Focus Group

This is my focus group. My friends Sophie (left), Leon (centre) and Aston (Right) looked at my magazine so far and gave their opinions on what they thought of my work. In general they gave good feedback. After the hot desking with the class I made the corrections that they suggested and printed the pages out for my focus group. Although the dps wasn't quite finished, they still got the general gist of it and could see what it would look like when it was completed. I asked them which of my contents pages they liked better and which one worked better as a contents page for the

magazine. All three of them said that they preferred the original contents page that I did before I recreated it with a different layout. I told them about how my feedback from hot desking was that all the pictures were the same. Aston then said that the new one suited better for it because it had a variety of images other than the other one with just one image. But Leon and Sophie were still 100% on board for the first one.

They all said that they loved the front cover and they couldn't fault it. Apart from one thing. Leon said that the image wasn't as cool as the rest of them, but he said that it wasn't a major problem. I said that it was the look I was going for and it masks the content with a serious face instead of a smiley one or a posed one.

The dps wasn't faulted either. They liked how I wrapped the text around the model's feet on the second page and they loved the in itself. Leon started being picky and said that he could've been looking straight ahead instead of down and I told him that the results of the photoshoot went better than I had intended and I was happy with the photograph.

Overall impressions were good and there wasn't much that could've been changed. Only the debate of the contents page has now left me with a tough decision of which one I choose to use for my final magazine.