This document summarizes the changes made between drafts and the first production of the front cover, contents page, and double page spread for a magazine. Key changes included adding a tagline to the masthead on the front cover, changing fonts for clarity and consistency, adjusting images and captions for layout, and aligning elements more conventionally for spreads. The goal was to improve readability, balance white space, and create a polished final product from the initial drafts.

1. CORRECTIONS FROM
DRAFTS

2. Front Cover: Mock-up and Draft

3. Front Cover: First Production compared to
Draft

4. Front Cover – First Production Changes
from Draft and Mock-up
• Tagline included in masthead – looked more effective and
is more conventional.
• Coverline with competition taken out – didn’t really fit
anywhere.
• No box used around splash – I found that I could make I
stand out on its own by adding a drop shadow and outer
glow
• Coverline on the right is wrapped around image – the
image is larger than I thought it was going to be as
otherwise there would have been too much empty space.
• ‘featuring’ in the top coverline is Lucida Handwriting rather
than Monotype Corsiva – looked more effective.
• Text for top coverline (2015’s newcomers) is Franklin
Gothic Medium Cond rather than Arial Narrow as this font
was not available on photoshop, but they are very similar.
• Calibri used for coverline on the right rather than Arial
Unicode MS which was not available on photoshop.
• Pristina used for ‘The Claoks 2015’ rather than Brush
Script MS – looked more effective and the edgy font fits in
with the Indie genre.
• Font of ‘How 3 Liverpudlians…’ changed from Dotum as it
did not stand out enough. It is also in white rather than
yellow to show a slight separation from the splash ‘The
Cloaks 2015’.

5. Contents Page: Mock-up and Draft

6. Contents Page: Draft – First Production
compared to Draft

7. Contents Page: First Production Changes
from Draft and Mock-up
• Last two stories removed from contents on
the right – not enough room for them.
• ‘$am Winston on Twitter’ added in sideways
next to social media pictures to show what
the pictures represent.
• Medium long shot used of Tom rather than a
long shot to avoid too much white space.
• Font of ‘Louis Del Grido…’ caption changed
from California FB to Microsoft PhagsPa
which looked more effective.
• Photo captions of Josh ($am Winston) in the
boxes at the bottom have been changed to
suit the pictures, and made shorter so that
not too much text was crammed into a small
space.

8. Double Page Spread: Mock-up and Draft

9. Double Page Spread: First Production
compared to Draft

10. Double Page Spread: First Production
changes from Draft and Mock-up
• Aligned ‘The Cloaks’ to the right which is
more conventional of a double page
spread.
• Taken out page numbers from sides of
pages because it is more conventional to
have the image covering the whole
spread – it looked messy to have a white
strip with a page number.
• Rockwell Extra Bold used for title rather
than Microsoft Himalaya which was not
available on InDesign.
• Times New Roman used rather than
Caslon for body text – fit better and was
more easy reading.
• Rockwell Extra Bold used for pull quote
rather than Monotype Corsiva – matches
with title which is more conventional.