Audience research on front cover



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When I finished my first draft of my front cover I needed advice on what needed to be improved and what needed to be changed which I displayed in previous post when I annotated my front cover with changes that needed to be made. however I needed to do some adience research to do with the small image of phantomz on the left. so i wetn around asking people which cover they preferred such as with a faded picture, no picture and a bold picture.



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Here are the results of audience research for my magazine cover. I clearly shows that the magazine cover without the picture was the most favourable and when asked why they had chosen that particular cover many of the answers were because 'The picture looked out of place' and some said that 'It stood out on the cover'. Moreover the audience I used to research are mainly my target audience therefore their opinions and advice are always useful to improving my magazine. I have decided to use the magazine cover without the pic as it was the most like however will still edit a few things that i feel need some improving on such as filling in the gap whereby the picture was removed from or even jus moving the 'Top 50 Rap Artist' down to fill the gap diving the front page more space and better positioning.