Progress Monitoring- Week 6

Progress Monitoring- Week 6

Monday’s lesson consisted of me setting up my page in InDesign. But before I started to do this I asked my classmate Katie to read my article and check for any errors, as well as give feedback. She approved of my article and said that it was “interesting and something I would definitely pick up and read” (See below for my drafted article written up)

I then went on InDesign and set up my page, including margins, columns and leaving picture space. Like with my health article, I found this easy enough to do, but found it hard to imagine the layout without my images and text. Therefore, I added the article into InDesign, which gave me a better idea. I also copied and pasted the banner shape (which I am using for all three articles, in order to maintain a branding to my magazine.)

Tuesday’s aim was for me to go through my front cover, contents page, ‘Happy Never After’ article and my ‘Ladies It’s Time To Indulge’ article to add anything I wanted to/make corrections/complete the products. This lesson wasn’t very well planned and therefore it was up to me which work I chose to complete/edit. I worked on each of my articles and edited minor things and I would say that this lesson was a ‘catch up’ lesson. However, I now wish that I had my photo shoot on Tuesday rather than Wednesday, as this would have given me more time to complete my fashion article- which I had to rush.

Wednesday- This was the day of my photo shoot and I received a text in the morning to say that one of my models (Hannah) was off college ill. This meant that I had to speak to my reserve model (Katie) and ask her to step in, she was a big help and allowed me to complete my photo shoot. I took about 80 images, which gave me a lot of choice. The photo shoot went well and straight after I created a contact sheet in Adobe Bridge. This can be seen below:

Thursday and Friday consisted of me producing my final double page spread. These two days were work-filled and I found it very hard to finish my product in time- I stayed behind after college on Friday in order to reach the deadline. If I were to do my schedule again, I would move my photo shoot forward, which would give me more time to complete my final article. I did complete my product and managed to hand it in on the deadline. Below are the stages of my production:

These are the edited images I used in this article.

First stages: adding images, text boxes, main header, kicker and the start of my article.

Continuing to add text and quote inserts, also a new image/collage on the bottom left of the page.

This is my completed article, which I finished after college on Friday.