- Finishing touches to FRONT COVER
- Finishing touches and changes to CONTENTS PAGE
- Finishing touches to HOT OFF THE STREET DPS
- Photoshoot for DARE TO BE EXTREME
- Finish DARE TO BE EXTREME - DPS
I managed to put the finishing touches to my front cover to make it look more professional, and the finishing touches to my contents page. I think that to two now link together better than before and are stronger individually.
I also finished my 'HOT OFF THE STREET' double page spread, after much changing and fiddling with the layout I think that I have finally created something that is appropriate for the teenage audience and something that fits in with my USP.
I did come across some problems with this DPS though. I downloaded Photoshop and InDesign 30 day trials on my laptop at home so I could carry on with the work after college hours (because I was so pressed for time). However I didn't realise that the InDesign version that I dowloaded was the CS5.5, and the college version was CS4. Therefore when I took my work into college on my memorystick it wouldn't work because the software was too advanced for the CS4 version. This was a massive problem because I could do anything more to my DPS.
However, I just carried on with my other work and decided that I would try and sort it out on my home laptop. In the end I managed to overcome my problem and save my CS5.5 version at home (the one I had done all my development on) as an 'InDesign Markup' file. This reduced the file down to the basic text/image layout without all of the advanced software attachments that meant it wouldn't work on the college computers.
Thursday night was the night of my 'Dare to Be' photoshoot. I prepared the flash kit and travelled up to the climbing wall. Before I went I realised that I had another problem! I had my model, the flash kit and myself to do the photography, but I had no one to belay my model as she climbed. I went on facebook and put out a status asking for the help of anyone who could belay, and I got in contact with all the people that I knew COULD belay. In the end I managed to find someone to help me, and the photoshoot could go ahead.
When we were actually at the photoshoot I quickly realised just how difficult it was going to be. My model was struggling with posing on the wall and all of the shots looked very awkward. I had to change my origional idea of what I wanted from the photo shoot (inspiration from the ANTM pictures), and settle for something that was more managable.
I decided that we would come off the rope walls and go onto the bouldering wall. This doesn't require a rope and was therefore much easier for the model to pose on. I decided that in order to get an interesting photo shoot I could climb to the top of the bouldering wall, and hoist the camera up in the camera bag safely via ropes. I then sat a the top of the wall and took photos downwards towards my model. This gave much more interesting photos, and there were much easier on my model.
Because I had such a last minute photo shoot I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get my project finished for the deadline. However, I spent only 2 hours creating the rest of the DPS; because I was going for a much more minimalistic feel to the DPS it was less fussy to create. Therefore I managed to do it quickly (but not rushed) and have come out with a clean-cut result, one that I am happy with first time round rather than spending weeks chewing over it like I did with 'HOT OFF THE STREET'.
I feel that this week has gone really well and I have managed to finish everything on time! My schedule has gone completely ignored because I didn't plan or manage my time very well, however I feel that my hard work this week has paid off and all the free periods, lunchtimes and after college hours spent in the media room have greatly benifited me.
No comments:
Post a Comment