Focus Group Feedback (Front Cover)

Today, I asked my focus group to give their opinions on the current state of my magazine in order to get audience suggestions for changes to be made, starting with the front cover:

Olivia- 'It is too symmetrical. Magazines of your genre tend to be focused more on one side'

Megan- 'Reformat the 'plus' section, it looks too formulatic and strict.'

Tommy- 'The photos at the bottom take up too much space, they might work better as small thumbnails rather than larger photos.'

Luke- 'It's good but the barcode needs a number and the photos at the bottom should be a lot smaller and the plus section could do with a redesign, maybe a different way of setting it out'