Project monitoring-week 5

Project monitoring-week 5

 This week I started to put all the pieces into place. Both my photo shoots and the photographs that I needed have been taken, both the Darlington and England triple page spreads have been written and photos have been taking now in the last week I am going to be working through all breaks, dinners and free lesson to complete the whole project. This week I have been focusing on my front cover, when looking at other magazines in the same genre I decided that I would base my project around this, when it came to putting the images in the idea that I created did not look professional, an almost thrown together front cover. This week I have fallen behind the schedule because having used the Monday lesson to take the photos for Darlington photo shoot and then the Thursday lesson for my England photo shoot.

With a week remaining to finish the project I will be using lesson time to place and shape all of the article then using the free time I have in and outside of college to put the finishing touches to the articles. The thing that I have found difficult while creating this project was time keeping to the schedule that I set myself, the reason why I have not made a major impact onto my magazine was due to poor decisions.

The pictures that I have taken this week are going to be used in every single page of the magazine, the one article that is going to take time to put together is the Darlington first page, the reason for this is that the photos that I have taken around Darlington are going to be used in a college of images that if someone from Darlington was to read the article they would know each location.  With the England photo shoot the idea that I pictured in my head did not come together as well as I would have liked to, when the props were ordered the wigs did not arrive for two of the models, which had a slight impact on how two of models looked compared to the main focus model. The outcome of the photos wasn’t as bad as I first though because the impact I wanted from the photo shoot was to look like three average England fans, in a way that they were not excited about the upcoming world cup but if they read the article they would change their mind which is why I intent to use a duller image at the start of the article then a more happy, excited look towards the end of the article.

My front cover is coming on just I would like, looking like FourFourTwo I was using the look that they created to base my magazine around a similar idea. With the front cover of FourFourTwo it has a big impact to the reader, using this technique I will create and similar looking front cover.