Second magazine draft

After receiving feedback for our first magazine draft we decided to create a second draft with a different design to see how our audience would react to it. The reason we are doing this is because the previous draft received a lot of positive feedback with a few minor improvements (change the font) so I felt it would be more beneficial for my group to make a different design for this draft so we could get a better variety of feedback which could become useful for when we make the final magazine cover. The draft can be seen here:

Now as you can see, most of the poster has been kept except that the name now appears at the top of the page, we also added a new piece of information in the circle which reads 'Free satanic starter set' which was chosen to be a humours joke because of how over the top it sounds. Onto the most notable thing that's changed we reworked the main image of the cover which now shows the villain grabbing the films title with most of his face his face now hidden this will make it more suspenseful when the audience watch the trailer as they will be unaware who the killer as they will have now idea what he looks like. Once the draft was completed we showed it to our audience.

“Free! satanic starter set” is worrying. Blank at the top. Hands are on but the title is difficult to read the strapline is interesting. – Mr Vardy

I like the idea of close up to the chest having the villain holding the title does not fit the horror genre. - Owen

Simple to read which is good. Interesting subjects (Articles in the magazine) I like the concept of it but the drawing could be bigger. Natalia

I like the holding of the movies name. I don’t like the “Free! Satanic starter set”. The top bits confuses. Simple hands are cartoony but it works. - Josh

Looking at the feedback it would of probably been a good idea to not include satanic starter set joke as much of the criticism was about how over the top it sounded. Aside from this most of the audience liked how the villain was holding the title as it shows his strengths and is also a subtle reference to how in our trailer the villain will overpower the task force. Other improvements were that the image of the villain could be bigger so that it covered most the magazine and that the films title was difficult to read.