The document compares the preliminary and final versions of a magazine content page created by the author. The preliminary version did not follow industry conventions for magazine design, with an unprofessional masthead, poorly edited front page photo, and story text on the front page. The writing was also not properly aligned. In contrast, the final version had a professionally crafted masthead in the proper location, a large front page photo occupying the appropriate space, and only included typical magazine features. The writing was properly aligned and the page was laid out conventionally. The content page of the preliminary version lacked pictures, sections, and structure. The font colors were also confusing. In the final version, the content page included pictures,

1. The mast Heads Differ in terms of care and suitability my preliminary magazine to the left has the magazines title recklessly placed across the top with really un professional writing not following the media magazine industry conventions. The masthead on my final piece however has been carefully crafted to fit the media magazine industries conventions with the magazine title coming in from the left. The Predominant front page photo on my final magazine is big and overcrowding the masthead like Conventional magazines do. Were as my preliminary photo is just placed in the bottom right corner edited badly with parts of background still in the photo it doesn't follow the typical magazine conventions. The story is written on the front page of my preliminary magazine which it shouldn’t be, as this takes up unnecessary space and is not conventional. My Final piece how ever just has the typical features and exclusives as to what and who features within the magazine issue along with the sub-headings. The preliminary task magazines’ writing is not aligned making it look odd and unprofessional. Not following any media conventions for that matter. My final piece how ever is all aligned looking professional and of good quality. The preliminary task was created on ‘Word’ My Final Piece was created on the programme ‘Macromedia Fireworks’

2. My preliminary content page I didn’t really put any effort in to with the layout design. The masthead and writing is rather rubbish and dull, selected of off the programme ‘Word’ on which it was created on. The placing of the writing isn’t very conventional as it’s just placed at the top with no form of arrangement what so ever. Were as my Final finished piece the masthead font jumps out at you and is more pleasant to look at unlike my preliminary. The pictures add more reality and sophistication to the magazine and content page on my Final Piece. As you can see a content page without pictures on my preliminary task looks grey and dull and doesn't help the magazine at all. The Content and page references are written rather boringly on my preliminary magazine, almost looking like a shopping or Argos magazine, Plus there isn’t enough content going for it. How ever over on my Final Piece the page Numbers are written in bold as they are of importance, along with the content on that page written beside it. The Content on my preliminary is sectioned of in to the sections ‘Regulars’, meaning what is usually in the magazine and the section ‘Features’ These are the new juicy content found in the issue. This is very conventional and is what helps sell magazines. Were as my preliminary content isn’t sectioned of and is just placed as a list, which is rather boring and unpleasant to look at. The font colour for the content page on my preliminary I didn’t think about but now looking back I realised that people could easily get confused as it’s the same colour as the title masthead. The Colour of the font I chose very carefully as I didn’t want it to be to bright and confusing. So I had to make sure it was different to all the other colours used