Preliminary Front Cover & Contents

Above is my preliminary front page and contents page

Similarities

· IMAGES

- No eye contact is maintained by any of the models, due to the fact that it is a school magazine and the audience prefers to see the students engaged in work

- Both pages contains images of sixth form students

· TEXT

- The font used for the ‘summer edition’ on the front cover, is the same font used for the ‘contents....’ title, on the contents page. This is also the same font used for the subheading ‘what’s what in Wilmington’ on the front cover

· LAYOUT

- Both of the title are situated at the top of the page, and the alignment is cantered

· COLOUR

- The colours used for the headlines in the contents page, have been taken from the school logo colours.

Differences

· IMAGES

- Only the contents page contains images of secondary school children. So customers could think that the magazine is just a sixth form magazine.

- None of the images are the same shape or size

· TEXT

- The fonts used for the titles are different fonts

- The masthead is an entirely different font form any other font used

- Some of the white text on the front cover is slightly hard to read, whereas all the text on the contents page uses clear fonts, on a white background.

· LAYOUT

- The background of the front cover is occupied by one image, whereas the contents page background is a plain white background.

- There is a clear border around the contents page, but there is no border around the front cover, and the text at the bottom of the page is very near to the edge of the page

- The text is in columns for the contents page, whereas the text shows no alignment on the front cover.

· COLOUR

- The colours used on the front cover are not coordinated; there is use of black, white, red, pale pink, pale blue, fuchsia pink, turquoise blue, grey, maroon and yellow. The contents page, however, differs from this and is more coordinated. All the colours used are maroon, black and blue, with the exception of the title, which is purple

Comments

The house style of the two documents is not shown very well, as there are so many differences, between the two documents. If I were to do this again, I would attempt to improve the house style use, so that it was more obvious and identifiable to the reader. Also, the white text used is not very easy to read, so I would either put boxes behind them, or change the colour. Also the text at the bottom of the page does not look very professional, because it is left justified, and is extremely close to the edge of the page. This is not sensible for a front cover. This is because the front cover will be slightly folded over, because there will be a back cover to the magazine so therefore, this text would be quite hard to read. Also I would centre align the text so that it gives more of a statement, and looks more important.

Overall, I like the front cover of my preliminary, but it could do with a lot of improvement now that I recognise how to sue Photoshop properly. I do not, however, like the contents page as I feel it looks too dull.