ARTICLE PAGE (DPS)
I found writing the article was hard, as I didn't know how to estimate how long it should be so that it fits in the space i had. Half of it was pure writing to introduce you to "The Big Chill" and give you the information side of it, but then i decided that for the right half i would do it in a question-answer format so that the readers are still learning about the festival but are doing it in a more fun way, and its different - meaning the readers won't lose interest from just reading line after line as if they were in school and requires less concentration. The lures were particularly hard to place on it, because i had already written the article i had to try and re-arrange the words to make space for them which took a really long time and was very frustrating. I was quite used to using photoShop by then so creating the boxes was pretty simple, i just had to move some of the layers around so that you could see the smaller black box. Once i had put the text on, i merged the boxes and the writing together so i could move it all at once, and rotate them so they were at a canted angle. I wanted this to make them look like they had just been slapped on, no effort, so that it wasn't too formal, matching my mode of address. I then wrote out the Q's and answers, highlighting the Q's so they stand out and the readers will be drawn to them and i adds a bi of colour what would normally be quite boring look at. I made the highlighted sections and the lures blue so that it would tie in with the blue sky on the cover, as the picture on the cover was of the Big Chill and so was the article.
PICTURE PAGE
The picture page was fairly simple to create, I only had to open some pictures and arrange them onto a page. They were arranged so that the top two went: portrait-landscape, and the bottom two went: Landscape-portrait, so that the page overall looked levelled out. I added black borders around the edges of the smaller pictures so that the readers could recognise they were separate pictures, it made them stand out a bit more and it generally made them look nicer. I think i used a good range of pictures, to show the readers as many different elements of the festival as i could, and give them a sense of what goes on there.
I found writing the article was hard, as I didn't know how to estimate how long it should be so that it fits in the space i had. Half of it was pure writing to introduce you to "The Big Chill" and give you the information side of it, but then i decided that for the right half i would do it in a question-answer format so that the readers are still learning about the festival but are doing it in a more fun way, and its different - meaning the readers won't lose interest from just reading line after line as if they were in school and requires less concentration. The lures were particularly hard to place on it, because i had already written the article i had to try and re-arrange the words to make space for them which took a really long time and was very frustrating. I was quite used to using photoShop by then so creating the boxes was pretty simple, i just had to move some of the layers around so that you could see the smaller black box. Once i had put the text on, i merged the boxes and the writing together so i could move it all at once, and rotate them so they were at a canted angle. I wanted this to make them look like they had just been slapped on, no effort, so that it wasn't too formal, matching my mode of address. I then wrote out the Q's and answers, highlighting the Q's so they stand out and the readers will be drawn to them and i adds a bi of colour what would normally be quite boring look at. I made the highlighted sections and the lures blue so that it would tie in with the blue sky on the cover, as the picture on the cover was of the Big Chill and so was the article.
PICTURE PAGE
The picture page was fairly simple to create, I only had to open some pictures and arrange them onto a page. They were arranged so that the top two went: portrait-landscape, and the bottom two went: Landscape-portrait, so that the page overall looked levelled out. I added black borders around the edges of the smaller pictures so that the readers could recognise they were separate pictures, it made them stand out a bit more and it generally made them look nicer. I think i used a good range of pictures, to show the readers as many different elements of the festival as i could, and give them a sense of what goes on there.
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