Thursday, 22 September 2016

Evaluation on DPS induction task


Evaluation

For my double page spread I did some research on Neru before I wrote the article. I researched more about other names Neru has as a producer and different interpretations of the songs I was reviewing. Furthermore I looked at some statistics for these songs and I listened to them to analyse them more in full detail. I mainly wrote about the meaning of the songs and why I liked listening to them. I wrote about symbolism and some of the lyrics used in the song to further support the meaning behind the song. I provided an image from the music videos of the symbolism used in the song. I looked at different layouts for double page spreads however due to the excessive amount of text I had I had to stick to a relatively simple layout to fit all the text in.

The skills I learnt on Idesign were how to add text and images. Furthermore I learnt more about the layout of double page spreads and that objects and text need to stay in a certain frame to avoid getting cut off. I learned how to set the whole background colour and make an image fit into a frame proportionately. I also learnt how to do a drop cap for my article on Idesign. I experimented with different text alignments and columns to see what looked best on my DPS.


Something I could have improved was my layout. I could have improved my DPS by condensing some of the text. Because there was so much text everything on my DPS looks very close together and squashed. I felt like I could have added more colour to my DPS as it does look very plain especially with the large amount of text used. I tried to make my DPS stand out more by adding tears falling in the background to relate with the logo but overall it still looked quite boring. I think it would have been better to lay out my DPS with one page having only an image and the other page with just the text and extra images. That way it would be more eye catching and less dull. 

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