Assignment 3: Flight to Evzoni [sample]

Assignment 3: Flight to Evzoni [text file]

[Below is the text for the design task in Assignment 3 ]

The little plane seemed to hover momentarily and almost flutter its wings like a kestrel before descending onto the old road beside the motorway on the Greek side of the border just north of Evzoni. Still warm but beginning to darken, there were few vehicles waiting. The noisy cicadas in the trees around them replaced a smooth landing and the whirr of the engines. Maria unfastened her safety harness and climbed out. Chris followed her rather clumsily. They strolled across the scrubby grass and on to the motorway. Its rough concrete surface was a yellowish grey, cracked with weeds peeping through. It showed no sign of wear, being a virtually stretch running through a half-finished gantry where bare brick shelters stood guard at a toll station that had yet to take its first drachma or dinar. Built in some more prosperous time and left when funds ran out, traffic continued to accumulate as it filtered through the dirty greys and blues of the old Customs post.
 A '62 Citroen DS model slumped nearby, tyres flat and body covered with dust and grime. Behind it a tired Volkswagen beetle perched on a trailer behind an old Datsun pick-up. These, and dozens like them, were all the victims of the tight controls on vehicle import and export. The best would have been auctioned long ago or purchased by one of the officers' friends or family. A family of French tourists sat glumly waiting for their turn to be checked, watching the car in front being virtually stripped as two hapless travellers were made to prove they were not carrying anything they shouldn't be.
 A Greek driver shouted impatiently at someone. He received a one-fingered reply and sat back silent. Strangely, huge lorries of questionable vintage lumbered through almost unnoticed. Maria went straight into the corridor-like offices of the Customs Control and approached the desk of the officer in charge. A man of about thirty-five, he wore a short-sleeved, white cotton shirt with a buttoned pocket on the right. His desk was covered in papers - a shambles of forms in triplicate and more, loosely clipped or held in ragged, brown card files. A variety of rubber stamps lay on their sides near his right hand. Two packets of Papistratos cigarettes rested on another set of papers. He stubbed out a cigarette as she reached the desk.

[© Andrew Hill 2012 All rights reserved ]

Assignment 3: Flight to Evzoni [Brief]

Brief for Flight to Evzoni
Produce an attractive display of an extract from a novel Flight to Evzoni

1. You will be provided with a text file called customs. This contains three paragraphs of a novel. Alternatively, you may be asked to obtain this by scanning a printed version or copying from the internet. Save the file as customs1 so that you will not risk changing the original file.

2. Each paragraph should have a heading – use these three:

Customs control | The car park | Papers

3. Add a main heading at the beginning of the document (but not in a header): Evzoni

4. Select a suitable serif font for the main text between size 10 and 12

5. Select a suitable font for the main heading Evzoni and three paragraph headings. The main heading should be larger than the size used for the other three

6. Change the page layout so that the left and right margins are 2” (or 5cm) a top margin of 2” (5cm) and a bottom margin 3” (7 ½ cm). Set the gutter to ½“ (1cm) and justify the main text.

7. Insert a page break at the beginning of the document to create a new first page. On this page place the text Flight to Evzoni in a large and attractive font suitable for a cover page.

8. In a header for all pages, except the first, enter the same title Flight to Evzoni (in a smaller but same style font as the title page) and also a page number in a plain, contrasting font next to that. There should be no page number on the first page and the numbering on the second sheet should start at 1.

9. Put your name and the date in a footer, using a smaller font than the main document text. This should not appear on the first page.

10. Add appropriate images to the front page and to each paragraph. You can choose the type and style of image but they should relate to the text and the three in the main text should have a consistent theme, size or layout.

11. The finished document should be no more than 4 pages and there should be no sections of text less than three full length lines at the top or bottom of the main text pages.

12. All content, including images should be contained within the margins when printed. Save the file in an original (editable) format and in PDF format, both named customs2.