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Post Production 1 - Table of Contents

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I finally began my post production of my magazine and I'm happy to say all the criticism from my classmates did not go to waste. I began by completely revamping my table of contents to a whole new level. I took the advice of "more mayhem" to a whole new perspective and I'm very happy with how this turned out. I included a picture of an old camera I had destroyed for parts and used the shattered glass as the background which has nice sleek shine to it  that adds a lot to the page. I also included a new logo i made a couple weeks ago and blurred it out a bit to make the page appear less static and really seem in motion with the entire scene I wanted to create. I also added text boxes to make them more rectangular and split them into boxes of uneven proportions to make it seem also off kilter and really keep your eyes moving across the page. Overall, I'm very happy with how this turned out and I'm extremely excited  continue working on the rest of my project. 

Peer Review

 This week and last week we all presented our portfolio projects to one another and gave each other feedback on what we saw fit to criticize. I was a little upset with my results but I have some work to do with mine to fully fix it. but mainly along my table of contents. I have to retouch it a lot and revise the background and layout of the page. I'm going to include a list below of all my criticism from class mates so i can discus how I plan to fix it.  One issue was my use of color on my fonts where people suggested I should switch to black text and lighten my pages a bit. On the same note about typography people suggested i use text boxes to make text stand out and Appear more prominent so i plan to include them with my matching colors for the magazine. Thankfully, I did now receive any complaints on my font choice because i enjoy my font and also will continue to use it. My table of contents lacks color as well as more pages and organization. I'm going to use a more chaoti...