update... week 11 - review of week 10

so i just knocked off work. its four in the morning... grrrr. I just gotta get some of this stuff outta my head...


week ten was lecture free...
I managed to spend a lot of time on the mag and so did ellena. Its been quite a productive week as far as reaching our proposed content. We have 53 pages and we have dropped it in to be printed again as another test run.

Another test run because...
- we've added magazine adds from other magazines. these were scanned in at 300 dpi and changes to cmyk in fotoshop. Hopefull they will be printed and look exactly like the originals. (fingures crossed).
- we've added alot of images in a section we call the underground expose(might be suBject to change). This consists of a 2 and half spreads of different underground art such as stencils and stickers in the brisbane area. accompanied of a street name where they can be found.
- we've also done a cover with an xray back drop which hopefully will look just as cool in print
they are the main elements we've added... I can't wait to see the print job again!!! hopefully all the adds and graphitti images turn out!!!

Just to explain...

The main reason we've decided to make the underground graffiti element was because we have been quite unsuccessfull in gaining an promotional material from ANY galleries!!! On friday the 21st. I spent about an hour on the phone ringing every gallery on the formention galleries. that was followed up ny an email to all of them. We regquested any digital or physical promotion they could provide.
NONE OF THEM HAVE RETURNED ANY SIGN OF CONTRIBUTING> YAY.
On the upside, pretty much all the galleries said we could take whateva content off their website we wanted So thats cool. Atleast we have that freedom. We could even design some of our own flyers for the exhibit...($$$)

SO... we decided to go underground. PArtly because its part of the target audience we hope to reach and because nbever the less it is an art form... and it is LOCALLY based art for eveyone to see (or ignore).

i like the idea and we found some really cool stuff... most of the images as mentioned have a street name.

Just thinking bout the advertising we've taken from other magazines. Considering this a PROTOTYPE its no problem and it allows us to think more about WHO rather then HOW. We've chosen advertisers that are australian or directly relate to our target audience.

so i think thats it.... we have a couple more pages to make like the galleries and stuff... but we already have most of the information or know where to find it...

Another thing which is cool is that ellena has the same cs2 illustrator! how cool is that... it made this whole process so much easier!!!!!!

so that it for now.
later
d