Production Diary

WEEK 2:
This week we started our preliminary task which is to create a school publication, a magazine. In this task so far, I have created my flat plan for my magazine, I have posted both a first draft (black and white) and second draft (with colour); I am really happy with my flat plan and with the way I have used most of the space so there is hardly any white-spaces. Using Publisher was really helpful in order to use different shapes to create my layout; Publisher gives you a wide range of shapes, rather than using the same rectangular and square shapes. However, my only dislike about my about my flat plan, was in my second draft when I started to show the theme of the magazine, was I wasn't keen on the colours; the colours in publisher are quite different yet simple, I also find it quite hard to make different colours match together. This is why I chose to stick with blues; I used a variety of blue colours as I thought it would look better.

The next thing I am planning to do in my preliminary task, is to start taking my pictures for the school publication, to upload and place on to the magazine to make it come to life more. Once I have placed my pictures, I will then be able to start writing my articles; I have already written a draft for my main article (the cover story), although I would prefer to capture my pictures first, in order to make sure I am relating images to text; this will make it seem much more organised and professional.

So far, I am happy with my progress and once I start putting the magazine together, it will make me more confident to start my main task, in creating my own music magazine.