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Front Cover

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Contents Page

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My main cover line on my prelim front cover is very long and wordy, people don't want to read long sentences so in order to attract my target audience I need short catchy cover lines that make the reader want to know more. I made sure that my main cover line for my final product front cover was much shorter and more memorable, as well as making it stand out as the main cover line.

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The photo that I used on the front cover of my prelim had a very busy background which I did not cut out. When it came to my final product I cut the image out from the background because all the magazines that I have researched cut out their main images from the background. This meant that I had more space around my main image for cover lines and it looked generally more professional.

I put strokes on all the cover lines on my prelim and although this followed my house style, it was quite simple and I didn't use many other effects. On my final product there are different effects on almost every different part including:
- Strokes
- Drop shadows
- Colour, pattern and gradient overlays
- Inner and outer glows

I didn't show many editing skills on my prelim as I didn't edit any of my images. I took the images using my iPhone and the difference in quality showed when put next to the photos I took for my final product, which I took using a DSLR camera.

I didn't change any of the fonts on my prelim to make them more exciting to read, so I made sure to use a variety of interesting fonts on my final product. I also didn't change the colour or font of my main feature on my front cover to make it stand out, it looks exactly the same as all my other cover lines. On my final product I made sure I changed the colour, font and size of my main cover line to make sure it completely stood out and made it very obvious which was the main cover line that referred to the artist presented in the main image.

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I did not pay as much attention to detail in my prelim task as I did in my final product.

On my contents page I did make sure the features and page numbers were in line but I definitely don't have enough page numbers on the contents page as there would be many more pages than that. On my final contents page I made sure every feature and page number lined up. I included page number to 80 as this is a similar number of pages to the magazines that I looked at during my research.

My contents page on my prelim does not have a page number itself whereas my final contents page does because all the contents pages I looked at also had page numbers. On my prelim contents page I listed the features but on my final product, underneath each feature I wrote a brief summary so that the reader knew straight away what each article and feature were about before they started reading it. This can make it more likely for people to buy the magazine because they knew if they were interested in the article or not without having to read the whole thing.

I only used a couple of simple fonts in my prelim task but for my final product I used a variety of fonts that stood out to my target audience. On both my prelim and final product I made sure to use the same font for the masthead and title on my contents page in order to continue a house style.

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Before creating my final product I did surveys and received audience feedback on a variety of title, slogan and cover line ideas to see what kind of features my target audience looked for in a magazine.

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Before making my final product, I drew out flat plans of what I wanted my front cover, contents page and double page spread to look like. This made it a lot easier to get started on photoshop as I had a clear plan and knew what I was doing.

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I didn't really make any kind of plan before creating my prelim, I just started straight away.

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I did not get feedback for my prelim, so when I started my final product and got a lot of feedback, I learnt how to take constructive criticism in a positive way and use it to improve my work.

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I only used one person on the cover of my final product; and when taking the photos I had Dalya position herself so that she was taking up enough space on the page that there wouldn't be dead space, but not too much that there wouldn't be room for cover lines. I chose to use a mid-shot because it worked for my prelim and was the perfect shot type for the style of my magazine.

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I didn't plan to have 2 people on the cover of my prelim and as a result, there was not much room around the main image for cover lines. The background is very busy, and I did not cut the image out which resulted in a lot of wasted space at the top of the page because I could not put a cover line there as it would be difficult to read.

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I chose the font for my masthead based on audience feedback; although I didn't use the font that the audience chose as their favourite, I used one that was similar. My masthead is big and takes up the width of the page and is a light colour against a dark background so that it stands out.

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Although the masthead does stand out, its quite small and the colour doesn't stand out as much against such a busy background.

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My final product has a simple yet sophisticated colour scheme which gives the magazine a more mature feel. I chose not to use the same colour scheme as my prelim because a pop magazine needs to look bright and exciting to attract my target audience and the darker colours used in my prelim did not have the same effect. I also chose to include some pink because it is a convention of a pop magazine to have pink in the colour scheme if the primary target audience is female.

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When I was creating my preliminary task, I had only just started learning how to use Photoshop so I hadn’t developed my skills. My prelim is very minimalistic, using a simple colour scheme of only 3 colours.

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Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression?

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Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression?

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Contents Page

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Front Cover