InDesign Write up
I began Indesign by putting margins and columns in the set up tab, before opening up the page. I set it to have 3 columns per page. I first created a text box (tool on the left hand side with many other tools) for the top middle of the pages and placed my title inside. I originally used a downloaded font for the title, but due to computer problems, I used a pre saved font for it.
After this, I created my image boxes and placed them where I felt they would look good. I then placed the images into the box and right clicked on it to fit the image with the entire box. I went through the same process when adding a second image in.
I then created my text box in my columns so I got place a large text based document in. When I opened the document into Indesign, I clicked the writng into the first text box. As there was by far enough room for the entire text, I clicked a little red tab that appears at the bottom right of the text box and then placed text in other created text boxes throughout to have all text in.
I found that some text covered one of my images so I had to text wrap it. I had to use the pen tool and click around the image where the text was covering, and after I circled it, I went and found the option that said text wrap and chose an option that looked best.
When my product was complete, I found it to be terrible. I realised that I used no colours, had a background, used different fonts and varied sizes of important words and had no page numbers. Knowing this, I realise that when it comes to my unit 3 production, I can not make the same mistakes again. I also feel that it looks more like a newspaper than a magazine article, and I feel it’s down to the use of images and next time I could create by using one large image to cover much of the two pages and mess around that giving a more magazine feel to it.
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