Mid-Term meeting with supervisor and updates

Printing the book

I have finished my products far before I had planned on my timeline so that gave me more time to organize the printing process. I originally planned to print the book with a website called "Blurb" so I basically needed to send them the PDF document of my work and they would send it to my house printed as a proper book. The problem with this website turned out to be the number of pages in my book which were too many to fit the layout I had chosen. I then had to find another place to print it and it took a week to have 5 copies. 

Deadline: 5th February 

On the 5th of February I handed in one copy of my project. 

Meeting with my supervisor

At this point my supervisor changed and I would say it was actually a good thing so when we had the meeting I had to introduce the work I have done from the very beginning which also gave me a great overview of what I had done and what I could have done better.
We first looked at the research I have done (analysing products and getting inspiration) then at  my criteria, the updated version thanks to the feedback I got. My supervisor then took a quick look at my product and we discussed how to write the report and what needs to be included in it. We then both signed the academic honesty paper.

The report

I now have a good plan of what I would like to include in my report and a really rough draft. The deadline is the 5th of March. The first thing I want to do is to carefully look at all my entries on my process journal and choose the ones that show the ATL skills the best. 

I HAVE FINISHED, checklist, timeline and meeting with supervisor

Finally, I can say that I have finished my project, at least the creation.
I completed every section of the travel guide, put it on Indesign and saved everything as a PDF. Now I need to find a place to get it printed because the website I was going to use ended up having some problems.

First things first, for the planning stage I had created a timeline and a check-list for this project. One of the requirements for criteria B is to show excellent planning skills so I updated both of them during the creation stage to show how much and when I have been working on the project. Here there is the updated version of both of the documents. Sorry for the bad quality pictures but I had to take an actual picture because my scanner is not working properly!

Also I had another meeting with my supervisor Helena and we basically discussed everything I have already written above and I showed her the travel guide's look on my computer. To see it I added a section at the top of this page called Everything Everywhere: Milan (Travel Guide) http://sofiaspj.blogspot.se/p/everything-everywhere-milan-travel-guide.html where I put screenshots of my work on Indesign, there a a few mistakes and things that I modified so the actual guide I am going to print looks much nicer. Also we talked about printing places and as soon as I get better I will go and look at the two we said otherwise I might go and search in Malmo where there  should be more. I might have to edit the size of the pages depending on what each place offers.

Table of contents: DONE! and review of the entire book

and with this table of contents I am officially finished!!!

Before exporting it to a PDF document and sending it to get it printed I reviewed the entire book searching for pages problems, grammatical mistakes and other imperfections.
Here are the sections that I applied modifications to:
Author Profile
General Info 2
History
History 4
Duomo Shopping 1
Porta Romana 1
Porta Venezia 1
Acknowledgements

To see the final version of the book check out the page at the top of this blog: everything everywhere written Milan (travel guide), there are going to be mistakes because I didn't manage to change it to the new correct version.

I will upload now the updated checklist and timeline so that it will be possible to see my progress in the past few weeks.

Itinerary #2: DONE!

I have decided not to include an itinerary #3 as it is not needed at all as I said everything I needed in the other two itineraries. Here is what the second one looks like.

Itinerary #1: DONE!

Expo 2015 section: DONE!

On the internet: DONE!

I recently got the idea of adding another section to the guide, something that could collects all the useful website, apps and blogs that people could read and use while they were in Milan and even before the trip. I then collected links of a bunch of different things and out them on Indesign.

Porta Venezia: DONE!

I have finished the last one of the areas I was supposed to do.

Updates for bibliography

Facebook Twitter DELIGHTFULLY ITALY. "Trendy Milan: Walking Tour in Corso Como and Porta Nuova." Delightfully Italy. DELIGHTFULLY ITALY, 23 Mar. 2014. Web. 06 Jan. 2015.

A View on Cities. "Sforzesco Castle." Milan. A View on Cities, 2013. Web. 06 Jan. 2015.

Gaiba, Rames. "TRAMA E ORDITO - Il Blog Della Moda: Ago, Filo E Nodo - Scultura Piazza Cadorna a Milano." TRAMA E ORDITO - Il Blog Della Moda: Ago, Filo E Nodo - Scultura Piazza Cadorna a Milano. Blogger, 19 Sept. 2013. Web. 06 Jan. 2015.

Tourism Milan. "Ago, Filo E Nodo Needle, Thread and Knot - Official Website Milan Tourism." Ago, Filo E Nodo Needle, Thread and Knot - Official Website Milan Tourism. Milan Is Tourism, 2013. Web. 06 Jan. 2015.

Triennale Di Milano. "Triennale Di Milano - La Triennale." Triennale Di Milano - La Triennale. Triennale Di Milano, 2015. Web. 06 Jan. 2015.

Milan Tourism. "Torre Branca." Milan Is Tourism. Milan Tourism, 2010. Web. 6 Jan. 2015.

Eataly. " ." Home Shop English. Eataly, 2014. Web. 06 Jan. 2015. <http://www.eataly.net/it_en/shop/>.

Comune Di Milano. "Cimitero Monumentale." Comune Di Milano. Comune Di Milano, 2012. Web. 6 Jan. 2015.

Santelli, Maurizio. "La Fiera Delle Bontà - Expo." Dove 2014: 8-23. Web. 6 Jan. 2015.

Porta Garibaldi. DONE!