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The comparison between the two sets of products is big as there was no real structure with my school magazine, this is demonstrated through there only being one column and the text being too big in a unclear font. Compared to my music magazine which has 2 main columns to include information and I have also incorporated another element which the audience will be able to interact with.
Furthermore, my school magazine didn't have any consideration in where the photos were positioned, whereas the music magazine is seen to been positioned in specific places which ranges in different sizes.  The puff used no fireworks skills as it was copied and pasted from powerpoint, whereas the puff text in the music magazine utilised the fireworks tools such as, attaching to path and drop shadowing. Furthermore, due to considering house style in my music  magazine I have also shown the continuity of my magazine. The masthead isn't clear and hasn't used space effectively through being a long masthead without the use of kerning or leading. Also the school magazine's masthead has small white pixels in the text due to the use of the magic wand which makes the magazine look amateur and unprofessional. However, I avoided this in my music magazine by downloading the fonts I wanted on to fireworks or by using the fonts available, this also benefited me as it allowed me to use kerning and leading to maximise the space between the text and letters.

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At the start of the coursework I knew basic tricks with using fireworks while designing and creating my first front cover for my school magazine. I only just knew how to use the basic tools and basic stills to create my school front cover, that is evident through the lack of style and structure in my front cover contents page. It's evident to see how I've improved on the journey through the comparison of each element in both sets of the media products. For example in the school magazine it's evident I haven't remotely considered house style or structure, whereas in the music magazine I have used guidelines and rulers to ensure I made a suitable structure to appeal to the audience while focusing on my house style as a priority to follow the main conventions of a heavy metal music magazine.
On the school magazine, the photography used was very poor and low quality without much planning going into the images so the school magazine images interacted with the target audience less, in comparison to my music magazine image. I carefully planned and considered the photo shoot as I wanted to produce images that were unique and different which fit in my house style. At the start I didn't know how to take good quality images so some images on the contents .  However in the process and through constant planning and through considering what camera shots and angle to do, I have developed my skills in photography.
In relation to the consideration of the text, my school magazine's text is poor, the font of the front cover is poor and not legible. This is just to having a bad font accompanied by a small size and a drop shadow which contrasts with the background. Furthermore, I have developed as photographer because instead of taking pictures with objects in the image, I have been taking pictures against a blank grey wall because it would fit my house style, I have also experimented with different lightings like fake ,natural,  high and low key etc to try get a whole range of images to use on my front cover and throughout the magazine. My skills on fireworks and various online photo editing softwares have allowed me to experiment and adjust the brightness and saturation.
Evidently in my school front cover, I didn't consider cropping the main image, which could've made the magazine more interactive but I left it in the distance which didn't really interact with the audience apart from the visual lead in. I have developed as a designer due to cropping my images so they have bigger and closer to the audience so the audience can clearly see the facial expression and body language which again fits the house style. I have demonstrated the cropping tool in all three music magazine products  to try fit the image in certain space or to follow certain common conventions.
The school contents page looks bare and unprofessional compared to the music magazine as the music magazine has more interactive elements which appeal and attract the target audience. These include the editor speaks section, reviews section, advertisements, and more images etc. Whereas the school magazine shows lack of skills with fireworks like the lack of drop shadow on the masthead and the lack of guttering which mean the contents page has no structure and lead the school magazine to look very amateur.
If you compare both puff texts you can see how my skills in fireworks have developed, the school magazine is very plain and not bold whereas the common conventions are that the puff texts are bold to attract the target audiences' attention. Also the school magazine puff is just a line of text on top of a basic object, whereas the music magazine puff required me to develop my knowledge and learn to use the 'attach to path' and 'flatten selection' tools as well as considering the colour scheme.
The masthead on both magazines demonstrate a clear difference in skills, the preliminary task's masthead isn't very bold or big in size as the masthead is very long in size, also the masthead is pixalated when zoomed into as I only used the 'magic wand' tool to remove the background of the screenshotted piece of text of Dafont. This has developed due to properly installing the fonts or using fonts available on firework  as a result I was bale to manipulate and edit the text as much as I want , this includes the 'kerning' and 'leading' tool to try conserve space while making the text as bold as possible within a given space.
The layout on the music magazine was constantly considered as well as constantly experimenting with the structure , while talking and getting feedback from my target audience as they are who I am trying to appeal to. I also have considered structure on the front cover because I chose to make the important words/names much bigger to give emphasis onto those words. This is reinforced by making them white to make them bold as they are on dark background.
As I developed all of my music magazine I would constantly compare it to established well known music magazines in my genre so I was able to produce a suitable piece of media work which looks professional. This also let me increase my knowledge on common conventions and stereotypes that are positive on music magazines in my genre. Furthermore, I would screenshot my progress and this demonstrates my development and this development is evident on my blog.

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Question 7, Looking back at my preliminary task what do I feel I have learnt in the progression from it?

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Question 7, Looking back at my preliminary task what do I feel I have learnt in the progression from it?

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These are both the front cover and the contents page which I made for my school magazine at the start of the course.