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Production 6 Final Edits

Finishing with all the final changes I got stuck on one big problem. Changing the font colors. It took me a good chunk of time to figure out how to change the color. While yes, it is a  really simple  task it was harder than it seems. I felt like I was losing my mind just for a color,  since there was just so many different  options  to  choose  from  but when I found the  color it was such a stress release.  Although when I did find the color swatches, I started to play  around to see what the best would be. Changing each  different  work to different color it hit me how I really liked red  overall .  Working with InDesign has really been a learning experience that I will never forget. All these weeks trying and trying  to figure out this new program and seeing how to make the best out of something I had no clue of,  I feel like I have better understanding now. From how I felt and how I ...

Production 5 More Pictures

After importing many different pictures into InDesign, it occurred to me, I need more pictures. I already had a quite few pictures, but I though I needed more of a variations. I wanted a bit more color, so I  talked to my acquaintance who is in Colorguard with me and asked if she had any free period. After a short discussion, we both agreed on taking pictures during our sevens period. During that class period we both went outside where the bus loops is located at, and we both brought a flag out and started to toss it up in the air. While outside we got a little bit of a problem. There were lots of wind while throwing the flags up and this creates a problem since the flags are in fact 6ft tall. It than gets pretty difficult to throw something in the air while there is lots of wind. The wind will take the flag with it to whatever direction that the wind is going to, and it is a pretty ...

Production 4 Choosing Fonts

After figuring out a week ago what specific font I wanted to use, I found another font that I really enjoyed. Birra. Birra has a thick and bold font that I thought would look great with Niagara Engraved. In InDesign, I've been playing around by dragging each and every letter to find the best fit. It was kind of difficult to chose which one I wanted since many of them looks really good with each and everyone. It has also came to me that if you hold ctrl and shift, while at the same time using your mouse to move everything it moves where you want it to go.  If you don’t use the ctrl and click at the same time, it will simply not move and will make everything more difficult to move.  Another thing would be, clicking ctrl and z at the same time will reveres anything that you just did. For example if I would of accidently moved something that wasn’t suppose to move , then I could always press ctrl z to make it go back to what it use...

Production 3 InDesign

  Starting off the week, I've been playing around with adobe InDesign. Watching countless of different YouTube video's and playing around in InDesign, it's been  pretty difficult . InDesign has lots of different features to pick  from, and that makes it pretty difficulty to move everything  around. Since  there  is  many features to  pick from, it can get really  confusing  on what  b utton  is what and  what's  the  purpose  for each of these . This  didn't mean that I would give though. This  actually helped  me motivate myself into doing better. In InDesign, I have been playing around with  all of  the different fonts. Scrolling and scrolling trying to find the perfect letter font, I think I found the one. Niagara Engraved. The way Niagara Engraved look seems like the perfect font for my cover page. Wh...

Production 2 Interviews

Starting off my day, I  got the chance to   arrange  a time to interviews   one of Colorguard  instructor .  Mr. Alfrey was my  main persons that I interviewed . When  arranging  the meeting it was  fairly easy  to  get it done during the school day since  I have his class during the day since he is   my orchestra   instructor.  Overall ,  he had  really good  responds to every question that I have asked  him, and you can defiantly tell he knows what h e's  talking about . He helped me get a better understanding  on his point  of  view all the way from when  he stared  to  where he is right  known  in  Colorguard . It  some kind of way  it helped me open my eyes up and made me realized, wow one little thing can lead up to where you will be in 30 years. Not only that , but Mr. Alfrey make me  believe  how each of us...

Production 1 Pictures

This week's focus was on trying to fine the perfect pictures for my magazine. I started  to think about what kind of   pictures I  wanted to include to make my magazine exact ly how I wanted it to look. At  first,  I really  wanted  to take  pictures  of  other groups at  comp etitions . Due to COVID-19, the curricular has changed and during  content's   it's   rare to be able to watch other  groups,  comp ete .  This is because they want to social distant as much as possible to make everything as safe and clean as possible.  It was  devastating   knowing  that  I wouldn’t be able to get lots of different cool shots of different Cologuard groups  this year .  It than came to me,  I have  many different pictures and videos previous  competitions. Not only do I have pictures of past competitions,  but I also  have pictures  of...