As mentioned before, the amount of ground work and research we did in the initial stages of this module made it very easy to make informed decisions and didn't requite much trial and error, pretty much everything that i tried and visualised in my head came to fruition and worked well, wether this was luck im not sure but it really cut down my development stage and development and realisation became one. The main issues came in the printing stage. As i was in a rush the day of printing, i neglected to check my prints before i left and cut one incorrectly. As my print slot was on a saturday , i didn't really have time to rectify this until the drop in session on monday meaning it wasnt possible to rectify the mistakes and meant i had to make do and bind the book as it was. This was incredibly frustrating because of the time that goes in to designing the book and making sure everything is perfect and in the end having to settle for an imperfect version despite the hard work. The phrase measure twice cut ones comes to mind at this time as if id just taken five minutes to look over my prints and the page i was cutting i would have been able to have the book printed as i wanted. However these things happen and ill learn from my mistake and be more careful and thorough in the future. Despite this, had the book been printed perfectly i think i would have looked really nice. I think would have achieved the aim that i set out at the beginning of this brief to create a stylish yet informative book so on that note im pretty pleased with what ive done. Overall i rwally enjoyed this brief, wether it was because of my love of harry Potter or i enjoyed making a publication, i dont know but found the whole process really enjoyable (set backs aside)
I decided to take a chance and re print the incorrect pages however because i was still in such a rush, mistakes were made, in the end i just didnt have enough time to get the book finished how i wanted. Although now all the pages are printed correctly so it gives a more authentic idea of how it was supposed to look.
For the second publication, after seeing the finished publication i think it was successful and i achieved what i set out to achieve. But i think if i was to do this publication again i would screen print it to give it a bit more character and to make more than one, I think that would be really effective. If i had the choice to remove the mistakes i wouldn't, i like the publication a lot more with the mistakes, as subtle as they are.
Overall i think this was fairly successful module however i felt like i didn't have much to write as the ideas just happened and worked, however annoying the problems were, im glad they happened as i was able to learn from them.
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