36. Minor Tasks - Layout Design

The moment to bring your digipak/poster/film postcard/magazine article, social media page to life, this is it. You've put so much energy and attention into all the ideas and imagined how it will look like. You have all the elements you need, just need to put them together - combine images, with texts written in well chosen fonts, add in graphical elements and brand identity details.

For Social Media Page

You can either create a real instagram/facebook/youtube page, a new account dedicated just for this. In case of music promotion package, name it as close as possible to the original name of the artist, even if you will not be able to have the original name available for the account.

OR - you can create a mockup of the page - of the entire page how it looks like with all the posts, and then separately mock ups of each post separately, with image, comments, etc.

The recommendation her ewoul dbe to actually create a real social media page, it can help you leanr and understand even better how it works in real life, a skill you will need for sure for your own social media pages, be it for personal or professional usage.

Document the whole process step by step by taking screenshots regularly. Explain for each screenshot what and why you did that particular editing.

As you may already know, the editing process can be a very messy one, at least in the beginning. Allow yourself to try out different things, do not settle with the first idea or attempt. especially in digital work there is no way of breaking things or getting to a point of no return, you can always undo :) or just doing it again in a different way from scratch.

* remember to keep an eye back on the major task you finished, make use of it to help you keep a consistent branding all throughout your 3 products this year.

These being said, enjoy the process and seeing your ideas come to life!