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.