Rough Cut Feedback: Front Cover

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-Nice house style.                                                               -Need faces and '2014' not overlapped. 
-Good use of different fonts.                                              -Over crowded.
-Like the top banner, good use of fonts.                              -Can't read the red on white well. 
-Name of magazine.                                                           -White and red hard to read.

-Colour Scheme.                                                                -Put photo over 'watch out' story.
-Interesting language.                                                        -Feels cluttered.
-Lots of text and stories.                                                    -'Watch out' bit shouldn't overlap artists face.

-Title and top banner are really good.                                  -Too much white behind photo.

-I really like the layout.                                                       -Photo is bad quality.

From looking at my feedback I have learnt many good qualities about my front cover which I should keep, and many bad qualities that need improving. The feedback tells me that my top banner is good and appealing to the audience meaning I should keep it how it is. They also like the colour scheme and fonts used which is good as I put a lot of work into the selection of these. However, I got a lot of ways in which I can improve my magazine. This is good as I now know what I should be doing over the next few weeks. A few people said the magazine is over crowded and feels cluttered, I will have to cut down on the information I am offering in order to solve this problem. The most popular problem was my photos and the positioning of them, overlapping and bad quality. I will have to spend time going out and taking good quality photos and then spending time editing them to improve the appearance.