Monitoring Post 31/01/2014

This week I had scheduled to complete the layout of each of my article pages and my front cover. Due to not being in on Mondays lesson I have not yet started my front cover however I will complete that to first draft in mondays lesson and in my frees on monday. I also planned to start adding secondary elements onto each of my article pages and I have started to do so by creating the mastheads, and adding introductory paragraphs onto each of my articles and headers, and page numbers. I had planned to create the documents for all of my products setting up page sizes, column widths and margins and I had completed this in the lessons last week so that meant I was on track to add my secondary elements as scheduled. I had also spent free periods on wednesday to add in layout boxes to show where I needed to place images and text ready to include the secondary elements in the last half of the week. My second photo shoot is today also therefore I will have images to work with when producing my first draft for my front cover and also it will mean that I can produce my contents page also as all of the images I am using on my contents page are taken from different articles therefore I will be able to produce a solid first draft. I will start full production of the front cover and contents page next week when I have some images from my photoshoots to work with. For homework this week I had scheduled to write my third article however due to the closure days last week resulting in less lessons for that week I had re-scheduled the writing of my second article to do over this week for homework, therefore that had a knock on effect of the writing of article three. I would complete the first draft of article two for homework during this week ready to input into the layout of the article when created during this week. I will then complete article three over the next week and in my free periods ready to input into the InDesign draft once first draft is completed. This week I also have other important deadlines in other subjects. My textiles coursework deadline is due in for friday therefore on a night time and in my free periods I will be concentrating on completing that work to conclude the unit as best as possible.  I feel that this week I have been quite productive also as I now have all of the documents set up with the layout boxes in place and the main elements such as masthead, introductory paragraph and basic layers included, this is giving me a good idea of how the pages will look. I will soon be able to input my images from my two photoshoots once they have been edited and the best selected for the articles. Next week I will be making a big start on the front cover to get the majority of elements included, and I will be starting the contents page as it will mainly rely on the images and I will have images from two photoshoots to input onto the page therefore it will start to come to life. I am happy with my progress of production so far.

Monitoring Post - 24/01/2014

This week I planned to write specific lists of the photographs and poses needed in each of my photoshoots in a ticked list form so that I could easily identify all images I need for my production. I completed the lists for each photoshoot I am doing in the first lesson of the week therefore I was happy with that. In the second lesson I planned to continue the photoshoot planning list in the first half of the lesson however I completed all of them before the lesson so it gave me more time to complete the other things I had scheduled. I had scheduled to start setting up my inDesign pages so they were ready to start production on them as soon as possible. I used the first 10 minutes of the lesson to finish off one of my photoshoots I had been doing the lesson before our media lesson, I completed the photoshoot then backed up all of the images in 3 different places to ensure they were safe. I had set up all of the pages with dimensions, columns and margins by the middle of this lesson so that meant I could move on and start including the boxes so I would know where everything is on the page ready to start inputting the text and images. By the end of the second lesson I had completed one double page spread with covering page with the text boxes ready to input my information. This meant that I was on track and happy to continue the start of production. In the third lesson I planned to continue setting up the indesign pages for the start of my production by adding boxes ready to input my material. I continued to do this throughout the lesson and completed the contents page and made some slight tweaks to the 3 page spread I did the lesson before. I was on plan with the start of my production. In the last lesson of the week I planned to complete my monitoring post and start to create contact sheets and manipulating the photographs taken in my photoshoot. I decided to do the monitoring post then continue with setting up the inDesign pages as I do not have the software at home to complete over the weekend whereas I can complete the contact sheets at home and start manipulating the photos at home also so I decided to change that to do as homework or in my possible free lessons ready for monday's lesson. I also planned to start reviewing the material from the photoshoot however I can also do that at home over the weekend.

I feel this week I have been very productive as I have completed majority of the work I wanted to complete and the things I have not managed to complete I have assigned to myself for homework as I cannot do certain things for homework if I do not have the software due to running over time.

New Trends / Statement Pieces Article Info

In my content research log for this article I found the current trends for that month and season, so since then the trends and statement pieces have changed a lot. Therefore I went back online and found out about the new trends and statement pieces which are relevant for now and which I will be using for my real article. I used the same websites I used in my content research log however I have just collected the new information from them. On www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/trends I found out about all the new trends and the ones I have chosen to feature in my article I have screen grabbed for research purposes. They are as follows;

• Moody Blooms
• Wanderlust
• Razzle Dazzle
• The Expose
• Back to Mono
• Come to the Crease

I also found a new website called www.sofeminine.co.uk/fashion-trends to see what the new 2014 statement pieces are and I read into it to find which are the things every girl needs in their wardrobe and they are as follows;

• Floral Fever
• Pick of the Pastels
• Collarless Coat
• Sweater
• Crisp White
• Wide Leg Trousers
• Something Blue
• Boy Meets Girl

I will be using these trends and statement pieces in my article through the text and photography.

Statement Pieces Research - Structure

Statement Pieces Research - Moody Blooms

Statement Pieces Research - Collarless Coats

Statement Pieces Research - Pastels