Double Page Spread Construction

27/11/08 - Today I began by starting my article for my double page spread and I did this on Microsoft Word. I managed to include the title and sub-title for the page as well as two paragraphs of the actual article. I didn't finish this in the lesson but as I have a long weekend due to teacher training I will try and do some more then.

28/11/08 - I did not have a lesson today as it was teacher training.

1/12/08 - I continued with my double page spread article although I dind't get far I began to understand how I would need to right my article in order to make it conventional to a real magazine.

2/12/08 - Again I continued with my double page spread article. managed to get further which I was pleased with as at the beginning I struggled a bit with how to start off. The story will focus around Dee as this is the person on the cover of my contents page as this would help and amintain house style as well as making my magaine more conventional as more often than not the person that is on the cover of the magazine is who the main story is about.

I also included something that wasn't on the cover of my magazine which was that the artist may be releasing their own clothing line. I even included an example. I thought this would be a goo idea as although articles are about finding the person behind the cleberity it also shows that cleberities can do other things other than what the media reports they are doing i.e. mary-kate and ashley, started off as actresses and developed into their won clothing line which was where I got the idea from.

3/12/08 - Today I finished my double page spread by adding a little extra to the article and completing the Q&A questions for the star interview, tomorrow I will move on to organising the layout for my article as well as deciding on the images that will be included.

4/12/08 - Today I recieved the necessary feedback for my double page spread and was told that it would be a good idea to include a few more questions as well as a closing sentence to the article. I also looked back at my Magazine Pitch presentation, specifically at the layout design section, I decided to try the first layout to see what it looked like which was where one page contained one big image. On the opposite page was where all of the information was to be positioned, the article beginning and Q&A questions. I was unable to finish the article though and I will try and do this tomorrow. If i do finish it tomorrow then I will e-mail it to my teacher to look at over the weekend so she can give me any improvements I could do. These improvements will be made at soon as possible but if i don't finish the article tomorrow this will be done at the beginning of the week and e-mailed to my teacher for feedback as soon as it is completed.

8/12/08 - On Friday I did not manage to finish the article like I'd hoped to but I did this this morning and sent it for feedback before the lesson began, as this was the case I updated this blog for a bit during the lesson until my teacher managed to look at my draft and send me feedback so I had the chance to improve. These improvements were done during the lesson and in my free time. I also plan to finish these improvements in tomorrow's lesson.

One of the improvements suggested by my teacher was a large quotation to be positioned along the bottom of the image which I thought was an excellent idea.

9/12/08 - I continued with improved today. my teacher suggesting insetting the quotes into the sentence which, at first, i did not understand but it was explained I grasped the idea. As I did this to my magazine I believe it began to look more and more like a magazine. The quotes in the boxes were removed and I'm glad I did this as they weren't very conventional compared to the magazine now. The page numbers have been added but I was unable to make any further changes as the lesson ended before I could do aything further. I will continue this tomorrow.

10/12/08 - I managed to finish the improvements on my double page spread today and the final version I was extremely pleased with. The final vinal is the same as above although the writing may have slightly moved as the changes I made today were very minor and hardly noticeable.

Once all of the changes had been made and it was the best I think I could produce I e-mailed this version to my teacher clearly stating that it was my final version.