Progress of my DPS page - 1

This is my first draft of my magazine DPS page. At first I created a blank document in InDesign, based on the measurements of the magazine article I had deconstructed originally. This helped me to kick start the initial process of creating my magazine DPS. From this experience, I learnt about the spacing needed on the sides of the pages and from the top and bottom page, in order to make sure everything fit on, yet didn't look too cluttered or crowded. I planned out the spacing needed between the columns of text which is my article, and also the space the columns needed to have around the edges of the breakout box which I have located underneath.

For the writing in my DPS, I learned all about the use of drop caps, kerning and leading. Drop caps is used for the start of the  article/a paragraph, and attracts the eye of the audience in order to pinpoint where  exactly the article starts at, and looks aesthetically pleasing when scanning over the page as it adds a little bit of variety. The leading of the article is essentially the spacing between the lines of the article, and how wide/narrow they are. The kerning controls the spacing between the letters of the words, and either spaces it out or squashes it up together. I also learnt how to text wrap things (my quote inserts) in order to fit them in the middle of two columns of text, and to make it look more out of place and different, just like the genre of pop-punk. The quote inserts have been text wrapped so the article moves around the quote and doesn't overlap on the quote, or gets hidden behind it. This makes the whole article look more interesting as there are added extras which are very appealing and zone ion the audiences attention.

When writing my article I learned all about how to use colloquial language, different language features, narrative voices and semantic fields. All of these techniques I used in my article in order to make it professional, fun to read and also appealing and interesting/relatable for my target audience. Colloquial language is used as a technique to entice the attention of certain people due to their interests. It is language and terms in which relates to themselves and their interests. When choosing a narrative voice I had to decide what exactly I wanted my article to be about, and when I finally decided on making it factual, I decided to use 3rd person, as I also include quotes from other people, yet nothing is of my own opinion as I didn't want it to be biased. For semantic fields, I picked  topic in which related to my article and started to generate words and phrases in which fell into the topic category, and then scattered them throughout my article in order to keep the topic theme strongly backed up. I also learned about introductory paragraphs, and how certain effects can be created (e.g.; descriptive, question, anecdote, action/adventure, summary, shock/horror).