A few things my target audience member found appealing was the name of the magazine definitely sounded artistic in a musical sense. I was also consistent with my colour scheme and used colours that complimented each other. I was able to use the right image for my background as it looked as if the model was directly looking at the reader (angle of gaze). The layout of the front cover and contents page had been nicely developed and looked similar to most music magazine layouts. The features I had used were relevant to today as they are current affairs and they are all real which definitely made it appear to be more realistic in that sense. After editing the models face with the 'spot healing' tool, I made the model appear to have "barely any flaws".
From what I gathered from my target audience member, she would like me to photoshop the models features more to accentuate certain areas of the models face. I then adapted from this critique by airbrushing the models face slightly so some spots and pores weren't visible and used an enhancer tool to make the eyes light brown. I was also asked to perhaps sharpen the photo of the model more to outline the features of her face, I was able to do this by using a 'sharpen edges' tool on photoshop which created a better emphasis on the facial structure. Another renovation I was asked to make was to move one of the features of the front cover models face and place it in order of length which I have done for both my front cover and contents page which made the layout look more cleaner and professional. Lastly, the final critique I was asked to do was somehow try and use darker colours that could reflect a hip-hop genre, I found this quite difficult to accomplish since I had used light gels to photograph my model instead of using photoshop to create layers. Therefore I tried to darken certain areas around the model; hair and clothing.
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