Monday, 19 April 2010

The Advanced Portfolio Evaluation Question 4, Part 2-Amie Nelms

Indesign-Review



Concerning our film review for 'Little White Lies' magazine, I felt that my strength and interest was in the layout of the review, and sticking to the conventions of the magazine.
I started off by creating a basic layout, where I roughly marked out each section of the review...


I then added the image of the review, and aimed to find the correct fonts for each part of the copy. I used three fonts...
  • Elephant-for the page number, issue, number rating of film, anticipation, 'enjoyment and in retrospect' section
  • Bookman Old Style for the main copy
  • Haettenschweiler for film title and coloured boxes text

Emma then wrote the copy which I added to the document and attempted to sort the columns out my lining each text box with each other, as there was no column tool on indesign...

Emma retouched the copy, and we decided on the colour scheme of our review, theme, and which issue the review would be from by referring to the online edition of 'Little White Lies' to look at past issues. We then resized the review from A4 size to 24.5cm by 20cm, so it would fit into the 'Little White Lies' magazine...

Photoshop-Poster

For our film poster, we all sketch some ideas to how the layout and image of the poster would look like. Here are my two ideas which I came up with...













From these ideas, we then came up with the concept of the image for the poster. We took pictures when we were on location filming, however we felt that none of these pictures would be eye catching enough for the final poster.



We then attempted to use the pictures off the mac, screen printed from our film-however the quality and pictures just weren't right when constructing the poster.


We the re-took pictures at college, and came up with 3 different poses which we picked the final one.
As Jo was the main person who produced the poster, we all had an input in...
  • Helping to align the text-so it read well and was composed in 'lines'
  • Content-what to put on poster
  • Image-what image to put on the poster; suggested poses

  • Font style

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#!/group.php?gid=111980338820198

To collect our audience feedback, we decided to use the social networking site 'Facebook'. We chose this method because...



  • We had loads of contacts between us, and enabled us to reach out target group
  • Was free way of collecting feedback
  • Easy
  • Use the social networking site frequently anyway-easy to set up group, know interface of facebook, tools etc.

Emma created a group called 'All My Love' and made me and Jo admins, so we can control, view and monitor what the contacts think of our short film.

Here's a short clip on how to make groups on Facebook...



Blogger

Blogger has been an easy and effective way of recording my progress through both my foundation and advanced portfolio. It is simple and widely accessible from home or college which made it easier to record our research, planning and processes. It has helped me understand the format of a blog...
  • Precise bulletpoints
  • Clear headings
  • Images

  • Embedded videos

  • Links/hyperlinks

  • To create a multimedia non linear text

Blogger.com has been an effective way of communicating with my group members and catching up on work missed due to illness, as well as staying in touch with our supervisor (Andrew Mann) who has helped give feedback by posting comments on our individual posts on what to improve on our ancillary tasks (poster and review) and also progress throughout this process.

There's a wide range of things which you can do to personalise your posts and layout of the blog. Changing colours, font sizes, fonts, inserting pictures/videos/links, bulletpoints, bold/italics etc. are just some ways of doing so-this keeps the presentation of blogs simple and organised...and most importantly-EASY TO READ.

Amie Nelms

Posted by Amie Nelms at 15:01  

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