Weaknesses: Some people found some fonts on the front cover a little hard to read. For example some found it confused as what the website link said. This may have been because of the shade of dark red contrasting with the darkish background. Other problems the audience had with the page was the alignment of cover lines. This was probably because rather than keeping the masthead in line with the cover lines, it expanded to either end of the page, where the cover lines remained in alignment.Strengths: The strength here lay in the co-ordination of colours and arrangement. For example having the box behind the main cover line moderately transparent so as not to detract from the image but still imitate the transparency and colour of the micro-phone and the micro-phone stand. The cover lines where attractive as well. This was because I placed some in the middle-ground of the image, and some in the foreground to outline the importance of them.
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Weaknesses: The main problems was the focus of the image. It was said that the fonts such as 'This week in' and 'making music' were unclear. The reason behind this is that they both shared the same fonts as the Masthead on the front cover. Another sight problem is that the information underneath the subheadings with unreadable, because of the poor JPEG quality. An unshared problem, however was about the rotation of the images. In the same fashion the text in the DPS is slanted as well as the Synopsis pictures on contents page, it was asked that the text on the contents page would be slanted in the same fashion and it would look better than what it is.
Strengths: The colour scheme was all the rage here. The readers were a fan of its simplicity. The general colour scheme of the image and the fonts were liked by the readers. This is because of the continuity between the front cover and this current page. Another strength lay in the originality of the contents page layout, for some readers. The originality came from a scattered-photos-on-a-table inspiration.
Weaknesses: The opinions were quite contrasting here. Some weren't fans of the collage effect of the photos. This was because some readers don't want to have things too complex. The photos on the 1st column left some readers confused.
Strengths: For others, the overlapping pictures was quite liked. Ideally, this was because some did NOT like it, so some had to. But specifically, it gave the readers a sense of familiarity due to the scattered-photos-on-a-table effect. Other strengths were in the colour scheme. It's liked because it still offers this continuity and simplicity. One even liked how the contrast between red, white and black didn't draw an impression it being ruined. This was because the colour schemes were designed to be sharp and eye catching and as to mirror the colours of the instruments used.
