Week 14: Out of Class

There was not Week 14B post because of Thanksgiving Break. I was able to refine a few things over break.

First I fixed the color issue on the third page of the social media article. Below is a picture of the original background color and the change.

Initially, I had tried to change it up and have white body copy with a grey checklist, but readability was not there. I was hoping the change in background color would help but it did not so instead I had the copy copy be the darker color and allowed the checklist to be white. 

 I am not longer trying to do the flipping circle idea because it was not working out and I could not fit it into any of my other layouts, so I felt that there was a disconnect. So I took that section out of the interaction key and explained my system for the page numbers instead.

 So I did not lose that content I fit the two rectangles on the spread together and removed the stroke. I feel that this is a good solution instead of trying to fit it all on one larger rectangle.

 I also figured out how I wanted to do the impact spread for the social media article. I ended up cutting the text up (as seen in the screenshot below). I feel that this is more dynamic and it connects to the page links within the abstract shape. I chose to keep the outer text black to help balance the black body copy deck at the opposing corner.

Finally I also fixed the settings on my cover video so now the viewer can pause and play at just a tap instead of all of the controls coming up and not being able to more on.