Project Monitoring Week Beginning 10th February

This week I have been focusing on completing things such as page layouts. I also completed my final photoshoot for my Young Farming article and the images from this worked really well. The lighting on the day I did the shoot initially was very bad as it was snowing in the morning. However the sun then came out so made the colours in the images really rich and the shoot couldnt have gone better. I managed to capture one shot which features a lot of empty space in the sky which really appeals to me. For this reason I think I will use this one image and text wrap my article around my subject-the horse and model. This article is at the start of my magazine and I think it will create the feeling that imagery is a very strong aspect of my magazine right from the start by using one large image.
This week I also created the illustration of the York skyline for my city guide page using photoshop. To do this I got an image from the internet and used the magic wand tool to select certain areas and filled them with shades of purple. I used different shades on different layers to build up the image and I think it works really well. I made the finishing touches to my city guide page so that I could move on to my next page which was my young farming piece.
After selecting my image for this page it was a case of inputting my article onto a page with the image on. I then created a shape around my model and used text wrap to shape my text around the subject of my image. This is something professional magazines often do and I think this is what really makes my page work. I then made my final decisions on my fonts and colours and inputted elements such as subheadings, my kicker and quote insert. This page didnt take too much work and this is how I planned it to be so that I could spent more time on my bigger articles such as my house fire piece. The only thing I am not sure about with this page is that I a blank space in the top right hand corner. I am not yet sure of what I will put into this space but this could be something I create in Photoshop.

Image used for Young Farming Page