Once the planning stage had been completed, I set to work on producing my cover for the Victorian. The first stage, take photos!
Photos
At first, I decided to borrow a digital camera from the school library, not having my own and being too late to borrow Mr. Winn's camera. With the library's camera, I set about taking photos of the school; I believe I first took five or six as I would sort out the best from the worst and combine the "survivors" into one good picture of the exterior of Victoria College's main building. The next hassle was finding a willing volunteer to be photographed for the cover in order to fill one of the tasks criteria. Eventually, however, I managed to get J. Hickling to agree to the photos and it seemed like everything was going to be great. With the photos taken, I headed back to the classroom to upload them on to any one of the free Macs left available in the room. Loading up IPhoto, I uploaded the recently taken photos to the EMac, however I soon had to leave as the lesson time had come to an end and due to having to catch a bus I was unable to stay on to do more work. Unfortunately by the time of the next media practical lesson disaster had struck as I discovered that I had lost all of my photos and with no photos I had nothing to do other than fiddle about with the different fonts on photoshop to decided on the best one for my cover. A saving grace came in the form of my birthday 4/10, where I was given my own digital camera and could now take my photos again and upload them knowing that they would be safe. So with only four days before it was due in, on thursday 8/10, I set to work on the cover with freshly taken photos. At last, it was beginning to take shape.
The Second Stage: Completing the Cover and Contents Page
Using a Sepia effect on the photos, I tried to give the cover a sort of antiquity feeling to fit in with the age and legend of the school throughout the years. Even the font was done in a sort of hand writing esque scribble in an aged brown colour which I felt would help sell what I was trying to achieve. With that all sorted and the text written, the cover part of the project was complete.
Next, it was time to set to work on the contents page. Borrowing a copy of the most recent edition of the Victorian to give me an idea on how the contents pages would be laid out, I loaded up InDesign on the IMac. With an idea formed in my head, I placed the Victorian to my side and set to work, going for a simplistic contents page to fit in with the simplistics styles of the cover. Earlier on, I had planned to upload a picture in the contents page, but when I did, I discovered that it didn't fit in with the rest of the layout and removed it. This may leave the contents page looking decidedly bland to some eyes, but I disagree. The production was now complete.
Screenshots
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