This week, we began our newsletter. I was definitely very happy to be getting back with Indesign. I was also excited to return to something I was slightly familiar with from the beginning of the semester. I chose Disney as my company this time, since they are also one of my favorites and they have some pretty cool and big news stories that I can use. I think this assignment, once I really get into it, is going to be fun but difficult. Knowing where to put the stories, what pull quote to use, where to put the pictures, and so on will be difficult. However, I think it will be interesting and fun to see if I can really do it. While creating my dummy layout, I definitely had trouble not being boring and trying to make it look like my own. Since I barely know what I’m doing, it’s hard to make it look any better than average. Unfortunately, I again had troubles with Indesign. I was able to get a draft going and I saved it as a PDF so that I could see how it looked for real and then make changes, but when I went to go back to Indesign to make those changes, it was giving me an error message. This was a bummer since I feel like there are some easy fixes that I can obviously see, like its crowded and the font isn’t great in places. Since it took me hours, even days to fix last time, I decided I’d just work on it this weekend and go ahead and submit what I was able to come up with and get feedback. I feel like I will be able to make it look like a decent newsletter next week when I start working on the real thing.
