Buster Keaton Leaflet

This is my final 'Buster Keaton Leaflet' piece, which was created in InDesign.

What I had to do was create a leaflet from the layouts (pictures, text, etc) provided; I had to edit and input the picture and the text into the same way as the finished product layout (produced by the teacher) by following the steps provided.

I did this by opening up InDesign and then creating a new document (and making the document A4 size, and changing the 'Bleed' to 0.3mm). Once I done that I added 'Guides' to my new document, this was done by going onto the 'Create Guides' option and adding two columns (and then changed the name of the layer to 'Guides'). Then I needed to create a new layer which I done by clicking on the 'New Layer' tab in the layers box, and I names this new layer 'Picture'. After creating a new layer I placed a picture onto the layer, I done this by clicking on the 'Place...' option and then selecting the Buster Keaton picture, however the quality of the picture was poor so in order to improve it to a better quality I had to click onto the 'Display Performance' option and then selecting the 'High Quality Display' option. then I locked the 'Picture' layer and also created a new layer and named it 'Image Frame', on this layer what I did was I used the 'Pen' tool to draw around Buster Keaton, and once I had drawn all around him I then made the 'Picture' layer non-visible so you could just see the outline of Buster Keaton. Once that was done I had to place the same picture as before and then match the outline and the picture up. After that I adjusted the stroke by using the 'Stroke' option to bring up the Stroke Palette, this is where I changed the 'Align Stroke' option to 'Outside' and changed the 'Type' option to Thin-Thick and the 'Weight' option to 4pt - I also adjusted the colour of the line by going onto the 'Colour' option, where I changed the colour to Grey. Then I adjusted the size of the image, I done this by selecting the picture and using the 'Free Transform' tool to make (in my case) the image smaller until it was the size I wanted, and moved it to the bottom left-hand size of the page. Once that was done, I had to create a new later called 'Text', and to that new layer I added the text for the leaflet using the same 'Place...' option as I used with the picture. Then, as the text was overlapping the picture and the other have of the page, I had to use the 'Text wrap' option, and on the text palette I chose the 'Wrap around the shape' frame and changed the 'Off-set' to 0p6 - and for the final text wrap changed it to 0.5cm. Also I moved the picture off the page slightly because I noticed some text was turning into 'islands' and made it more difficult to read. After that I made a copy of the Buster Keaton picture, then deleted the picture inside the fame leaving just the outline (which I adjusted in size a little), after which I removed the outline by going onto the 'Stroke' palette and changing the weight to 0 and then going onto the 'Text Wrap' palette and changing the off-set to 0.3cm. One I had done that I then placed the overflow of text from the previous column into the outline, which I done by clicking on the 'Hidden Text' icon (the little red box with a cross inside placed at the bottom right-hand size of the previous text box which had overflowed) and then clicking on the Buster Keaton outline. Finally I adjusted the text size and font, and then once satisfied I saved it as a INDD file and also as a JPEG file.

For this picture, I was satisfied with my final results. What I thought I done especially well with was cutting around Buster Keaton, as I followed his outline carefully resulting in no dodgy angles and parts of him missing. However, what I had technical difficulties with was the text; I wanted it so that Buster Keaton's 'vision' was the only part in the outlined section, so it took a lot of adjusting with text size and positioning to achieve that. I also struggled with not making some of the texts into 'islands'; it involved a lot of movement and size adjusting and I'm still not completely satisfied with my outcome but I got it done as best as I could.