Drafts

Once more, I sought out feedback on my first drafts to see if what I was doing was acceptable and to receive constructive criticism. The feedback I received was mostly positive and this showed me that my product would work well and would be received well by my target audience. However, I did receive a fair bit o negative feedback but it was constructive and shows me what I can change to be better.

Once again, this feedback comes from a person that I would expect my magaizne to appeal to. The subject is my aunt who is recently (in the past two years) married. She is 27 and she is a rich woman belonging to the upper middle class. She has told me that she would have interest in a magazine like the one I am making thus she is a member of my primary target audience.


Transcript:

- Okay, so here's the first draft of my front cover. What do you think? 
- The image here is beautiful. I love the way that her head is put above the masthead and I know this is a small thing to pick out but I like how the masthead can still be partially seen through the veil. The use of the expression and pose here is lovely too. 
I won't make proper comment on the layout until you've written up your sell lines. 
- Here's the first draft on my contents page. What do you think of that? 
- The image of the rings is particularly stunning. I like the way the layout looks. Again, I think I need to see a product with the write up before I can make a proper comment. Same goes for the article - though, the images you have are gorgeous, it's clear that you still need time to develop them.
- And here's the first draft of the billboard. 
- As for the billboard, this is an AMAZING start. The image is beautiful and the expression is eye-grabbing and romantic. The only critique I can give is that you need more additional information. You need the website URL or something, whatever it was that was in your original design. 
- Aaand the website?
- To be totally honest, this layout is a little boring. It needs more added to make it work properly because at the moment it just looks bland. You also can't reuse that image (EN: this was referring to one of the four images at the top of the page where I'd zoomed in on the bouquet). You need to take a different image of the bouquet.  
- Okay, thank you.

As I received a lot of feedback here, I once again decided to sort the negative from the positive by making an info-graphic with two different tables. This was once again something to refer back to later.