Production Update Week 4 (DPS)

This was the final week that I had to complete my production and so as I had done the main aspects of my double page spread I now was working on making the final touches, gaining feedback and making any ammendments that I felt were neccessary. Those who gave me feedback and I, thought that there was a lot of empty white space around the content and so I needed to find a way to add more colour and re-arrange the content so that it filled up more space. Therefore I placed some of the text inside of transparant coloured boxes. I kept with the colour-scheme and choose a lighter and darker shade of pink. I used the lighter box to be placed behind the kicker and the darker box was placed behind the breakout box. I decided not to place the introductory paragraph into a coloured box as I wanted to show that it was a different section to the kicker and that it was where the paragraph started. I also added page numbers to the bottom and boxes in the top corners which tell the reader what section of the magazine they are in.

Although the issue had been improved there was still a relatively large amount of white space that needed filling. In order to solve this problem I decided to add another image and make some of the other content larger so that it would fit in the page much better. I also re-arranged some of the text so that it looked more in line and neat. The image I added in was a bottle which I made into a silhouette and then added in devil ears and a tail. This was symbolic of the danger and 'devilish' ways that bottle can act and make you act.

I thought that the white spaces were filled a lot more compared to previously, however I now thought that the boxes looked a bit too harsh. I wanted my article to be a calm and easy to read article because I did not want the topic to come across as boring. Therefore I needed to make sure that it did not look like it was going to be hard to read. In order to solve this I made a small adjustment and made the boxes have rounded edges. Although this was only a small change I think it did help to transform the feel of the magazine to a less serious tone. I also re-arranged the writing and image in the bottom left hand corner because I thought it would look better being split up from the image of the bottle. I also changed the border on the breakout box as I thought that it was slightly easier on the eye to for it to be against the white instead of the pink. It also helped to fill up some more of the white space.

This was the final product that I made in relation to the double-page spread.