The document compares the author's preliminary magazine cover to their music magazine cover. They believe the music magazine cover is more effective due to its use of bold, capitalized letters for the masthead against a dark background. The preliminary cover has issues like cover lines that do not stand out and a background image that clashes with the central photograph. In contrast, the music magazine cover has bigger, bolder cover lines and an image size and colors that are more suitable for the cover design.

1. My masthead’s between my preliminary task and final cover are
a lot different in the way in which they look. I believe that my
music magazines masthead is more affective because the
colours which are present make it stand out a lot more. I have
also put the masthead in my music magazines in capital letters
so that it stands out a lot more on the dark background. With
my music magazine I have stuck with the traditional view of
music magazines, the colours and the images show that. The
colours which I used on my preliminary task clash a lot on the
background.
As you can see I have
manipulated both of the
The cover lines which are covers in the
present on the preliminary Photoshop. In my
cover are not good at all as preliminary task I
they do not stand out at all. purposely blurred the
This makes them difficult for background image so
the reader to read as cover that it stood out a lot
lines are meant to be big, bold against the background.
and in your face. The cover In my music magazine
lines on my music magazine cover I changed the
are a lot better than my school image from black to
magazine because they are white because of the
bigger, bolder and are in better dark coloured
colours. background. This makes
the image more
affective.
The image on my preliminary magazine cover is not as good as my
music magazine cover image as it has a background which is to busy for
the photograph causing it to clash. The central image is also too small
for a main photograph whereas in my music magazine cover it is the
right size. The colours on my music magazine go better with the colours
on the cover as it makes the image stand out more.