Rough Cuts of my Music Magazine

These are the rough cuts of my music magazine's front cover, contents page and double page spread.
I am quite happy with the results of them but there are a few changes I want to make, I will also be asking my target audience for feedback and this willl help me to improve aswell.
This is my rough cut for my front cover


This is my rough cut for the contents page.


This is the rough cut for my double page spread.




Rough Cut Feedback

I have asked my target audience to give feedback on my rough cuts, which I have included below.

Front cover
This feedback is on my front cover, I asked what they like about my project so far and what they think I could improve on; this is what they said;
Likes
  • The photo
  • The bright colours
  • The big fonts
  • How clear the main feature is
  • The layout
  • The + sign
Improvements
  • Layout
  • Colours, background and fonts
  • More stories
  • Cut the picture out better
  • Mention different artists such a Justin Beiber
  • Don’t put the text so close to the line
  • Barcode and date
  • More features
  • Use more contrasting colours
Contents page
This feedback is on my contents page , I asked what they like about my project so far and what they think I could improve on; this is what they said;
Likes
  • Its neat
  • Good photos
  • Good colours
  • The double page spread  and front cover inset
  • The layout of text
  •  Title
Improvements
  • colours
  • layout
  • add more pages
  • too plain
  • looks to empty
  • could be filled more
  • could include something in the bottom right corner
  • improve the spacing of the boxes
  • introduce a third colour


Double page spread
This feedback is on my double page spread, I asked what they like about my project so far and what they think I could improve on; this is what they said;
Likes
  • photo
  • good presentation
  • good mix of colour, photo and fonts
  • branding in corner
  • website advert at end of article
  • look professional the background 
  • layout
  • layout of the photo with the hearts
  • words behind photo
Improvements
  • the font of the article
  • quotation size
  • better language
  • have more text
  • looks a bit empty
  • the bordering around text
  • cut out picture better
  • fonts
  • no page number on one of the pages
  • make columns neater
  • larger article
  • longer answers
  • make the picture bigger and more dynamic