Peer Assessment

Peer Assessment 1: 

Front Cover:

• Cover: Good use of puffs, however, the text should be integrated with the text more. Maybe, there could be more puffs around the main artist on the front cover.
• Super Impose: You could super impose the main person in front of the title, to make her stand out and bring more attention to the magazine.
• Graphic Image: The graphic image and the text could be a little bigger, to entice people to purchase your magazine.
• Title Block: You could try smoothing out the title block so that it looks like it fits in with the main image and puffs on your front cover.
  
  

Contents:

• Colour of headers: I do like how the colours of your headers are the same as the colours on your title block, however, maybe the colours for your headers could be darker, to make them stand out against the light background of your page.
• Secondary images: Perhaps you could have signatures to go with your images; so that it doesn’t look too plain, like you did with ‘Tiana Taylor’.

 

Article: 

• Article Pages: The layout of the magazine looks very professional, which really helps me gain an idea of who your target audience is. However, some of the questions you asked in your magazine article haven’t been highlighted so it looks like the person being interviewed is asking themselves the questions.
• Spelling errors: You made a few spelling mistakes, don’t worry it’s only a few! ‘Rendering’ and also, in a few sentences, you typed ‘I’ in lowercase instead of capitalising it.
• Quotes: Perhaps you could have one or two more quotes on the images, so that you have more integration of text with the images, otherwise it is a very good article and throughout the magazine, the language is very formal.

Peer Assessment 2:

Front Cover:

Cover: To improve you can put the price down by the barcode make the buzz word Exclusive more Exclusive than it is by maybe making it bigger and bolder possible a different font or have a different background. The words ‘Exclusive interview with Jazmine Sullivan’ is smaller than the other puffs on the front cover so maybe you should make it bigger and then make the artist name within the sentence big instead of having her name twice. Make the bar code smaller and maybe move is to the other side of the page and move the graphic image to wear the bar code is but make it bigger.

Contents:

Contents: the picture of ‘Jazmine’ at the top of the page looks squashed maybe retake or resize picture so it’s not so squashed. I like the fact that you put a picture of the chief Editor and a comment from her to the readers.

Article: 

Article Pages: in the first bit of your article you say that her ‘hair is worn loose in her signature curls’ this means that her fans may be expecting her hair to be loose and in curls but in the pictures her hair is in a bun so you might need to change that. In the first question there is a mistake as it says ‘what is the name of you first album and why did you named it this?’. Make all the questions the same colour and not the same colour as the quot. Start a new line after the question so it is clear when the artist is speaking. The quote’ Heart Rendring intense and powerful’ the word Rendring is spelt incorrect it is spelt Rendering. The end sentence you have put ‘she’s a gifted person who’s is down to earth’ there is a mistake in this sentence as it doesn’t make sense. The last sentence ‘There hasn’t been a confirmation date yet.’ I don’t think that you really need this sentence. I like the fact that at the end you put the interviewers’ name and photographers name at the end of the article.