Production Diary Blog 25.03.2013

In this final week I concentrated on completing my DPS. To do this I went on InDesign. As I said the week before I had already set out my DPS. I added how many columns I wanted, which was 3. I also put margins in and I got these sizes for other magazines. I went back and looked at my photos from the second shoot and decided I would use one of these fore my main image on my DPS, but I also went back and looked at my images from the first shoot and discovered one image that was really good and effective; however I there was no room for it on my DPS, otherwise I would be unable to add text and a break out box. So I came up with the idea of adding another DPS of just this image, headline and kicker. This enabled me to put the image in and also create more room on my most important DPS.

I edited all the photos I wanted to use and created my first DPS with only the headline and kicker, which did not take me very long at all. I then added my chosen main image and added that to my other DPS. I the made my breakout box down the side of my page and added some important statistics that I found while doing my research tasks. I put the important number in bigger text and also in a different colour, this was to stand out and catch the eye of my target audience. I then added my article to the page and included sub-headings to it. This was to break up the article so it didn’t look too much for my reader. I also added a drop cap on the first letter and also a quote insert.

After doing all of this I felt that my DPS was still quite plain. So I decided to add more photos to my DPS to try and make it more appealing and exciting. I went back to my first photoshoot again and found three images that I thought would be effective on the page. I edited these 3 images and added them to the top of the DPS above my article and put a border around them and added a slant.

 

Too finish my whole product off I went back and double checked everything on my front cover and once I was happy with that added my front cover to the two DPS’ in InDesign. I then exported all of them together and submitted it.