Importance of Audience Feedback

In creating magazines and in turn my own magazine, audience feedback is vital, the majority of my magazine was based on feedback I gained from audiences. For example the genre I based my magazine on was decided by a survey I conducted through a number of people at both a rock gig and a bounce/rave night, I conducted a survey at both of these as to not get a biased opinion.

I did quite a few drafts of different examples of my magazine and asking classmates and other people for feedback on each draft helped make my magazine become better and better, for example I created a number of different mastheads for my magazine and asked classmates and my tutor which they thought looked better and would suit the genre of my magazine.

Asking for feedback from an audience was important in creating my magazine as I got more than just my own view. Looking back if I had just left aspects of my magazine like how I thought looked the best I would have created one that didn’t look professional; an example of this is my preliminary double page spread, at first I was going to drag across most of the design for this in my final double page spread, however a few classmates told me that it didn’t look that real, therefore I completely redesigned it and kept on asking for feedback as I made progress with it.