Project monitoring week 3

According to my schedule my plan for this week was to

-Complete the ‘How to survive a rock festival’ double page spread.

-Create the layout for my front cover

-Front covers sell lines

-Start adding colours to text

-Overall front cover production

I have been successful in completing all of my aims for this week.

Monday-

In Mondays lesson I completed the ‘How to survive a rock festival’ double page spread. This included touching certain parts up such as making the Download festival logo bigger and fixing up gaps in the text. These are things I got told when I asked a few people from my target audience how I could improve this double page spread.

This I a picture of my completed double page spread for ‘How to survive a rock festival’.

Tuesday-

Tuesdays lesson I planned to start production on my front cover. This started with the layout on Photoshop. I first created the header using the ’28 days later’ font and adding colours black with a red stroke around the edge creating red spikes on all the letters which looks affective on the front cover, suits the genre of magazine and is grabbing.  I then started to add a few sell lines, these being the ‘New and upcoming bands’ and ‘Free CD inside’.

Thursday-

In Thursdays lesson I carried on with the production of my front cover, this included making a circle for the ‘Free CD inside’ to go on. I then figured out how to bend text on Photoshop to go around the circle CD that says ‘Includes some of the newest Metal crazes with tracks from-‘.

Friday-In todays lesson I have been doing my weekly monitoring and am then going to carry on with my front cover more and get a couple more sell lines on my front cover.

My plan for the week has gone to plan very smoothly as I have been calm and got everything I wanted to do done. I wrote on a whiteboard what I was going to have completed each lesson so I could put a happy face if completed and upload onto my blog after taking a photo to monitor my progress accurately. I am feel very confident about getting my project easily finished in time with spare time to double check everything and gain feedback from my target audience in final improvements I could make.

I have developed a few skills on Photoshop such as learning how to bend text, as I was never aware of this before figuring it out on Thursdays lesson. I have been considering colours for my sell lines as they may change when I get my photo-shoot done and my front cover image placed onto my project. I have also added a black background until I get my image as my backdrop is going to be black for my front cover and don’t want to use any colours that may blend in with the background.

I think my client would be impressed with my progress this week, as I have got a clear construction of how my front cover is going to turn out. The completed header looks very eye catching and really fits with the genre. The reds and blacks are very bold and I think my client would be very happy with the header.

The current state of my project does mirror my treatment objectives as I have added all the blacks and red to the header with the bold eroded header. I didn’t include anything about the stroke on my header in my treatment, which has created ‘spike like’ features on it. This was just something I tried while creating the header and thought it looked very eye catching and much bolder than without.

At the current state I am at with my project I am not at all worried and feeling very confident with the rest of my production.