Unit 14 LO 1, 2, 3 & 4

Name: Andy PattersonCandidate Number: 4113Center Name: St. Andrew’s Catholic SchoolCenter Number: 64135

ContentsLO 1• Rough Sketches (Front Cover) (Slide 4)• Rough Sketches (DPS) (Slide 5)• Final Drafts – Graphic Layouts (Slide 6)• Flatplan (Slide 7)• Prop List (Slide 8-9)o Production Materials (Slide 10)• Masthead Styles (Slide 11)• Font Styles (Slide 12)• Draft Article (Slide 13)• Images of Influence (Slide 14)• Production Plan (Slide 15-16)• Photography Plan (Slide 17)• Test Photography (Slide 18)• Conclusion (Slide 19)

LO 2• Location Recce (Slide 21-22)• Legal & Ethical Issues (Slide

23-24)• Conclusion (Slide 25)

Contents

LO 3• Pre-Production Material

(Slide 27)• Setting Up Equipment (Slide

28)• Production Process (Slide 29)• Original Front Cover (Slide 31)• Final Front Cover (Slide 32)• Operating Desktop Publishing

Tools (Slide 33-39)• Conclusion (Slide 40)

LO 4• Deadlines (Slide 42)• Post-Production Skills (Slide 43-

44)• Safe Working Practices (Slide 45)• Production Skills (Slide 46-51)• Changes (Slide 52)• Final Front Cover Draft (Slide 53)• DPS Final Draft (Slide 54)• Conclusion (Slide 55)• Unit 14 Witness Statement (Slide

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Rough Sketches (Front Cover)

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Story SeparationSeparates story from subject on front cover

Headline“How ‘X’ did better the Sam Smith, Coldplay and Paolo Nutini’s albums” is in bold and in black. The black in the ‘X’ is made to stand out as the album’s title. Black is made to match the colour on the album cover. The ‘3’ in “3 Page Read” is white so it stands out against the blue background.

MastheadThe denotation of the masthead is Music 4 the Mind and is above Ed Sheeran/Sam Smith’s head. The masthead is shown above his head so that he can be seen on the front cover.

Subject ShotConnotes that this is a close-up of Ed Sheeran, who is the artist from my survey that readers will want to see on the front cover.

Headline“When will his next No. 1 be?” is also in bold and black. Sam Smith’s name is in white and also bigger than the rest of the text because he is the subject on the front cover and the main feature in the magazine. The ‘5’ in “Page 5” is also bigger to show which page Sam Smith is featured in.

The colour scheme goes with the design because I said I would have it repeating throughout.

Rough Sketches (DPS)

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Article Title‘The Man Who… What, exactly?’ connotes that this copy is based on the title of the Travis album ‘The Man Who’

Main ImageOne of the first pieces of a double page that is noticed by someone reading the magazine, connotes that the image of Fran Healy (of Travis) is the first thing to come to mind to a reader. The shot of the artist is going to be a mid-shot.

www.music4mind.co.uk

The CopyThe story from Fran Healy/Naughty Boy in detail by the editors for the purchaser to know the whole story about.

Page NumbersWebsite

Sentence StarterConnotes that this is where theContext begins in the DPS

Article Title‘At the hotel… Hotel Cabana’ connotes that this copy is based on the title of the Barry Manilow song ‘Copacabana’

The colour scheme goes with the design because I said I would have it repeating throughout.

Final Drafts - Graphic Layouts

• These are the graphic layouts to both my front cover and DPS. They will both determine what my final magazine pages will look like when they are created on Photoshop.

Flatplan

• This is the flat plan that I put together to demonstrate how my magazine is going to look like on the inside. Each square connotes which page goes where and what they will features.

Equipment Needed to Complete Each Stage

Equipment Needed to Complete Each Stage Continued

• This is all the equipment needed to complete each stage of producing the magazine in it’s entirety. The table shows the equipment needed to put together the magazine and make it look as professional as Q or Kerrang.

Pre-Production Materials

Pre-Production – Masthead Styles• World of Music – Got the idea from different forms of social media e.g. World of Warcraft. The idea is to

get the ready to know that the magazine is mainly about music. It also tells the reader that there is going to be a broad range of music within the magazine by using the word ‘World’. The chosen font is a font I came across on dafont.com called ‘Primetime’ because it is in an old-school style font that Q and Smash Hits both have.

• Music 4 the Mind – Based on ‘text’ language used in different social media. The ‘4’ is meant to be able to connect with young people because it is informal and connects with what young people type on social media. The font could be in ‘Impact’ because it would stand out and catch the ye of someone who is in to music.

• X – Got the idea from Q magazine. The X is meant to mean ‘Xtreme Music’. The magazine is aimed at teenagers and young adults so the informal term, xtreme, might also connect with young people. The font is ‘Travelling Typewriter’, which The inspiration was from how global megastar, Ed Sheeran, releases his music using that font.

• Kaboom! – Based on the name ‘Kerrang!’ which is aimed at rock music. My magazine features interviews with pop and rock artists, so the term ‘Kaboom!’ might sound like a younger version of Kerrang! The font is in ‘Vexler Slip’ from dafont.com, because it has that feel that is similar to Q or Smash Hits.

• Microphone – Based on the classical music magazine Gramophone. Classical music is aimed at adults but since my magazine is for those aged 16-30, this might be used to connect to less sophisticated readers and give information to their favourite artists. The font could be in ‘Times New Roman’ but with less curl effects in the lettering.

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Pre-Production – Font Styles

• My idea of a brand is one that is in a heavy font, such as a font I came across on dafont.com called ‘Impact’, which represents a font that is old-school and retro to the reader.

• Q and Smash Hits both have the same style font as it is similar to the Times New Roman-style font and has an approach to either teenagers or young adults.

• Throughout my magazine, I will replicate my colour scheme into it, and I will do this by using the eye dropper tool in Photoshop to ensure that the colours remain the same throughout.

Pre-Production – Draft Article

• I intend to make the article stand out by differentiating the questions and answers: the questions in bold and white and the answers will be in black and in regular style. The background of the article will be the blue gradient effect that the front cover has on it’s own background.

Pre-Production – Images of Influence

Pre-Production – Production Plan• Date of publication – Often monthly magazines like Q have a cover date of May when you can buy it in

April! Music 4 the Mind will be published on the first day of the month you can buy it• Managing the schedule – If I want my magazine to be produced successfully then I must properly manage

the schedule. Every department has a deadline – photographic shoots need more time to work on than the written editorial which goes with them. Editorial pieces on e.g. Sam Smith are submitted to the editor or features editor for initial checking. The picture editor, features editor and art director work as a team and schedule their departments accordingly.

• Editorial and budgetary decision – The editorial decisions involve the magazine’s editorial team assembling and deciding what topics will be covered in the next issue of the magazine, this is called a planning meeting. Here, the editorial team basically talks about the various contents that will make up the magazine. After deciding which types of article ideas or topics, news stories, illustrations and photographs will be used in the magazine, the team now makes the budgetary decisions. Here, they look at the money that is available to them and how it will be spent towards the production of the magazine. Can we afford to shoot Sam Smith in Cannes or in a London Studio? The budget is decided by the Publisher who combines the cost of the cover price of the magazine, plus advertising revenue, minus staffing and printing costs. What money is left makes up the editorial budget.

• Content Acquisition – There are two major ways that content can be gathered for a magazine. The first is through in-house staff writers and the second way is through external writers that are commissioned to write on topics that are specialist in nature. It is at this stage that artwork and graphics are also worked on. The artwork is defined as illustrations and pictures that are going to be placed in the magazine. Graphics are the pictures or images that are designed with a computer program.

Production Plan Continued• Sub-editing – Sub editing focuses on one major thing, correcting every grammatical mistake, writing

headlines “No longer in the Lonely Hour” and ensuring quality control.• Page Layout – Their job is to typeset and layout the various pages that come together to make the magazine,

this is called a flat plan. In performing this task, they use very powerful Desktop Publishing (DTP) programs such as InDesign to get the job done. It is at this stage that adverts from advertisers are placed into the content.

• Proofreading – The editorial department will print out a hardcopy of the magazine for the sole purpose of reading through to find and correct any mistakes in it. It is easier to proofread a hardcopy than it is to proofread a softcopy. Any mistake that is spotted is quickly corrected on the DTP file. The editorial team keeps proofreading until every member is satisfied that all mistakes have been corrected. The sub editor takes final responsibility.

• File emailed to printer – Before the printing company prints thousands of copies requested by the publication, the company first prints a mock up or “book” and sends them to the publication’s editor for checking once again. This is called the printer’s proofs. If the editor and his team are satisfied with the printer’s proofs, then the green light is given to the printer for mass printing to commence. Each copy the printer prints is the final finished product – the magazine that readers are going to have in their hands to read.

• Distribution – The printing company, having finished with the printing of the magazines will package them neatly and send them to a warehouse. From the warehouse, the magazines are then distributed to newsagents and supermarkets and then sold to the public.

• http://hosbeg.com/the-magazine-production-process/

Pre-Production – Photography PlanLocation Picture Needed Permission

NeededPotential Hazards/Risks

Back Up Plan

Corridor at St. Andrews Catholic School

Man in casual clothes, against a white background, looking sad, away from camera

Need to make sure that the chosen subject has permission to be featured in magazine

Make sure no-one blocks the subject’s way during photo-shoot as the only background will be a white wall

Take a lot of the same image if the first one taken isn’t good enough

By a window at St. Andrews Catholic School

Man wearing a coat, looking out of the window

Need to make sure that the chosen subject has permission to be featured in magazine

Make sure no large objects are interfering the view of the subject during the shoot

Take a lot of the same image if the first one taken isn’t good enough

Pre-Production – Test Photography• These are all the images I took for my front cover. They are all the same and in good

quality but only one could be chosen. It is always important to take more than one image because you don’t know how it is going to turn out, for example, it might be distorted or blurry. I included one of the four for the front cover and made it black and white two make the magazine seem compatible with Q.

• In the end I chose the centre-left image as the one for my front cover and the same one for the top left-hand corner to connote who was featured in the interview I made.

Conclusion

• My first duty was to examine how the process of printing a magazine is done, draw what you think the magazine front cover/DPS are going to look like, what props are used for photography, plan how you are going to take the pictures and choose what fonts you are going to use and see if they will appeal to the audience.

• All of these topics I have covered for my preparing for constructing my front cover and DPS and I will know how they are going to appear.

Location Recce• After looking around the interior parts of St Andrews Catholic School, I

have decided to use a white wall as the background for the subject in my front cover. The reason is because I don’t want to have any other objects interfering with the Photoshop construction of the front cover as I only want to capture the subject I have taken.

• My second image for my DPS will be by the window in the same location as the wall in the first image as I want the subject to replicate the album cover to Sam Smith’s album “In the Lonely Hour”. This, I believe, will capture the subject as a high profile artist in the music industry.

• I have checked the area for hazards and the only hazard I can find the fire extinguisher for the second image interfering.

• I have gathered evidence of the location by taking pictures of where it the shooting took place.

Location Recce Continued

Legal & Ethical Issues• “As free as the press may be in this country, there are still certain restrictions and

limitations that writers must keep firmly in mind. The most important of these, for your purposes, are the laws pertaining to libel, privacy and copyright. However, there are also some pertinent ethical restrictions not governed by law. Ethics are a personal, private matter to be decided by each writer according to the dictates of conscience, but publishing etiquette demands adherence to some basic ethical principles.” - http://www.zeepedia.com/read.php?legal_and_ethical_considerations_for_writers_libel_doctoring_quotes_feature_and_column_writing&b=74&c=44

• I am going to conform to these guidelines by only getting the writers to interview what is going on with the interviewee. However, they are not allowed to write about anything private about the subject in a magazine article for example who they are dating or any false information about the subject.

• Copyright – Copyright is a law that gives the owner of something such as a company logo the right to decide whether it can be used for something. On the front cover of my magazine, the logos for Facebook and Twitter are found in the barcode. I am not allowed to reference them in my magazine without copyrighting them to their rightful owners.

Legal & Ethical Issues Continued• IP – Intellectual property (IP) means that nobody can do something to for example a company logo

without permission from the owner. I will use this in my magazine to copyright anything that does not belong to Bauer Media such as the Facebook/Twitter logos on the front cover. I will trademark my magazine by choosing only original designs such as the Music 4 the Mind masthead. Then I will use an attorney to make my logo used only on Bauer-related media, never by other companies without permission. http://startups.co.uk/5-steps-to-trademark-your-logo/

• IPSO – The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) is a company that promotes the highest professional standards of journalism in the UK. I will use the Editor’s Code of Practice to reflect what other magazines are doing, regarding the times of technology. Through this, I will keep my magazine fresh and appealing to my audience. Accuracy applies to my magazine because it is required to keep up-to-date with its target audience regarding what is new in the music industry and what has happened recently. I want my target audience to know that Music 4 the Mind is always full of fresh exclusives to maintain sales. https://www.ipso.co.uk/IPSO/index.html

• ASA – The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) is the UK’s independent regulator of advertising regulator for all branches of media. They take action against harmful or offensive advertising. I will use this to only advertise what will appeal to my target audience, for example, I have seen Q Magazine advertise Royal Blood’s debut album which is a rock album and my magazine’s genre is pop and rock music so that can be done. I will also make sure that there are no offensive-looking adverts in my magazine. http://www.asa.org.uk/?gclid=COPOr7C87sUCFTPKtAodqhoApA

Conclusion• This learning objective has explained about my magazine being able to assess

locations, risks, and legal/ethical issues relevant to my magazine and finding solutions to any risks or issues identified.

• Throughout this, I have examined the legal and ethical issues in my magazine, such as copyright which will mean that my barcode will feature the Facebook and Twitter logos but they will be copyrighted legally.

• Intellectual Property is an example as anything that doesn’t belong to Bauer will be used only through permission of the owner of whatever is used in the magazine.

• The IPSO will also make sure that my magazine’s content is fresh and up-to-date along with the rest of Bauer’s other magazines.

• ASA will also report if there are any offensive advertisements in my magazine so I have to make sure that there is no offensive looking content in the advertising.

• I feel that if I follow all of these issues, my magazine will not have any controversy from the beginning and should sell smoothly.

Pre-Production Material

• For my flat plan, I used a prototype version for my pitch. However I was asked to insert a completed version for the improved pitch. I added on some more pages and connoted which pages were double pages spreads in the flat plan.

Setting Up Equipment

• Before taking images for the DPS, I had to set up the camera and tripod for a steady shot of Johnny Sheehan and later edit it into the image on the DPS that is now there. This was done at the end of the top floor corridor of St Andrew’s Catholic School because I originally planned to have Johnny looking out of the window for the image on the right-hand side of my DPS but I was advised to change it to a more dramatic-looking image of Johnny looking out to the sea.

Production Process• After I originally tried my hand at doing the front cover, I was asked to make a lot of changes in Photoshop to make the

magazine cover that exists today:o I started off by changing the background from light blue doing having a blue background with a gradient.o The slogan was changed from ‘Interesting Stuff About Music!’ to ‘The Definitive Music Magazine’.o I placed both my masthead and slogan into a white box, similar to Q, whereas before they both would have been

spread across the top of the front cover.o The original subject, Thomas McEnaney looking at the camera, was replaced by Johnny Sheehan looking away from the

camera and was toned in black in white to look more sophisticated.o Before, the headline and main story were small and placed next to the subject but were later moved to the bottom and

stretched out to fill out the width of the front cover.o The cover stories were given strap lines underneath so that readers were given a hint as to what there is to be read,

whereas before they weren’t.o The barcode was originally placed to the bottom right and only featured the publication date, issue number and the

Facebook and Twitter logos. It was then moved to the bottom left of the front cover, made slightly taller but also slightly shrunken and kept the Facebook/Twitter logos but it now had the Bauer logo and a smaller version of the magazine’s logo either side of them. It also had the website address above them.

o Finally, the puff promotion at the bottom of the front cover was moved to the top, next to the masthead, whereas before it was placed at the bottom of the front cover.

Production Process – Test Photography

• In order to add the main image into my front cover, I had to use the quick selection tool around Johnny to place him on to my front cover. I also used Select > Inverse so I could then press the backspace key to crop out any unwanted areas and make my front cover main image professional looking.

Production Process – Original Front Cover

The main image for my first front cover was originally in colour and was smiling at the camera. This was not relevant to magazine of inspiration, which was Q.

The original headline was smaller than before and placed to the left and just piled up. The Page 5 was also removed

The barcode only featured the Facebook/Twitter logos, issue date and price, while the website was outside the barcode.

The cover stories originally didn’t any straplines and the lines in between the artist’s names weren’t equally spread apart.

The puff promotion was originally placed at the bottom of the front cover

The original background colour was light blue but was then changed to a light-to-dark blue gradient as it appeared to be to childish.

The masthead and strapline were in front of the blue background and spread across the top of the front cover.

Production Process – Final Front Cover

The blue background on the front cover was given a gradient to make it appear more sophisticated

The headline text was made bigger, bolder and spread out.

The subject on the front cover was shaded into black and white and re-shot to the extent Q Magazine would have.

The barcode was updated to have more details, such as the issue number, website address, Bauer logo, date of publication, price and a smaller version of the logo

The cover stories were given more detail by having straplines added to them underneath.

The logo was placed in a white box and the strapline is now ‘The Definitive Music Magazine’

The puff promotion was moved to the top of the front cover.

Operating Desktop Publishing Tools

• The following tools I used on Photoshop for my DPS and whereabouts:• Adjustments – Black & White – used in the right-hand side image to make it appear more dramatic,

mature and sophisticated.• Font – Character – used to spread the text out in areas that were empty and make the magazine look

readable to my target audience so the interview would look like there was lots to capture the reader’s attention.

• Gradient Map – used to correspond to my front cover and make it continue throughout the magazine.• Ruler Tool – used to organise every feature of the magazine in a neat and professional way so it looked like

a lot of effort was put into the construction of the DPS.• Rectangle Tool – used to drawn out the spot a square for the subject’s name at the top left-hand corner of

the DPS to present who was the subject of the interview.• Pen Tool – used to drawn out the columns for the interview text would be typed down. I didn’t want to

have the text has one big column or the interview would be unreadable

Adjustments – Black and White• This tool has been used on the image on the right page of my

DPS. I started off by taking my second image of Johnny and placing him in the coastal background. I originally planned to leave the new image in colour but I was asked to tone it in black in white to appeal to my target audience. I clicked on ‘Adjustments’ and selected ‘Black & White’ as one of the selections and made the image appear more moody and contrasting.

Font – Character

• This tool has only been used on the pieces of font in the DPS, such as the article title and puff promotion. It was needed to fill in any empty spaces and make the font stand out. It was done by changing the number (arrowed) to make the text spread out and fill those spaces.

Gradient Map

• The gradient map was used on the DPS to match the same gradient effect on the front cover. I also wanted to make the colour scheme recur throughout the magazine.

• What I did was selected two shades of blue for the gradient then draw a line from the bottom right-hand corner to the top left-hand to make the background for my interview pages.

Ruler Tool• The ruler tool was one of the most important tools used when

constructing my front cover and DPS. It was used to keep every features in the DPS in a neat and presentable way.

• The way I did it was by pressing Ctrl-R and then dragging out blue ‘ruler’ lines to go around each feature of my interview.

Rectangle Tool• The rectangle tool was used to draw certain features in the DPS,

such as the name of the interviewee in the top left-hand corner and the square for the first letter of the interview. Originally the interviewee’s name was not featured and the first letter in the interview was black amongst the blue background in the DPS. The ‘Month in Music’ feature was also added later on to make my DPS similar to it’s primary inspiration, Q Magazine

• The first square was drawn out as a equal-sided square for the first letter of the interview.

• The second square slightly smaller to draw a square out for the interviewee’s name to connote who was being interviewed.

• Third was coloured in light blue for the interviewee’s image to be placed to fit the interviewee into at the start of the magazine.

Pen Tool• The pen tool was used to draw out the boxes where the text was going to be

positioned. For the first paragraph, I had to manoeuvre around the ‘S’ in the black box (drop capital) so the text would be written around the box when the DPS was constructed.

• The rest of the text boxes were drawn out in normal rectangles so the interview would be written out in the style of a proper magazine interview. The reason the pen tool was used was because I wanted to recreate a Q-style magazine interview starting with the first letter of the interview enlarged and in a box. The rest of the text was written as normal but I had to start off by writing next to drop capital because the text had to separated into columns.

Conclusion

• What I have covered in this learning objective is how to be able to produce materials for use in an original print media product.

• I created my front cover and DPS and originally they both would have ended as being less than a pass had I not changed them. I used Photoshop’s many tools such as the pen tool and gradient map to make them stand out and appealing to my target audience. I have also made notes on each of the tools that were used to create the front cover and DPS.

• I feel that I would have failed had I not followed the instructions to the changes and used those tools because I am currently proud of what I have created for my magazine.

Deadlines

• I have met the deadlines provided by Mr Crafts and have been making improvements to the extent that he has asked.

Post-Production Skills

• Adobe Premiere Pro was used to edit and export the videos for my LO 4 pitch and LO 5 interview. Both videos were exported as .wmv files, this was required so that my pitch would be uploaded onto YouTube.

Post-Production Skills• The ruler tool was used to arrange the features e.g. the images, text

etc. into a neat order to make the magazine look professional.• The image adjustments tools e.g. the black & white tool was used to

make the image look contrasting and realistic.• The quick-selection tool was used to place Johnny in the coastal

background. I had to avoid any interferences in the original image I had taken to make it appear like he was taken at the beach.

Safe Working Practices1. Square Tool – Used to draw the black square for the DPS image on

the top left-hand corner and keep the subject’s name in place. This was drawn by making it the right size with the mouse. This is to ensure that the interviewee’s profile image on the top right is placed neatly and not scattered across the top of the image.

2. The Quick Selection Tool was used to fit Johnny Sheehan onto the coastal background by using the mouse and holding down the left key to select him. I had to inverse the selection to crop the outside of the background to make Johnny fit into the background. I also had to prevent any other objects from interfering this process, such as a fire extinguisher which was partially interfering on the right side of the original image.

3. The Ruler Tool was used to arrange everything on the DPS in a neat and professional fashion. It required pressing Ctrl-R to drag out as many rulers for every feature on my DPS. If I was to move an image to a different place, I could move the rulers to different location in my design.

4. The Text Tool was used to make the headline stand out and arranged into the top of the DPS. The steps included placing the text in the middle of its primary location, sizing it and stretching it out to fill in any spaces in the DPS.

5. The Pen Tool was used to keep the text arranged to make it look like a professionally constructed interview. The columns were drawn by making rectangles by clicking on the places to draw make neat lines from where to drawn them. If I hadn’t used that tool, my magazine would have been very poorly designed and would not appeal to my target audience.

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Production Skills

Colour

• The colour on my magazine was made by the gradient tool on Photoshop by choosing a colour for the gradient and pointing it North-West into having the colour scheme that is used for the front cover and DPS.

• I used the Eye-Dropper tool to make the background colour in order to match the front cover colour gradient and my magazine colour scheme.

Fonts

• Dafont.com was originally used to search for a decent font for my magazine but not one was chosen. So I turned to Microsoft Word and I chose Impact as the font for the masthead, headline and article titles.

Quick Selection Tool

• The Quick Selection was used to select Johnny by hovering over him with the mouse and making him able to be removed from his original image and placed into the coastal background.

• I also had to make sure the no other objects were interfering with the quick selection. This could be undone as it had a selection where I could remove any other objects from selection. I felt this was important because I needed just feature Johnny and nothing else in my DPS image, otherwise my DPS would be ruined if the image had other objects interfering.

Black & White• The Black & White tool was also important because I wanted make the

DPS image stand out but not with its colour.• I went to Image then clicked Adjustments and selected Black & White

which made the image black and white. There was also a tone changing tool that popped up after you selected Black & White but I felt that it didn’t require toning after I turned it black and white. What I am demonstrating in this section is that magazine images don’t need colour to stand out and toning them once they’re black and white is optional.

Layers

• Layers were also important because I could then be able to move anything such as text or images in my DPS to different locations in order to make them look better.

• It is also important to have layers because you can edit one specific object once it has been selected, rather than the entire canvas because you don’t want to have the whole thing changed and eventually ruined. It is also not a good idea to merge everything into one layer until it is completely finished because the same thing could happen.

Changes• During the construction of my front

cover and DPS, a majority of changes were made, for example the original strapline, “Interesting Stuff About Music”, was changed to the more mature sounding “The Definitive Music Magazine”.

• The background, before, was just light blue with no special effects. A gradient was added to look more sophisticated.

• Before the text was disorganised and in the wrong font. It was then sorted out and arranged with the ruler tool.

• The original subject, Thomas McEnany, was replaced by Johnny Sheehan and was also tinted black and white to make it look mature and moody.

Front Cover Final Draft

The blue background on the front cover was given a gradient to make it appear more sophisticated

The headline text was made bigger, bolder and spread out.

The subject on the front cover was shaded into black and white and re-shot to the extent Q Magazine would have.

The barcode was updated to have more details, such as the issue number, website address, Bauer logo, date of publication, price and a smaller version of the logo

The cover stories were given more detail by having straplines added to them underneath.

The logo was placed in a white box and the strapline is now ‘The Definitive Music Magazine’

The puff promotion was moved to the top of the front cover.

DPS Final Draft

The blue background on the front cover was given a gradient to make it appear more sophisticated

The subject was completed changed to match the front cover storyline

The iTunes promotion was changed to one of Sam Smith’s albums

The interview was completely changed to make it look like I was interviewing Sam Smith

This was a new feature added to match Q Magazine’s ‘Month in Music’ pages

Conclusion

• This final learning objective is about how I have covered the changes I made to my front cover and DPS, how I edited the videos for my LO 4 Pitch and LO 5 Interview and what kind safe working practices and production skills I have mentioned.

• The production skills practices I feel are the most important because they discuss the importance of Photoshop tools and what they can do to improve on the making of a magazine front cover or DPS.

• I am also using these to anyone who is thinking of making their own magazine of any genre as they will benefit in making them appealing to their target audiences.

Unit 14 Witness Statement

A copy of the Unit 14 witness statement with my signature and candidate number written down