ANALYSE AND ANALYSIS
For my project I will be using a range of software and hardware. The software that I will be using is listed below:
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Microsoft® Word
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Microsoft® Publisher
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Microsoft® Internet Explorer
- Coral Draw 10 (c)
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Microsoft® Paint
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Pixellite Type Twister™
The hardware devices that I will use to produce my brochure are listed below:
- Hewlett Packard Colour Laser printer
- Broadband internet connection
- LG computer display screen
- Computer Hard Drive
- 3 ½ inch Floppy Drive
- 3 ½ inch Floppy Disc
I will need to use pictures in my brochure and for these pictures I will have several sources. I will use a digital camera and Microsoft® Internet Explorer to download and Copy & Paste from websites. The websites that I will use are listed below:
- http://www.draytonmanor.co.uk
- http://www.tamworthcastle.co.uk
- http://thelambs.co.uk
- http://www.tamworth.gov.uk
- http://www.tamworthfc.co.uk
- http://www.snowdome.co.uk
If an image that I get from the Internet has a copyright on it then I will have to note this in my brochure and explain where the copyright is from. If I have to edit it then will still have to note where the copyright is from to avoid legal action against me.
When I come to produce my brochure I will want to have a big title so I may use a large size font, but I will not make it too big other wise it will take up all of my front page and this will not look very attractive. I will probably use a size of approximately 48. I will also like to use a fancy type but it needs to be readable. I may edit some images to make them look a little bit brighter. I may also put a background on some of them too; this might make them stand out a little bit more.
A general layout of the output that I will produce is pictured in a table below:
(FRONT) (BACK)
As I will be producing a small booklet I cannot draw every page but they will look something like the front page and back page apart from the fact that I will have a little more text to explain the attraction that I am promoting on that page.
To make sure that my work is safe, for if my computer should crash at some point, I will set whichever program I am using to an auto save so that it automatically save my work after every 25 minutes. For extra security I will make sure that anything that I get from the Internet is automatically checked for viruses. Every time I save my work I will also save it to my 3-½ inch floppy disc so that if the file is lost while I am not at school I will have a backup copy of it at home. Keeping safety in mind I will also have to check the disc is formatted so that I do not lose the data on the disc as well as on the computer. If my work is too big for a 3-½ inch floppy disc then I may have to put it onto a compact disc. I will need to check if I can use these discs on a school computer with my teacher because not all of the school computers have CD-ROM drives only few have them.
DESIGN
A general, more accurate design of my brochure is shown below. On the left hand side of the picture is my front page. On the right hand side of the picture is the back page. In the middle, at the bottom, of my picture is the pages of which I will have in the middle. The middle pages will generally look like this. Not all of the pages will look like this but they will be along the lines of that design. Some of the colours may also vary.
I will also use a lot of pictures in my brochure. A few of them are shown below. Underneath them are the websites of which they came from.
The websites of which I got these pictures from are:
I do not know of any copyright on these pictures, as there was not anything noted on the websites and there was no logo on the picture at all. These are some of the pictures that I will use in the Tamworth Town brochure. I will use a few more from other sites also.
On my final product of my brochure I will have a logo representing the town. I have made a logo using Coral Draw 10. It is shown below:
I will use this as a design for a logo because it shows a nice part of Tamworth and the two letters “T’s” are the initials of Tamworth Town.
For the front page of my brochure I have chosen to use the colour of blue. I have chosen this colour because it is attractive. The shade of the colour I shown below:
BLUE
For the heading of my front page I will use the type and colour that is shown below. I will use the colour of white because it stands out a lot over the colour of blue that I am using for the background. I have chosen Copper Black for the type because it is a bold type and it is also attractive.
COLOUR AND TYPE
If there is a heading that I would want to stand out a lot then I would probably make it multicolour and in a banner type of style. I can do this very easily using a program that the school and I have. This program is called Type Twister. See below for an example of a bannered heading:
Obviously I will not use this design of writing all of the time because some people may not like this style of text and they also may not like the colour. This could then put them off my brochure and then they will not get the full benefit of the message that I am trying to get across.
For the background to my brochure, I will use a multicoloured box. I do not want to use to many different colours because of printing costs and it could also strain the reader’s eyes when they are trying to read the contents of my brochure. I have chosen to use a blue background that slowly fades into a white colour. The picture below displays the background that I have made on Corel Draw 10. I will copy and paste this into my brochure for the background;
