Production Log 19 - Improving double page spread

28th January 2014

This week I carried on improving my double page spread.

I firstly finished off editing the extra images I wanted to put on my double page spread. I edited them on Photoshop by removing the background and changing the brightness and contrast of it so it looks slightly brighter than the original photo.

I decided to extend my article so that it is on two double page spreads, this is because I am going to add in more images so it will take up more than one double page spread. I decided to put the new image on the next double page spread. When I placed the image onto the second double page spread I made the text wrap around the image.

31st January 2013

I decided to add change the pull quote and make it bigger in a box so that it fills up more space on my double page spread. I made the box the colour teal and changed the opacity so that it is slightly opaque. I then added in speech marks using a different font from the quote and made it white so that it looks like it has been cut out from the box. I also made the image slightly bigger.

For the contents page I decided to change the font of the captions o the image to the same font as the subtitle so that it is more consistent but instead made it in capitals so that it is different.

Production Diary 18 - Start to make changes to magazine and sorting out blog

21st January 2014

This week I made some changes to my magazine according to some of the feedback I received.

I changed some fonts on the front cover using new fonts I downloaded from on Dafont.com.

For the masthead I chose a more suitable font as the previous one I had was very plain and simple which did not suggest the genre of my music magazine. I also changed some of the fonts for the sell lines so that they were more eye-catching and interesting.

Double page spread:

-I added in the page numbers for the double page spreads as I had forgotten to do so before.

-From some of the feedback I received, I acknowledge that in order to improve my double page spread I need to have a few more images. Therefore I started to edit a photo which I want to use on my double page spread by removing the background on Photoshop.

Also, for my blog I sorted out the production diary posts on my blog by mentioning briefly about each production diary by adding ‘proposal’ for example, so the examiner can see what each production diary is about before they read it.

Production Diary 17 - Sorting out blog labels and audience feedback results

7th January 2014

In this week’s lesson we managed our blogs by making sure we have the correct labels and labelled each of our posts with the correct labels. I added in a ‘audience’, ‘production diary’ and ‘drafting’ label as I didn’t have them before. For some of the posts where they could fit in more than one category I put the different labels for which they go under. I made separate posts for each production diary as previously I had a separate tab but instead I now changed it so that it is sorted by labels.

I also did the audience feedback results which I had collected over the week. I made a Prezi to show the results I got. I firstly briefly talked about how I designed the survey. Then I interpreted the responses I got and also mentioned at the end how I had acted on the feedback I got. I print-screened the graphs from SurveyMonkey and also copied the written responses onto Prezi.

Audience Feedback On Draft