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I wanted to make sure hat my magazine created a sense of reality and could relate to my target audience reading the magazine.
Then: With my first set of magazines, it related to some people as it was a school magazine, but I did not really understand how to fully put this across using images and texts.
Now: I now know with my final products how to construct the representation of reality, I did this by the way I presented my pictures, the text and what I wrote on my magazine.
Looking back at my preliminary task, I would definitely change a lot of things as i have learnt so much from when i first started. I would start of by re-taking my images as i could use a proper camera and I have a better understanding of camera angles and lighting so it would be more professional and captivating. I would also have more of an input in what the model is doing as I understand the vision of what i want my magazine to be so it would fit with the style and look more eye catching. I would also plan ahead, so do mock ups of different layouts and designs in order to see what works best, this will ensure that my magazine looks as professional as possible and fits within the conventions of a magazine.

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In terms of how you layout your magazine, how you design in, what fonts you use and the house style is all important as this is what helps catch the readers eye and makes people want to read your magazine. It is crucial that my magazine fits most of the conventions of a magazine to make it recognisable to a reader, although i did challenge certain conventions I stuck to most.
Then: I used to just place my text anywhere in order to fill space, this made my magazine look messy as it was hard for readers to see what my magazine was offering and what was going on. I added loads of extra details on their which made it look un-professional and did not fit with the normal conventions of a magazine which is to always have a set design and layout. I also did not have a set house style, and would a lot of colours on my magazine that had nothing to do with the style of my magazine, this made it look messy and rushed. My contents page on its own, was very plain and did not flow well. It also did not meet the colours of my front cover which made it look messy and it would not catch readers eyes.
Now: With my final products I made sure I payed specific attention to huge music magazines that are very successful such a Billboard to make sure my magazine would look professional and fit the conventions of a music magazine. With the layout of my page, I made sure that the main images fitted in order to make room for the text and for it to look well placed and eye catching, I added a few little extras such as plugs, a 'K' o my contents page and double page spread in order for it to flow nicely and look eye catching to the reader.
I made sure that my fonts flowed throughout all three of my final products, this enabled it for have similarities and show tat they all went together, I changed some of the fonts in order to make certain things stand out and catch the readers eye as these show importance.
I made sure that I had a specific house style which enables my magazine to look professional, catch the readers eye and flow very nicely. This also ensured that I was sticking to the style and meaning of my magazine which showed that I had developed my understanding on how to create a magazine. My house style was yellow, blue, black and white, I made sure I incorporated all these colours on each of my final products in order for it to look professional and catch the readers eye.

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Then: As you can se with my old magazine, I didn't really plan how my magazine would be set out, what it would be about or who would be on it, I just randomly placed names and hope that they worked
Now: with my final magazines, I made sure I made a lot of mock ups in order to see what worked best for my magazine and my ideas, this allowed for my final products to flow nicely as they all went together and made sense

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Then: When creating my school magazine I had little knowledge on camera angles, lighting and the importance of placement on an image for a magazine. I started of using my phone for my main image which made the quality not as good and made it look un-professional
Now: I learnt about different camera angles, lighting and placement on a magazine which allowed for my music magazine to look very professional, I also used a Canon 1200D which allowed for my main images to come out in high quality
For my final music magazine products, I enhanced the exposure on my camera in order to make the light as bright as possible in order for the picture to come out high quality, for the front cover i used a mid shot of my model, with the camera being on the same eye level as him. This was so i could fit it in with the style and theme of my magazine, which is to do with exposure and having nothing to hide.
My contents page I again done a mid-shot using my Canon camera, with the model looking directly into the lens, I positioned the camera slighting to the side, in order to give my model a sense of power, it was high key lighting in order to show full exposure.
My double page spread was took on my canon camera, capturing a mid shot of my model, this photography showed that my model was exposing himself but was not giving him self all away and was keeping some things to himself, He was looking directly in the lens and the camera was placed on eye level in order to connect with the audience. It was natural lighting as I shot the photo outside to create a sense of reality and exposure.

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During the process of my school magazine and my music magazine mock ups, i used fireworks to develop my magazines, there are many things that I learnt on fireworks which include:
Tools
Then: When i first started using fireworks I only new how to use the basic tools which included crop, eraser, Text, zoom and hand. Which enabled me to have the basic skills but not enough to reach my goal of having a professional and unique magazine.
Now: Since using fireworks for a few months, I quickly got to terms with the different tools and this allowed for my magazines to develop and become more professional (picture 3). For example I used the Magic wand tool which enabled me to delete the background of my main image and add another colour in using the paint tool, I also learned how to get the photo, once the background had been removed, to look neat and not be left wth rough edges around it, I done this by using the tolerance button and turning it up in order to make the magic want tool look sharper.
Eye dropper- This allowed me to click on any part of my magazine and that would give me the same colour so then this could be selected for the paint of pencil tool. This allowed me to keep my colours consistent throughout and therefore it made my magazine look more professional
Colour Enhancer- This allowed me to brighten my main image which made it stand out and it showed the whole photo better.
Pointer/select behind- As I did not know what this was before I educated myself, it was hard for me to select certain parts of my magazine and change them, I would always have to put each part for example the masthead in a different tab in order to change the colour as I did not no how to select just one part on my full magazine to change, but since learning about this tool it allowed me to select one image.text and change it without changing the rest of my magazine, which was very helpful as it saved me time.