41) FINAL OUTPUT - 1/5/18

This blog post is documenting my final output 'Greenbank', and screenshots of the newspaper can be seen below:

Overall I'm really pleased with the finished newspaper I made, and The Newspaper Club were a great website to make it with. I ordered 10 copies and they all look so professionally made. I decided to reflect on some strengths and weakness of the final output, and these can be seen below:

strengths:

- lots of successful images, especially portraits which was something I wanted to work on improving in this project.

- tried a different style of output (a newspaper) with a more journalistic feel to it, quite different from work I’ve previously made.

weaknesses:

- some of the colours look a tad contrasty, so I should have tried soft-proofing and re-editing before sending it off

- the font is a little big in my opinion, and I think making it smaller would make it look a bit more professional and more like a real newspaper

- the paper is quite thin so I could have paid more for the 90gsm instead of 55gsm.

- I could have recorded more interviews (as well as being more in-depth) with the residents, which would have given me better quotes to choose from.

- I feel I could have gone to do more shoots with the van dwellers and just generally got to know them better over time, as I felt the more time I spent with them, the better my images got.

- one small grammatical error in the first paragraph, I wrote 'sufficienly' instead of 'sufficiently'.

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