Articles

I (Amber) was given the article about Leanne's business Lelly Jewellery to write. I thought of a few questions to ask Leanne and I then sent them to her in an email, Leanne then answered all the questions and sent them back to me so I could start on the article. I had asked quite a few questions and therefore got a lot of text for the answers. I started writing the article and realised that it was going to be extremely lengthy, once I had completed the magazine I sent it to Leanne to proof read and to put it onto the page layout. Once Leanne had proof read it she emailed me saying it was too long and that it needed shortening. I got straight to work shortening the article and sent it back, unfortunately it was still to long, I ended up shortening it 5-6 times. I really didn't think I could shorten it anymore without taking a question out so Leanne had the idea of getting Tom (Leanne's boyfriend) to have a look at it. Tom then had a go of writing the article again with the information and text I had sent to them. 

First Try

Last Try

Re shoot

Once after the front cover shoot, the pictures were just not up to scratch. They were weak and did not like the lighting, it was a tough choice to see if I could Photoshop them to make them any better but it was not possible. So we decided to try a different model and try different locations and take a risk, as playing safe did not work for us. Even though the clothes we used in the 1st shoot were from mayhem and wanted to show them off it just could not happen.




The new shoot came out amazing, we used a plain t-shirt and then tons of beaded necklaces that I (leanne) have in my workshop. We tried 4 differnt locations, my house allyway, wall, graffti and by a lake. She was not a confident model and not done it before however I knew once she relaxed and got in to it I would find a gem in the rough. I spoke to her and said just mess about before and then get in to it which worked well as she started moving in different ways and giving an awesome look down the camera.


There was a few I wanted to use however there was one that stood out so much stronger. Now edited and ready to be a front cover!

Invoices

 As we have gone out to find advertisers to pay for our magazine to get printed we have to send them an invoice which acts as an receipt for their business. I (Amber) asked Nick and Dave about creating invoices, they told me to have a look on the internet which I did, when looking on the internet for ideas on how to create an invoice, once having a look and getting an idea, I started creating my own, I added our company logo and all the appropriate text that I thought it needed. Once creating the invoice I showed Nick and Dave the finished piece, they suggested that I took it down the college shop to get some feedback. I took it to the college shop and asked for their opinions, Caroline the college finance assistant found one of their invoices we then compared the two to see what differences they had and if their was anything that I needed to add. The only thing I had missed off was some text that needed to be at the bottom on the invoice, "Not VAT registered". Once I had completed the invoice I printed a few off so we could start sending them to the companies, we decided that we would send on to the company and also keep one for ourselves so we can keep track on who has paid and who hasn't. 

Pages so far

Over the past few days I (leanne) have been creating the new drafts of the pages. It is working out a lot better compare to the last pages and looks a lot more professional. I have sent them out to advertisers to show its all real and getting very good feed back. Many people have also been commenting on the photo shoot photos that are on our facebook page. I have now created a master document with all the pages on to slowly build it up and have it all flow together, flicking through to see if it still looks all the same magazine.

Budget Problem

When I (Leanne) was creating the master document of the magazine I started to add all the adverts and found out that we had not got all the replies for our adverts and are sure of 1 and half pages worth. I contacted back to people who wanted space but we thought we had run out and hopefully we could get it all back on track. When re thinking this we should of had some one head of budget as its very worrying and not ideal when getting to the art and finding out things are missing. However I think it has made us learn with money mangement and good way to realise its not easy.

The Interview

As I said in an earlier blog we had an interview with Ella from the Cambridge Evening News we were all very excited to see it on the website, Ella told us she would email us to let us know when the article would be on the website. We patiently waited and last night (the 28th) we got an email telling us it would be on the website the next day.

As soon as we got to college today we raced to our laptops to read the article, we were all so excited and proud!

Here is the article:

The link to this article is:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Education-and-Training/Higher-Education/Taking-on-the-magazine-industry-at-Long-Road-28032012.htm

Deadline Day

Today was the dreaded DEADLINE DAY, we have worked so hard and put so much effort into this magazine, and we actually had the PDF's to send to the printers. In the second lesson Nick explained that only Holly, Leanne and I as a team and Jacob had the PDF's to send to the printers and that we would be given an extension till after the easter half term to finish our magazines. Knowing this we took a look at our magazine content and asked Dave to take a look at it. He gave us a few tips and we decided the half term would be a great time to re think the magazine lay out. Holly is off to Mexico on Sunday but will be logging onto Facebook to have a look what we've been doing and Leanne and I are both going to take laptops home and meet up in the half term to work on the magazine.