My Progress Diary

Week 1
Monday – I began making my blog and thinking about putting things on
Tuesday – I continued what I was doing on Monday
Wednesday – I began thinking about my initial ideas so that I would have something to work on the following days
Thursday – Began making questionnaire
Friday – Finished questionnaire and gave it to a few people. Filmed myself giving one

Week 2

Monday – Started making my front cover draft. Putting all of the layout together ready
for my photos
Tuesday – Took some photos for the front cover. The shoe picture then Jordan after school
Wednesday – Started editing the 2 pictures together
Thursday – Had to start front cover again. It had been wiped
Friday – Started contents page. Gave some thought about what I wanted to do image wise

Week 3

Monday – Finally finished my front cover picture and the finished the layout almost
Tuesday – Started my article for the DPS
Wednesday – Took photo for my DPS and started altering it to see if I could get it perfect
Thursday – Finished article and started to work it into my DPS
Friday – Started my contents page, added lines and base layers to show where my text and images would go.

Week 4

Monday – Started my contents page. Followed my style model as closely as I could.
Tuesday – Took pictures for my contents page
Wednesday – Put the pictures into my contents page and then decided on my contents subjects
Thursday – Added a little extra tweaks to my contents page such as tag-lines beneath pictures
Friday – Officially finished my drafts for contents page

Week 5

Monday – Decided to start my front cover from scratch due to critical advice
Tuesday – Re-arranged the format of my front cover
Wednesday – Changed the layout of my DPS and the colour scheme of the writing and the orange bars at the top and bottom
Thursday – Changed all of my contents page pictures, moved my front cover picture and cut and shrunk it to fit onto my contents page.
Friday – Started looking through all of the pictures that I had taken throughout the project and determined which ones I would use as replacement images. I also took my new front cover picture of Jordan.

Week 6

Monday – Experimented with effects on the new front cover page and changed the layout of the front cover text to complement the image.
Tuesday – Just about completely finished my contents page
Wednesday – Kept changing the text layout of my double page spread according to differing feedback from teachers
Thursday – Helped with a friends photos and made a few tweaks to my front page
Friday – Told to alter my front page layout AGAIN by several teachers

Week 7

Monday – Finished everything, DPS, Contents Page and Front Page all with 2 minutes to spare.

Rough Drafts

Rough Cut Teacher Feedback

What do you like about my project at this stage?

Colour scheme
Name
DPS Layout

What could be improved?

Side shot of Mr Convery needs to be removed
Strap Line too thick - bar code in strap line?
Front Cover main image - too different
Images on contents - too dark

Rough Cut Feedback

What so you like about my project at this stage?

3 colour scheme
Front Cover and DPS Pictures
Good amount of information
Good colour scheme
Front Cover Photographs
DPS layout - photo - and colour scheme
Colour scheme especially on DPS. Shoe picture. Layout of contents

What could be improved?

Edit photos - skin
Remove Convery Image
Possibly different font, rather than the same throughout
Text could be changed at "bottom of Front Cover to a clearer font
IND blurry on contents page & front page
Front cover too blocky at bottom
Sandy Shoar changes from front cover to contents page
"Available on iTunes" needs to be removed
Page numbers on DPS
Layout of Front Cover
Differing front cover on contents
FTW?????????

Photo Planning Chart

1
4.03.10
Jordan / Foetal Position, looking worried and moody / I AM T-Shirt

Lamp at the back in order to cast a shadow
Should not take more than 5 minutes to set-up and photograph the individual shoes with the toy in. Editing will take a lesson though.
Chequered Plimsoll Shoe
Very Close Full Shot
2
4.03.10
Jordan / Playing Keyboard / I AM T-Shirt
Churchill Playing Fields
Natural daylight – this picture will be taken in early noon
To move a keyboard and a keyboard stand from the music room to Churchill Fields will probably delay the photo by 15 minutes
Keyboard
Long shot
3
4.03.10
Richard / Hand Gesture /
Black Background
Room Light
Less than 1 minute
N/A
Close-Up
4
4.03.10
Jordan / legs apart screaming playing keyboard
School Hall
Industrial Lights
10 minutes
Keyboard
Full body shot

Original Unedited Photos

This was for the front Cover

My DPS picture, unedited

I cropped out the guitarist because he was too blurry and made the image far too big, this is the only contents picture that I could get to function from my memory stick unfortunately

cONTENTS Final (mistakes redeemed)