Music magazine - cover drafts

The first installment for front cover was fairly positive and negative. The first point is the masthead: it's not in the correct place where it should be, it's small too and it needs to be the most noticable thing on the page.
The coverlines are not organised according to rule of the left third either. The main headline takes up too much of the model, it needs to be smaller and moved further down so it's not in obstruction. There needs to be teasing contents as there isn't any. The font doesn't really reflect the genre all that well too. Finally there's no date.

Second: the issue number and price needs to move down. The splash and puff graphics need to be a lot smaller. The headline isn't that very distinctive, you need to use more colours to fully showcase the genre. The photograph is quite poor, the model isn't looking at the front cover to make that connection with the audience. There's finally hardly any coverlines or sellines to entice the audience and drag them in. 'Randy Blythe growls his gut out again needs to be removed as it's too long.'

These are my new and improved draft covers. Upon completion of them, I recieved feedback. "Perhaps decrease the size of the price+place it inside of the barcode, perhaps change the colour of "COAL CHAMBER TO REUNITE?" to yellow to match the "lamb of god" and "black sabbath" headlines"

I responded to the feedback and changed the font. I couldn't include the price in the barcorde, so I placed it near it instead. I then asked for more feedback on this cover. The text 'Coal chamber to reunite' needed to be moved down so it isn't obstructing the model, the free posters needed removing, the masthead needed resizing, I need to use different fonts for article titles and shorten the amount of text used.

My feedback for this draft was quite negative again. I was told to re-do the whole thing again. Look at the conventions like teasing contents, rule of the left third, english language used as anchorage, place a date of which the magazine is issued, the splash needs to be resized too, there needs to be a slogan and finally a completely new front image.



Upon feedback, it was really positive. One particular comment was that the main image was cropped well. Another piece of feedback was "I really like the 'Devil In The Details text as it makes it look quite demonic". The cover lines are organised according to the left third, there is some good sell lines (not brilliant, but better than your drafts) and the masthead is a lot more recognisable, however it may need a re-think as it looks slightly eligible

My final piece of feedback was really positive this time. One person said that it looked really well laid out, that the text is clear to read. However, it is slightly boring. The masthead looks a lot more stronger, which connotates the genre. One piece of criticsm is that could I have edited my model to perhaps reflect more of the genre and could there be a possible skyline?