Magazine update

After showing our magazine to the parents of members of our target audience, the general consensus was that there was too much white space (which we had already identified) and for a front cover it wasn't as 'busy' as a typical magazine they would buy for their child. The children responded well to it initially; it seeming to interest them. However this didn't last as long as we would have hoped. Therefore we understood we needed to minimise 'white space' and increase the  amount of components on the page to increase desirability. 




(In response to Mr Codling's comment on my previous magazine post (Link here), we are choosing to stick with convention and not have the characters 'interact' with the free toy. Also, there was thought about having an image of the free toy underneath the actual toy so that when the actual toy was removed, the image would still be there. We have chosen not to do this because our style models of magazine cover tend not to do this. Instead they just cover a small part of the whole image up with the toy. Example below.)

Taking into account everything our audience feedback gave us, and also what our teachers suggested... this is our final magazine cover. After making the final changes we wished to, we showed it to our focus group again and they felt it was greatly improved by adding the new components and the children seemed to agree - because it kept their attention for longer.