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Looking back at my preliminary task, if I was to redo my school magazine I would change many aspects of it. Instead of having the model wear their own clothes, I would get them to wear a school uniform. This would make it clear that the magazine is aimed towards people who go to that school. I would also get my model to give direct eye contact to the camera. This would draw in the attention of the audience because they would be making eye contact with the model in the image. In addition, I would use better lighting and better camera angles in order to make the images better quality. To add to the quality of the images I would use a good editing software to make the images the highest quality possible. I would also consider the layout more by ensuring to use guidelines and more conventions as they help to make the magazine look professional and appealing to the audience.

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The layout of a magazine is important as it can attract the target audience.
Then: In my preliminary task which was my school magazine, I kept the layout quite simple. This meant that my school magazine did not attract the targeted audience as it does not stand out. In addition, I did not include many conventions which are typically used in magazines. This meant that my magazine did not look professional which also lead to the magazine not attracting my audience as people want to buy magazines which look professional.
Now: In my music magazine I thought about the layout of my magazine and what would be best to do in order for it to appeal to my target audience and to make it entice them to the contents of the magazine. One way I did this was by using all of the appropriate conventions. For example, on my front cover there is a pug which informs the audience of the free poster which they will find inside the magazine. I realised that using the conventions was very important to make a successful magazine that appeals to the audience. This is because the conventions make the magazine look professional. I also stuck to a house style for my magazine. This include sticking to the same colours of white, black, purple, and red. The house style meant that my magazine would stay consistent throughout the magazine. This house style would catch the audience's attention as it does not just stick to the two basic colours black and white. Instead, it incorporates unisex colours (purple and red) which will appeal to both the males and females within my target market. In addition, I understood that it was important to mention popular, well-established artists within the genre in order to attract the targeted audience to the magazine. This would entice the audience to want to read the magazine. Furthermore, ensuring that certain parts of the text in the magazine was a larger font size than other parts of the text was important in terms of the layout. This is because if the names of artists are in a larger font size than the rest of the text, it will attract the audiences attention as it will be what they see first. The image that my model portrays in the images is also important. This is because it can attract a certain audience. Therefore, ensuring that my model was portrayed and represented in a certain way was important in order to attract the correct target audience for my genre. This can be done through the pose, makeup, costume and lighting used in the photoshoot.

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Then: When taking pictures for my school magazine I did not plan out the photos in detail and did not think about important key aspects such as the hair, makeup, costume, and lighting. In result this meant that the photographs for my school magazine lacked in quality.
Now: When taking the pictures for my music magazine I planned out the photoshoots for the front cover, contents page, and double page spread. When taking the pictures I used a digital camera. I carefully thought about the important key aspects such as the lighting, hair, makeup, and costume that my model was going to wearing. Once I took these pictures I edited them on a free editing software/app called 'VSCO'. This enabled me to alter aspects such as the exposure, saturation, sharpness etc. In result I was able to produce high quality pictures.

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Then: During my preliminary task of making my school magazine, I did not use many tools because I was unaware of what some of them were/what they did. This was due to me not being familiar with the software Sketch.
Now: During the making of my music magazine I was aware of the different tools that could be used, what they do, and how to use them. This enabled me to make my magazine look unique and professional. One tool I used was the wand tool. This tool could be used to select and remove aspects of an image (similar to a crop tool). I used this tool to select the hair and face of my model (front cover) and then duplicate it in order to layer it over the masthead. Another tool I used is the text tool. This tool allows me to produce text. On this application I can change aspects on the text such as the colour, size of the text and the font. I used this tool for the text on my magazine. The eye dropper tool is another tool which I used. This tool enabled me to click on any colour on the screen and select it to be used. I used this tool to get the exact colours I want for my text and banners, and be able to keep it consistent throughout the magazine.

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Then: Looking back at my preliminary task of my school magazine I did not take into consideration the layout (and layers) of the magazine in as much detail as I should have. This is because my school magazine does not consider spacing and the different layers of text and features as much as my music magazine.
Now: When constructing my music magazine I took the layout and layers into consideration a lot more and thought about it in much more detail. This is shown through using and thinking about things such as the leading and kerning. Leading is when you change the spacing between different lines of text. Kerning is when you change the spacing between the letters in a word. By considering these aspects it enabled me to change the text to fit the space it was being put in. Furthermore, it allowed parts of text to be enhanced creating emphasis on the different features/cover lines. For example, the cover line 'Interview with Matthew Healy' was altered using leading and kerning. Along with this I changed the pieces of text in terms of the colour of the fill, shadows, inner shadows, size, and whether its capital or lower case letters.
Layering is another important aspect on Sketch when constructing my media product. It allowed me to overlap different texts, images and shapes to create the intended effect. For instance, I put grey translucent banners behind some of the artist names on my front cover.  This can be done by using the 'bring forward' and 'bring back' buttons, or by dragging the feature up and down the bar which has the list of features on the left side of the screen. Another example of when I layered is when I put the head of my model on top of the masthead.

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Then: When constructing my school magazine it was my first time using the Sketch software. Therefore, I did not understand what all of the tools and applications did, or how to use them. For instance, I did not know about the guidelines and how they would help the quality of my school magazine.
Now: When constructing my music magazine I was very familiar with the Sketch software as I had used it multiple times at this point. Therefore, I had learnt about the use of guidelines and how they are a key element during the process of the construction of the media product. Comparing my preliminary task to my final media product, I can see that the quality of my music magazine is of a much higher quality due to the fact that it looks a lot tidier as I used guidelines. For example, putting a guideline through the middle on the page would help me centre text etc. Furthermore, placing guidelines near the very edges of the page helped keep the text/features away from the edge.

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To construct both my school magazine and my music magazine I predominantly used the software called Sketch. During the time using this software I learnt many things which in result enabled me to create a professional looking music magazine as my final media product. Here are some of the things I learnt.