Progress Report, Nov 8th, 2007

Purpose:

The document in question is a booklet designed essentially to increase awareness of the History Master's Program here at Clemson. The goal is to both provide information and persuasion, something along the lines of why you might decide to attend Clemson's History MA program, rather than going elsewhere or not at all. The document is meant to be provided by advisors to their advisees.

Work To Date:

Last week, I spent the majority of the week dealing first with a relative's funeral, and second, a nasty stomach virus that left me out of commission. The combination of the two pretty well left it a lost week. This week I have been working on a template for my booklet's covers and pages. I know that this decision may seem arbitrary when I'm still trying to get the writing done, but I know from doing trifolds in the past that what you get to say is often severely limited by the room you have to say it in. I've been designing the templates based on the assumption that I will use 8.5x11 sized press sheets, as they would be easy to deal with for a firm that does quick printing. I can adjust the template however if need be, and I plan to ask for input on the size today. I have also been continuing to try to output text for the booklet.

Work Planned:

Photos for the booklet will be had today, by hook or by crook. I have the template completed enough now that I can plug text into it without interfering with anything else that I plan on adding to the template. If I get some good photos today, I will look at using one or several to put together a poster. As it is, my camera produces shots of 48" by 32" at 71 PPI, so I can scale them down some to get a decent resolution for printing and still have a good poster sized image. If I do a composite with multiple images, I can get good resolution for certain, and size won't be an issue anymore.

Conclusion:

I'd really hoped to be further along at this point than I am, and while I can blame that on the fact that I lost a week, placing blame doesn't get the work done. So I need to get the work done, and that will mean sacrificing a lot of time I could have spent otherwise, to make up for that which was lost