How CONTACT magazine is made – Part 3 – starting a spread with photos
Channel: contactpublishing
Date: 21/05/2019

In part 3 of this series, I make a good start on laying out a seven-page spread, using just the photos – because I haven't actually written the story yet.
This isn't a particularly unusual way to start – but it helps a lot knowing in my head what I've got in the bag in terms of phots and the style, tone and length of the story I want to write.
Besides, this isn't the first time I've covered the Wings Over Illawarra airshow.
Speaking of the photos – I took about 1800 over two days and, before I started recording this video, I selected about 60 that fit with CONTACT's military remit.
From there, I can let the space, my imagination and some divine inspiration take over, whittling the final selection down to about a dozen photos used in the layout.
It's also worth noting too that magazine layouts allow for a lot more artistic freedom than straight news reporting – as you'll see in the video. And this is doubly true when I took the photos, because I don't have to worry about upsetting a photographer by 'butchering' his/her photos.

I didn't add the timer in this video because this video only covers about a quarter of the whole spread, which, including writing the story, took about five hours all up.




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This video is brought to you by CONTACT Publishing – producers of CONTACT Air Land & Sea magazine and CONTACT fortnightly newsletter – subscribe to both free, here http://www.aussiecombat.com
and the daily CONTACT military-news web site  http://www.militarycontact.com

CONTACT reports on the people, platforms and operations of the world’s defence forces, particularly Australia. We are dedicated to presenting stories, photos and video that capture the essence of serving-members’ lives, as much as possible from the grass-roots perspective.

Subscribing to CONTACT is totally FREE – here http://www.aussiecombat.com
If you subscribe, you can expect to receive our quarterly magazine, our fortnightly newsletter and a copy of our viewee-twoee-sized "Weapons of the ADF" Part 1 and Part 2 – and no spam.

If you want to support CONTACT directly, you can become a member of our DFSW Club here – https://www.patreon.com/contactmagazine


A bit more about us…

CONTACT is independently owned and operated by a proud Aussie Veteran.

The CONTACT web site (http://www.militarycontact.com) is our internet-based headquarters where we publish daily news and other interesting, relevant items. 

We also use 
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/contactmagazine)
Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/aussiecontact)
Pinterest (http://www.pinterest.com/contactmagazine) and
YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/contactpublishing) 
as ’embassies’ where we engage our audience, inviting them back to our headquarters – http://www.militarycontact.com

The CONTACT newsletter is a free fortnightly email-based publication that draws attention to recent news stories. Its intent is to bring readers the best of the previous fortnight in a handy-reference format, as well as ‘blog-style’ articles produced specifically for the newsletter.

CONTACT Air Land & Sea magazine is a high-quality, full-colour, features-based magazine published four times per year. Initially launched in March 2004 as a traditional paper-based magazine, it switched to digital in 2013. It is now only available by FREE subscription – http://www.aussiecombat.com 

Our magazines are digitally archived at – http://www.contactairlandandsea.com/magazine-archives/ but are restricted to members of our ‘DFSW Club’ – find details at https://www.patreon.com/contactmagazine




Thank you for your interest and support.
I very much appreciate it,

Brian Hartigan
CONTACT Editor

Mobile – +61 (0)408 496 664
Email – editor@militarycontact.com

PO Box 3091, Minnamurra, NSW 2533, AUSTRALIA