On Wednesday, March 21st, I presented my 3rd quarter submission to the class. After hearing their thoughts, I have a few things to fix that they suggested, and some other things I would like to fix as well. First off, I'm going to decrease the font size in my article down to size 14, as of right now it is at size 18. When I was creating my article I had the screen zoomed out, so the font appeared a lot smaller when I was editing it, compared to when I zoomed the screen back to normal size. Although, when I decrease the font size I know that I will have extra blank space in my article and I will need to fill it somehow. I could do this by either adding more content, or rearranging the layout and adding a quote, or another picture. Another feature I need to alter is the page numbering. I noticed that since my article is a two page spread, appearing side-by-side, the page numbers wouldn't both be on the right side of the page. So, I will need to change this so that the magazine ar...
My flat plan consists of 90 pages, a little over half of those being comprised of ads. While doing my research I discovered that travel magazines consist of numerous ads. Many start out with an ad section, and resort to flip flopping back and forth from article to ad, article to ad, etc. I decided to follow this technique after looking through multiple magazines. While also including a large section of ads in the middle of my magazine, and a larger content section towards the end. I also chose to place my cover story towards the beginning/middle of the magazine because I wanted it to be the center both figuratively and literally. I didn't want it getting lost in the magazine.
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