Production monitoring blog 29/03/2011

Production monitoring blog 29/03/2011

Progress…

Last week I continued with my magazine front cover. The first day of last week I managed to create boxes, some headings and a mast head. However, the background was cropped out of my main image therefore my current background was bright white. Not liking this, the next day I opened a new photo shop page and imported my main image, but kept the background as it was for the more realistic effect. The final day I imported everything I created on the old photo shop page, but deleted the boxes and put an image in a photo frame style creation with a blue banner going through the front cover.

Not everything ran smoothly. I had to make many changes because I wasn’t happy with what the product was beginning to look like. I have changed the fonts for the mast head many times and I’m still not sure if I have found the one I have been looking for. I spent much time creating boxes and changing the layout, size and colour of them and ultimately I found myself deleting them because they seemed to look silly. After this, I found the progress I made was promising and the current status of the front cover is looking good in my opinion. I was, however, hoping to have completed my front cover and have at least made a start with double page spread, but with the redoing of the front cover, I am now behind. Below is my current ststus of my magazine front cover.

Targets…

This week is the final week for my project as my deadline is the 1^st April. The first day of this week I am hoping to get my magazine front cover finished, as I have created the rest of my headlines and downloaded fonts at home in my own time, to save time during lessons. The second day of this week I hope to have began my double page spread, with the background and images in tact. The final day of the week I will add my headlines, titles, quotes and main article as all of these will have been created at home also, to save lesson time to just add everything in. I will be using all the photo shop and Indesign skills learnt previously.

Contingencies…

I mite encounter more computer problems such as the machines malfunctioning or the photo shop and Indesign software not working correctly. To overcome this, I will have to find another computer that isn’t having these problems.