This document compares a rough draft magazine cover and contents pages to a professional NME magazine, noting similarities in text ratio, sell line content, color use, photo composition, and layout across multiple pages, but also differences such as font choice, amount of dead space, quality of graphic design, specific photo details, and amount of content. Overall, the document evaluates how the rough draft was inspired by but still differs from the professional magazine.

1. Rough Cut Comparison

2. • The text ratio is similar
• The sell line content is similar.
• Font choice is similar on some of the sell lines but
quite different on the masthead and main sell line.
• The colour use is similar.
• Photo composition is quite similar but the space
above head is different, the lighting, location and
angle are similar but the pose is different.
• The theme throughout all 4 pages of the magazine is
similar but could be improved.
• There is more dead space on my front cover.
• Better graphic design is used on the professional
magazine.
• I think my front cover shows that it was inspired by
this NME cover.

3. • Layout is similar however the content ratio is much
higher on the professional magazine.
• My font choice is similar to NME’s, however theirs's is
bolder. The font variation is similar.
• The colour use is similar
• The photography is different by using a different
location, lighting and angle.
• I have more dead space on my contents page than
NME.
• My contents has copied quite a lot of this page.

4. • The layout of my dps is similar to the professional
one as they both use columns, similar images,
quote inserts, drop cap and titles.