This document summarizes the steps taken to produce a double page magazine spread from February 3rd to 25th. It describes setting up the document layout with facing pages and columns, adding images and headlines. It also details adding an interview, pull quote, standfirst, captions and a drop capital to the standfirst for stylistic purposes and to follow conventions. The production process spanned several days and involved formatting text and images according to the planned design.
2. This first step was done after taking my
photography on the 3rd of February. Firstly I set
up my Quark document to have facing pages
and three columns on each page. This is so that
it would be set out like a real double page
spread article. To start the production of it, I
added the images to the pages. I knew how I
was going to set them out through my plan so I
made the main image large across the left hand
side and three smaller images on the right all
next to each other.
This step was done on the lessons of the 6th and 9th of
February.I then added my headlines, websites and the page
numbers with the name of the magazine next to them. To
add the headline over the main image I made the font
white so that it was visible and I used the font Bronx
bystreets in size 48pt. For the other part of the headline on
the right hand side page I used the font Plane crash at size
44pt. I added the website to the left hand corner of the
page and the right hand corner. On the left I had to make it
white so it was still visible on top of the image and on the
right I kept it black. I did this aswell with the page numbers
and magazine name next to it. For the website I used the
font bronx bystreets at size 11pt. For the page numbers
with magazine name next to them I used the font bronx
bystreets at size 10pt.
3. This step of construction was done on the 14th of
February. I added four thick lines going across the right
hand page. I made them bright green. I put them there
so the right hand side of the page would look more
filled as I was worried it would appear empty and
boring. I also added them and made them green
because I wanted the double page spread to continue
with the green house style that is occurring throughout
my products.
This step was done on the 19th of February. I then
added the interview that I conducted to the right
hand side page. I did this interview and it fit equally
into the three columns. For the questions that I asked
I put these in a slightly more bold font of bronx
bystreets at size 10pt and then the answer to the
question in the font Arial at 9size pt. I did this
because I wanted the question and answer to be
clearly defined on the interview and it also made the
text look better and more interesting. I also added a
pull-quote in the middle of the interview. This is
where you take a quote from what the interviewed
has said and you make it stand out above the other
text. I did this and made the quote in the font Plane
crash at size 12pt in a green colour, to stand out as a
successful pull quote and also continue with the
house style of my products and also the colour the
scheme of the double page spread itself.
4. I did this part of construction on the 22nd of February. I
then added a stand first which included a drop capital.
The standfirst is there to introduce what the article is
going to be about and it did this for me. I placed it just
above the article and below the second headline. I
used the font Bronx bystreets in size 13pt for this. I did
this because the stand first needs to stand out and be
larger than the interview if it is to follow codes and
conventions. I also added the captions to the images
just underneath them in a small font size of 9pt in Arial.
I did this part of construction on the 25th of February.
I included a drop capital to the standfirst. I did this
because it follows codes and conventions and in my
opinion makes the text look better and more
interesting as it adds an other dynamic to it. I added
the drop capital by making a text box close to the
standfirst and writing the first letter of the standfirst
into this text box instead of the standfirst text box
and I made the letter in a bigger font still bronx
bystreets though but the size was 48pt.