Project management and monitoring log - February 27th

Lesson 1 -
I have now finalized my first two DPS and are now complete (Your Festival Survival Guide and False Faces And Phoney Figures) This lesson I began my third DPS, "Stressed?"I took inspiration for this layout from Company magazine, in order to make a more creative layout in comparison to my other DPS's. For the background of my first page, I used squared paper to convey connotations of work and college/ University; the title and main image are presented on top of this. This is also taken from Company magazine as it uses a creative layout with various layers. I feel, particularly with this DPS, that I have incorporated more skills from photoshop and experimented more than any other pages.

This lesson I have successfully begun my third DPS by applying a background and my article into two columns; next lesson, I intend to continue working on this by creating my title and applying some other smaller images. I aim to make this DPS quite unique and to possess a creative layout.

Lesson 2 - 
This lesson, I applied my article to the two columns in the right page; this didn't initially go to plan as the article actually needed to be longer so didn't fill all of the second column. However, in order to make this page more creative and to contain more layers, I used a post it note image and added more information about websites and further help the audience can go to if they have any problems. Furthermore, I also added a paint stroke as a background for a static to enable it to stand out more for the audience; I feel that this will work in order to grab the audiences attention, being one of the first sections of the article hey read.

Project management and monitoring log - february 13th

Lesson 1 - 

This is my schedule plan for this week, stating that I should be developing my second DPS at this stage. I am creating my second DPS, although I have started with the "False Faces..." article instead of the "Stressed" article. I decided to do this as I have already had a photo shoot for this DPS.

Secondly, I also wanted to go through my first DPS to check if there was anything that needed changing (as I have written in my schedule) For this article, I have successfully created a consistent colour scheme and changed the organisation of the article; by adding an extra image in the right page, this has filled up more empty space; I have created a photo booth style photo strip on Photoshop containing 3 small extra images. Also, taking inspiration form company magazine, I have added small daisies on the outside of the border, so they're overlapping. Overall, I think that this would successfully appeal to my target audience, by conveying appropriate "girly" connotations.


Lesson 2 - 

Instead of working on my third DPS, I decided to begin my front cover. Here is my progress so far.

I am unsure on this as I don't think this particular font (HelloGoodbye) and the colour orange really works. I am going to try them in a different colour, although this may not fit in with the colour scheme. I have chosen this photo as I feel that it represents the most about the False Faces article; it also presents a slight enigma for the audience as it doesn't reveal a lot about the actual article.

I think one of my improvements for this should be to alter the font colour or font of the main sell line "Stress less" as it isn't as eye catching as it should. Creating this, I learnt how to place my main image in front of the title; I wanted it to look like this as other magazines in this genre often present the masthead behind the main image, as well as the professional appearance.

I have chosen this particular combination of fonts, as I am taking inspiration from Company magazine who use a similar style. The Hello Goodbye font is used consistently throughout my magazine (used somewhere within each page) in order to create a sense of branding.










Lesson 3 - 
This lesson I continued developing my False Faces and Phoney Figures article by re-sizing some of my masthead fonts; I am taking inspiration from Company magazine in terms of fonts, therefore I have made each word a different size, width or length, as well as using two different fonts.

Project management and monitoring log - February 6th

This week I was unable to follow my schedule plan as I was absent all week. From my schedule this week I was supposed to continue developing my two DPS layouts (False Faces and Phony Figures as well as Your Festival Survival Guide) although I was unable to continue working on this whilst I was at home without In Design or Photo Shop, instead I decided to create some changes for my front cover in terms of the imagery; instead of using Festival themed images for the front cover to relate to the Festival article, I have chosen to use some of the images from my False Faces article. I have chosen to do this as I feel that this will attract a wider audience range as these photos are more unique.