This is my original preliminary task front cover and feature article. Below is my front cover which is unconventional and bad in many ways as it features too many coverlines with almost unreadable font and colour that cover a majority of the boy's face. The image is warped and stretched too making the mise-en-scene look distorted.
Above is my preliminary contents page which features uncompostioned images, a stretched and unreadable mast head font and a lack of organization in the subtitle and article sections which is confusing for the audience to read and follow.
Front cover-
There were many changes between the preliminary and final task. The masthead was made bolder and more readable and a selling line was added to draw in the audience. The main image was made larger to stop warping and distortion so it became clearer. I reduced the size and amount of coverlines so the image could be seen better and so I could add a main coverline over the centre of the image. I added boxes to the final product to help certain features stand out and draw the audiences attention. I also composed the final product, following the rule of thirds, to make it look more appealing and organized to the audience. The bar code was also made smaller so I could get more information on the front cover. I feel I've learnt how to create a more appealing front cover by developing my Photoshop skills to add new features and improve on the ones I used in my preliminary task such as changing the fonts and adding boxes.
Contents Page-
There were many changes between the preliminary task and the final product. The title was made smaller, bolder and more readable so the target audience could identify the page they're on. I added one main image in the centre of the document and based the text around it so that the page could be organized through the use of the rule of thirds. I clearly labelled each section (e.g "Music reviews" compared to "Technology") so the audience could see what was under each section easily. I used boxes to draw attention to certain features in the final product instead of leaving everything big empty spaces. The font was smaller so that more information could be contained on the page and was made bolder so that it would be easier to read. I also used a variety of fonts on the final product to connote different meanings for the different sections of writing but only used two on the preliminary task. I feel I've learnt how to create a more appealing contents page by using a variety of techniques and conventions along with developing my Photoshop skills to add new features and improve on the ones I used in my preliminary task.
Conclusion-
In conclusion you can see how my abilities have changed and become better since my preliminary task as I learnt to use Photoshop and the tools that it had to offer. The hardest thing I learnt to use were the image transform tools as I obviously wanted to keep the image at a certain resolution without distorting it. The problems with the transform tools can be seen in the preliminary tasks but in the final product you can see the images are of a high quality and scaled to a larger size than the original representing that I used to learn the tool in order to enhance my work.
