Interview Held with my Demographic

I wasn't 100% happy with my first version of my front cover as I didn't think it was looking like it would be a complete-cover for a pop-magazine, in terms of communicating the genre correctly to the target audience. To try and improve my work I took the step of organizing a structured interview with a small focus group of my demographic.

My interview was with Lucia (16), Rosie (17) and Archie (18).

The first question I asked them was:

"Does the magazine Front Cover represent the artist efficiently?

Archie's response was "I would not be able to tell that she is a pop artist from this front cover, I think this is due to the colour scheme being too formal and not bright and fun, which I think pop should be."

Lucia followed with "Yes I agree with Archie, the models dressed in a glittery dress and her facial expression has a lot of attitude to it, therefore I don't think the front covers and colours match the fun and bubbly personality of the model, which is resulting in the model not seeming to fit in on the front cover."

I then asked:

"Does the layout work?"

Rosie replied "The first thing I look at on a front cover is the photo, therefore I believe that there shouldn't be any writing over her hair or face as it takes attention away from the photo, and also results in the front cover looking messy."

Archie said "I think that also the photo itself could be made bigger so that the models head covers more of the masthead as she looks a bit too low down. However I like the central position of the cover star so I wouldn't change that aspect."

The final question I asked was:

"Does the colour-scheme work?"

Lucia said "I believe that the dark red colour makes the magazine look too harsh for the genre, I think that pop should have a softer tone, maybe a pale pink?

Rosie then followed with "I also don't think that the dark colour works well with the models skin tone and outfit colours, I agree with Lucia and think that a softer colour would look better."