Project Management and Monitoring Production - 14/02/14

This week according to my schedule, i was support to achieve:

Lesson 1:

For task one I’m going to prepare my layouts for all my DPS’s, cover and context pages. This involves working out my measurements, creating boxes for text and headlines, and saving the document to a save place so that its ready for when I need it. This could take the entire lesson because it’s a long time since I used InDesign and I may need to re-teach myself.

Lesson 2:

For this lesson I’m going to start making my titles on Photoshop. I prefer to make my titles on Photoshop because I feel they look better quality and you can make them look funky rather than a boring font and poor quality. Also I feel its easier to transfer across to InDesign as a picture. I will need to make 5 titles as well as the subheadings that it comes with them. This could spread into two lessons.

Lesson 3:

For this lesson I’m going to finish off anything I had in the previous lesson (Producing titles and subheading). Once all my titles are finished, I’m going to move them across to InDesign, then position them where they belong. This is where errors could occur because I might find once I get them on the page, they don’t quite match or it doesn’t fit properly or guenily I don’t like it on the page. So I might have to go back to Photoshop and re-think the design of my titles, and re-produce them. 

Lesson 4 Project Monitoring & Blog:

(Refer to last weeks schedule because the same again will be happening) This will take up around ¾ of the lesson so to finish off the lesson I’m going to make sure I’m completely happy with the layout of my DPS’s, make sure titles are correct and measurements are right.  

Homework 1:

For my homework task I’m going to start writing the first draft on my DPs’s. This is a really big task therefor I might not get it done all in one go, I might have to take breaks or start again the next day but once its done it’s a big part of my project out the way. These will only be my first draft but once they’re all complete I can get them marked and start to think of my second draft. Because I will have only just finished my re-search it will still be fresh in my head, so hopefully my articles will be detailed and informational. This could take at least a day, maybe even longer.

As well as this I need to remind my models about the photo-shoot they will have the next day, and pre-pare myself for this shoot, get clothes make up and props ready.

Exams/other subject deadlines:

Work commitments and data investigation coursework for English.

This is what i achieve this week:

* This week i didn't quite deliver the finished titles. There are a few tweaks that my teacher spotted to make them perfect. There all saved on both the computer and a reliable memory stick. As well as the tweaking i need to save them so the can be placed in InDesign. 

*I didn't finish the first draft on my DPS therefore this will have to lead on into next week where i will then have to show my teacher.