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One of the skills I have developed and learnt is to sketch up templates for the different pages in my magazine. This was a great help as I could clearly see what conventions and features would work well together and look most appealing before I started to make my products. These layout sketches have also helped me in deciding what template to use and where to place certain information where it would be most pleasing for the reader. Overall the research and planning has been very useful as it has saved me a lot of time I may have wasted making prototype products and has developed my knowledge on what works best for the audience

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I used very different layouts in the preliminary task compared to the main task of the music magazine. It can clearly be seen that I have massively progressed from the preliminary task. In the preliminary task I have used a very basic layout for both my front cover and contents page. I have used most of the conventions however there are a lot of blank spaces and the way the information and blocks of text are placed make it seem less professional. I have also used some very basic fonts and haven't been as creative as I have with the main task, where I have shown progression. This is because I have thought carefully about how to display the different conventions and what fonts would make it look more appealing. I have also improved my template so there aren't many blank spaces and it is presented in a very professional way.

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For the preliminary task I used my mobile phone which was a Samsung galaxy s6. Although the pictures for my school magazine had high quality, they didn't look as professional and had a much lower field of view than the professional Canon camera I used for my main task, taking Images for the music magazine. The pictures were much clearer and I could set what part of the image I wanted the camera to focus on. This made editing the pictures a lot easier and it was presented in a much better way. We can see the difference in picture quality from my previous work on the school magazine compared to my music magazine. Moving on, I also progressed a lot in knowing what angles are best to use and why. For instance, on my school magazine the people used never looked directly at the camera, the pictures didn't really mean anything, however on my music magazine I used close up shots of the main artist lloking directly at the camera in a very aggressive way. This helped the rap/grime genre seem more appealing to the audience. I also used a range of other shots such as Medium close ups, extreme close ups and Two shots.

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For the first task which was the school magazine and the main task which was the music magazine I used a software called sketch.
Sketch allowed me to explore a variety of different features such as:

Editing pictures
Sketch allowed me to crop or rotate pictures I imported. This was useful as It added more precision to my final products and allowed me to be more flexible with how I did it. Sketch also allowed me to add certain filters to my pictures to make them seem more grimy for my genre and more visually appealing for the audience.

Using fonts and shapes.
One of the key features I benefited from was the fonts sketch let me use. I could download fonts of dafont and all of them were compatible for me to use on sketch. This gave me great flexibility and I could work on my products more efficiently without using other software's. Sketch also provided shapes fro me to use which were great for creating pugs and highlighting key parts of my magazine.

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My first task was to create a front cover and contents page for a school magazine. This was completed during the months of September - November 2016.
I started working on the main task which was to create a music magazine in October 2016. You can clearly see how I massively progressed from how my school magazine looks compared to my music magazine