Reading & Finishing the Book | Development

Throughout this whole process, we have all been writing different documents to go into the book we are producing for this unit. Nisserin has been doing the layout of the book as we went along, and myself and Laura were set to read through the book, to make sure it all makes sense and the spellings are correct, once it was done.
The reason why we decided to make a book is because we all liked the idea of having a keepsake from this project. We wanted something that we could keep and be proud of, other than the final video. We also thought it was a professional way to present our idea, and it would challenge us in terms of production and design, to work alongside our branding for the show.

We all decided, since I had finished my documents by this point, that I would read the book fully and change things when needed. And then the next day, which was the final day before we send the book off to be printed, Laura will go through the book and make sure everything sounds and looks good as well.
I read through everything completely, rather than skim reading, because I wanted to make sure everything sounded professional and everything made sense. I also wanted to make sure that there weren't any pronouns in any of the documents, other than the directors statement and the DOP statement. We all agreed, that by not using pronouns, it made the text sound more professional and it sounded a lot better.
When reading through the book I adjusted some of the sentence, words in terms of spelling, but other than that, it sounded really good. There were a few points that needed to be adjusted due to the development of the story, but it wasn't too difficult to do. I wrote down a few points that I thought needed to be adjusted, which I later told Nisserin in terms of layout and design and she corrected that once she had the book back.

Once I had thoroughly read through the book, which took me quite some time, we sat down and Nisserin added some missing documents that had to be put in. Nisserin also added the page numbers into the book, so our contents page could be completed. Myself and Laura then went through the book again, and we decided to make sure the contents page had the right headings and page numbers in it at the same time. After reading through a document, we wrote down the heading and the page number, and we did this throughout our reading.
Once the reading and spell checking was complete, we moved onto the contents page. Laura read out the headings and page number, whilst I typed them into the document. Then once that was complete and correct, Nisserin went through and made sure the layout of everything was correct, and the sizing was suitable for our printing of the book.

Once we were happy with everything, Nisserin exported the document into a PDF. We then looked through the PDF, to see if there were any mistakes we had missed, which of course there were. We then repeated the process, and when we were 100% happy with the final outcome we sent it off to be printed.
For the front and back cover of the book, Nisserin designed these two images:

We all loved this design as it wasn't too showy, meaning it still looked professional, whilst also clearly demonstrating our brand and tone of the idea. We are all very happy with our outcome, and cannot wait to see the final printed product. Printing is due to take a couple of weeks, so we are happy we managed to get this completed over 2 weeks before our deadline.