Project management and monitoring log - 23rd January 2015

Lesson 2 - In this lesson I stuck to my schedule and made improvements to my first DPS (Your Festival Survival Guide) This consisted of trying to fill any blank spaces the were available in the DPS, perhaps by using a background or more imagery. I was successful in meeting this aim as I altered certain aspects of this, I chose to stretch out the image I used only on the right page, so instead it was spread out over both pages.

My actions went to plan this lesson as I developed my initial layout of my first DPS; gaining opinions from classmates and Becky and looking for more inspiration from other magazines in this genre. However, when writing my schedule, I thought this would take less time to complete; I may be set back from this as I will still be making developments and improvements next lesson.

Lesson 3 - From looking at my schedule plan, it appears that I have not successfully completed everything I aimed to, although I have edited and altered aspects of my first DPS; my schedule states that I should have completed this DPS within this week. I think I was not successful with my first aim on my schedule  due to large amounts of editing I ended up doing (which wasn't planned) which resulted in changing the full layout of the DPS; from this, i now have two versions of my first DPS.

In this lesson I successfully edited my first DPS, making improvements and creating a new version to see which one I prefer. I knew that my first version looked to blank and contained a lot of empty spaces, therefore I created a new version, where the article is all on the right page, instead of being split over both pages (creating more space) I also changed the opacity of my boarder to present more feminine connotations; the other version was too bright and vibrant and may have took too much attention from the article content.

As I have mostly been on Photoshop this week, my production for each lesson is very similar and mostly consisted of deciding what appearance suited the overall DPS best. Currently, my DPS actions are the same as my treatment intentions, as I have not changed anything drastically throughout this; the overall colour scheme, fonts and imagery remain the same.