A focus group double page spread

I asked a group of boys in my target range for my magazine and asked what they thought about drafts for the double page spreads I made.

 

The first double page spread draft -
Likes- The way they pictures are positioned and that they look quite natural.
Likes the poses of the main image of Kinsley.

 

Dislikes - the font colour hurts the eyes and the blue on the grey background doesn't work well.
The background colour is dim and dull, too dark.



Improvement - have a brighter colour, simple colour for the background like white.
A colour that is able to be read better than the blue over the background.+

The second double page spread draft -
Likes - styles is better and is more readable due to the orange colour.
The layout is better more organized.
Main image central as other pictures look like they are pushed to the side.



Dislikes - To change the background colour but keep the colour of the font to match a different background colour.
The main image to not be so central and more to the right slightly and make other pictures larger.



Improvements - Main image needs to less central.
Change the background colour to be able to make it brighter.

The male gaze

The male gaze was a theory made by a woman called Laura Mulvey in 1975.



The male gaze is about the visual arts from a masculine perspective. The camera tries to put the audience into the visual of a heterosexual male. Mulvey argues that in cinema the male gaze is used more dominantly than the female gaze.



For an example of the male gaze, the camera may focus on more female features like the curves for longer periods of time, this is to make the males in the scenes look dominant compared to the females as well as making women seem like an object who are seen based only on their physical appearance.

Main image for double page spread

For my main image of my double page spread I have an image that I needed to get rid of the background as it wouldn't of fit in with my idea and background for my double page spread.

This is the original picture of my main image for my double page spread to get rid of the background I removed the background to only have the person left.

This gave me an end result of only having the character left.

Current drafts of front cover

 

Here are the current drafts for my front cover, I shall ask a group of people that are in my target range for the magazine what they like or dislike about the magazine covers and what I can improve to make the cover better.