Audience feedback and Flat plans for contents pages (music magazine)

These are my flat plans for my music magazine contents pages, using the conventions I found during my Real media research.
I then went on to get some audience feedback on the positive and negatives of each of my flat plans, here are my results:

Flat plans and Audience Feedback of the front covers (music magazine)

These are my flat plans for the front cover of my music magazine, which I have made using my real media research so I know what conventions to use.

After this I then did got my target audience to give me feedback on what the positives and negatives are for my plans. Below are my results:

Flat plans and Audience feedback on the double page spread (music magazine)

Above is my flat plans for the double page spreads, using conventions which I learnt from my real media research.


I then went on to get some audience feedback on the double page spread flat plans to see what my target audience thought was good about my plans and how I could improve on them.
To the right is my audience feedback.

Real Media Research - Double Page Spread (music magazine)

Above is my research into double page spreads, from which I have learnt that there tends to be an overlap between pages; a large title and photograph to draw attention to what the articles about all of which will be useful when doing my own double page spreads.

Real Media Research - Contents (music magazine)

This is my research into the contents pages of music magazines. From this I have learnt conventions such as the page always has 'contents' at the top of the page alongside the name of the magazine, which will help me decide how I will plan to do my contents page.

Real Media Research - Front Cover (music magazine)

This is my real media research into covers of music magazines. Before doing this research i decided that my closest competition to my magazine would be 'Q magazine' as they also do the genre which I am doing for my magazine and therefore have the same target audience. From this research I have learned that red and black are the dominant colours and I have learnt conventions, like how the artist stands, are important to appeal to the target audience.