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One of the skills that I have learnt is how to create a Layout Sketch. I feel that this skill has been vital for both magazines, as it has allowed me to give me a starting point for their layouts. The magazines themselves have changed from the original layouts that they had, the original ones being those developed using layout sketches, as they have developed. The changes have been made to allow the magazines to accommodate different conventions, as well as articles/features, that have been added to the magazine after the original layouts (which were based on my ideas of what, and how many, articles/features and conventions) had been created and finalised.

Overall, I have found that planning has been a useful tool when helping me come up with ideas for my magazine. In addition, planning has helped me with my time management.

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As can be seen, my final products feature a larger set of fonts. In addition, the font colours are different and different sizes have been used to add emphasis. For example, on the front cover, the artist's names are larger than the rest of the coverlines. This is to make it obvious as to which artists are in the magazine, emphasise that and make them obvious, so that if someone saw the magazine on a shelf they would know exactly who was in that particular issue. In addition there are some fonts which are only used one or twice. These fonts are used to complement the article that is mentioned in the coverline.

In comparison with the preliminary task, a lot of progress can be seen. The variety of the fonts is much smaller, with just two different fonts and three font colours being used. As well as this, the sizes of font, for emphasis, have not been considered as well as on the final product. This is clear from the front cover, where the coverlines are written in the same size fonts across the whole front cover, with only the headline having a larger font.

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Layout sketches, to provide me with ideas for layouts, were created for both the preliminary and final tasks/products. However, progression can certainly be seen from my preliminary product to my final product.

The layout, on the final product, uses a lot more of the available space, there are a lot less gaps. In addition, various different font sizes have been used to draw the audience into particular pieces of text on the front cover.

With regards to the contents page, there is a huge difference between the two. Again, I have used space a lot more effectively and other conventions have been included - such as the editor's note and subscription information for the magazine. As well as this, the contents themselves have been positioned a lot more neatly in comparison to the preliminary product's contents page.

Both magazines use a house style that is consistent across the front cover, contents page and double page spread. However, I have learnt how to implement the house style in different ways since the preliminary task. Fonts and colours are the same and consistent to build a house style in both products. However, features such as the usage of red bars and a selection of fonts and font colours (rather than just the same two fonts and font colours) have been used

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For the final product, I created a treatment. This was to help me, with regards to the audience. It set out who the audience were going to be and which parts of music the magazine was going to be about.
In contrast, I did not create a treatment for the preliminary task. This was because, at the time, I was not aware of what a treatment was. As a result, my media knowledge has been expanded since the preliminary task was completed.

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For the preliminary task, a standard mobile phone (Microsoft Lumia) was used to take the photographs that have been featured. In addition, the background of the image on this task doesn't look as professional. In addition, no professional editing was done on these photos, all I did was crop them using the cropping tool on the phone's camera/photos app.

In comparison to the final product, a professional DSLR camera (Canon EOS) was used to take the photos. In addition to this, decisions were made about the clothing of Nate (so that he is represented in a way that is relevant for the audience) and also where the photo was taken (i.e. it was taken against a plain white background, which allowed editing to be done later on).
As well as this, a professional screen was used as the background. This was so that when I came to edit the photos, the background was easy to change or be removed completely (if I had wanted to remove it completely).

As well as learning to use the Canon EOS DSLR camera, I have also learnt how a photoshoot it setup and what a photoshoot is like. This includes the planning that took places before the photoshoot. I have learnt that, for the photos that are produced to be of a high quality and relevant, things such as the costume that the model will wear need to be decided before the shoot actually happens, rather than just take a photo of them while they're wearing whatever clothing that they are wearing at the time.

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Two different pieces of software have been used throughout the course. The preliminary task and mockups for the final product were created in Sketch. In Sketch, I learnt how to position text, as well as manipulate it, and add shapes which were used as banners and pugs. These allowed me to explore with different ideas for the final product.

The final product itself was created using Photoshop. I found that Photoshop was more suited to making the final product look professional. It is clear that the final products look much more like a real magazine than the preliminary task. In Photoshop, I learnt techniques such as editing photos (colours, brightness, contrast), text manipulation (adding drop shadows, kerning, etc) and adding effects to photos.
In Photoshop, I have used various tools. These included the cropping tool (which allows unnecessary parts of the image to be removed, particularly if the camera wasn't zoomed in enough when the photograph was taken). Another tool that I used extensively was the kerning tool. This allows the space between the characters to be adjusted. This tool was particularly useful when making the headings on the contents page fit in the space that they had been given. In addition to this, the tool was useful when it allowed me to make a gap in the centre of the text on the double page spread where the pull quote would go. As a result, the kerning tool helps with the layout and the composition of the magazine.

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My preliminary task was the creation of a front cover and a contents page, for a school magazine. These were worked on at the start of the course, from September-November 2016.

Work started on the music magazine task began in the October of 2016, and a lot has been learnt since then. This can be seen quite clearly in the images to the left, of the final products compared with the preliminary task.