Research FOR Friday's lesson

Ouch. But, for next lesson, you need to have carried out a little bit of research. Nothing too complex, but it will help you greatly with your design - either validating your own design styles or giving you some food for thought.

Here's what you are going to do, again, BEFORE Friday's lesson - so you can blog it.

1. Get someone who has not seen your front page.
2. Tell them that, before you show it to them, they will be expected to write down everything they see - but ask them to write this information down in the order they notice it. It's NOT a memory test so, for example, you ask John to write down everything he notices on your front page in the order in which he sees them, so he writes...
Masthead
Image
barcode
Main story headline
Price

and so on.

Also, get them to say who they think the target audience is and what type of mag it is - give them nothing to go on, not even the fact that it's a music mag.

Obviously, the more people you talk to the better your reseach will be but all of you MUST show and get results from one person.

If you're not sure about what you've got to do, come and see me.

Also, make sure you put a comment on this post so I know you've seen the work and understand it.

Good luck.

I'll see you Friday.