We reached the end of our Visual Journalism class and I have just completed my final project. It took me a little over a month to complete this, but I think it came out very well. When I started my sketching back in April, I thought this project would be pretty simple. But I was wrong. Fitting and cropping all the photos, text and headlines was a big challenge. After roughly six hours of creating a transparent map with multiple layers, fitting in the text of my stories into the columns and making it fit on one page, I came out with the finished project. The picture of Lorenc came out a lot better than I originally thought and i converted the raw photo to both .TIFF and .JPEG files. After editing my story and sidebars over and over, I had to do a text wrap so I could fit in the flag of Poland. I made sure that each headline would stick out to the reader and that each story could be found and read easily. Also, I changed the background color of my sidebar about Poland. I believe that the color really makes the map stick out. I also did this becuase my main story and this sidebar are closely related. I used a pullout quote for my most important piece of text and cropped the size of my main photo of Lorenc to really stand out and fit over the two-page spread. I put a lot of time and effort into this spread and couldn't be happier with the result.
