Picture takes too much attention away from the main image

Fill this blank area

Layout of pugs does not look professional

Change colour of this

Change font to make more variety

This seems in an odd place and doesn’t look right

Masthead is not following Codes and conventions

Brits is a pop music award – this is an alternative magazine

White background on barcode does not fit in with the main background

Tagline does not look ‘right’

The angle here looks a lot better – more professional

Red price code does not follow the usual conventions

Looks a lot fuller and professional

Say in what?

Masthead still needs to be larger

At the last moment I looked at using this other picture – primarily meant to be used on my contents page on the front cover because I felt at first it looked more professional. In reflection on this decision, I do not think number 2 follows the genre of alternative and looks more like a pop magazine and I think number 1 is bolder and looks more fun.

Slight adjustments were made here such as lining up the puff, adding ‘hot gossip’ and making the masthead larger

It has taken a lot of development – peer assessment, asking my target audienceand many people to create this completed magazine.

Here is VIDA: