A review from someone in my target audience

Since we have not been at school, we have ben at home and finishing our exams up. While being at home since I am more of an extrovert, one of my best friends have let me stay at her house for the past 2 weeks to spend time with her. I know this might not be "social distancing" to some people, but since we haven't gone anywhere we are still being distant from everyone. She has been a lot of help with me finishing my magazine because she fits in with my specific target audience. As I was finishing it up though, I did not want her to see a lot of it since I wanted to have her review it once I was finished. This is what she had to say.

I originally took a video of us speaking about it but it wouldn't go in my blog so I can explain what she has to say. I also spoke to my friend Karly. She is a female age 16 that is still in high school. She fits well in my target audience considering I wanted it to be ages 15-26. She falls more on the younger end of my target age group but I thought she might have good outside advice since she was not in this class or knew what was going on.

I started by showing Karly my cover page, she said she liked the title Eatin Good and she really also enjoyed the Heath Girl Summer headline, which reminded her of a song from last summer called Hot Girl Summer. She also complimented the color choices on the cover since she said they matched well with the front cover.

Next, I showed her my table of contents. She seemed to really like this page. She mentioned the spike bubble around all the page numbers. She said she enjoyed how I continued that design on all the other pages too. She said the bright green headings looked nice with the greens in the photos and made the page pop out and add more color. Karly said that the green text made her think of healthy foods which is another thing I was trying to achieve. She said that all the colors on this page looked very summer like and brought out my summer theme well.


Lastly Karly looked at my double page spread. She said the page layout was kind of basic which is understandable since all the words are on 1 side of the page and then the photo is on the other. She said she has seen magazines set up like this before. She mentioned the color background on the left side page and thought it went well with the other pages and was a good look for the double page spread. She loved the name of the page EDIBOWLS and thought that was very creative and different. She told me by the language I used and with my bright color selection, that she thinks my specific target audience will enjoy my magazine as much as she did.

She rated my magazine overall a 4-5. She said certain aspects could have been more creative like some of the dishes and I do agree with that also. My dishes I put in the magazine are very basic trendy healthy foods that are popular within the target age group. She said my colors and style of the pages will target my specified audience well. Speaking to Karly was a lot of help for me since she is not in my class and has not seen the entire process go through like my classmates had. I thought she would just be able to give me some fresh outside advice which I am thankful for.