Here's the Sun Vs The Gun Front Cover :

Here is a pic of the finished front cover before it went to print. By using the Sun as the content for the front cover using the layout of Gun Mart the result is very convincing. After working with content and layout I have begun to appretiate how a successfully designed layout is an important factor in relation to the message being communicated effectively. I think the final result is a successful one mainly because we had put into practise what we had learnt from problems throughout part one. Although we came up agianst some problems througtout this part of the project we managed to solve them. Most of them were mainly relating to image quality and fonts as you can see from some of the images and text. Some of the images were of such low res (Probs beacuse of the newsprint they were printed on) we decided to edit them out and replace them with higher res ones. An example of this is when we used the original picture (10 Downing Street Door) from the Sun. It became so pixelated when enlarged that we had to find and use a higher res one from the internet. After I worked on it in photoshop the image was ready to be used. I think that this image works well considering the circumstances although it's a shame we couldn't find another pic in higher res so we could have stretched it to fit the whole cover without it pixellating. However, Despite a few setbacks I think the end result is a successful one.

....and here's a screen grab of the double page article.

Here is the final double page layout of Gun Mart with the Sun's content. This is now ready for printing. I think this has turned out really well and we are pleased with the result. We spent some time making decisions about where to place the headings, images and text within the layout whilst editing some of the Sun's content. I think we have represented the content in the Gun Mart's layout really well.