collaborative

desktop publishing
Teamwork + Skills
Heart + Brain
Artists + Writers
Time + Pressure
The competition in collaborative publishing is designed to encourage
teamwork among campus journalists and simulate the workplace
of an editorial department in a publishing house.

It puts the writers’ skills and artists’ talents in a team.

 Team Composition
The Collaborative publishing team is suggested to be composed
of:
•Layout Artist/s
•News Writer/s
•Feature Writer/s
•Editorial Writer/s
•Sports Writer/s
•Cartoonist/s
•Photojournalist/s
 Each team player may
have a specialized category.

However,
each member must be able
to perform in every category
Equipment and Materials needed
• Laptops (max of 4 in the contest)
• Adobe InDesign software or MS Publisher installed in
laptop to be used (any version but latest version is
recommended)
• Pen and Paper
• Drawing materials
• Camera (preferably DSLR)
• Printer
• Scanner
• Extensions
CORE AND BASIC TECHNICAL SKILLS
THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
How to start up Application / Program (Adobe
InDesign, Photoshop and MS Publisher)
The difference between vector and raster image
How to open a blank page
How to insert/add text
How to save
How to convert document to PDF
How to print
PAGE COMPONENTS
THAT SHOULD BE STANDARDIZED
• Page size
• Page orientation ( horizontal or vertical )
• Margins
• Number of text columns
• Column widths
• Gutters ( space between text columns )
• Justification for body text, subheads, headlines, headers and footers and captions
• Font size and style for headlines, subheadings, body and text and captions
• Leading ( spacing between lines ) and tracking ( spacing between characters )
• Paragraph spacing
• Page numbering
• Indentation
ADOBE INDESIGN
ID INTERFACE
MS PUBLISHER
PUBLISHER INTERFACE
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
PS INTERFACE
Designers work with four elements: copy, art, headlines and white space
- Copy: the actual text
- Art: Photos, illustrations, maps, graphs, lines, etc; anything that is not text
- Headlines: Any header for an article
- White Space: Any space that is not covered by one of the three
components mentioned above
The team will be given two (2) hours for data
gathering and writing and another two (2) hours
for lay-outing and editing.
 A mini press conference will be
held to become the basis for the
actual writing of the editorial, feature,
and news articles.
Either a video or actual game
will be the basis for the sports
articles.
Photo journalists will get photos
to be used in the publication only in
the press conference and in the

Data Gathering video/actual game.

 Each team will be required to bring a maximum of four (4)
laptops installed with EITHER Pagemaker OR In Design AND
Photoshop (for secondary level) AND Microsoft Publisher (for
elementary) for the lay-out the group's final output.
 Each group will be required to convert their output into pdf
format, print and submit it to the contest committee.

The collaborative publishing team shall submit both hard and

soft copies of their entries.

They should ensure that no identifying marks about their school,

division or region can be found on their output.
The output of the contest is an A4-sized
four-page publication.
WORK AS A TEAM
WIN AS A TEAM
Remember:
1 PAPER (A4)
4 PAGES
12 ARTICLES 3 NEWS STORIES, 3 EDITORIALS,
3 FEATURES, 3 SPORTS ARTICLES

3 HOURS (AT MOST)

7 MEMBERS
Crafting Questions During
PRESS
CONFERENCE
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(THE THINNEST PARTS OF LETTER MODERN. THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THICK AND THIN LINES. THE BETWEEN THICK AND THIN LINES.
FORMS ARE ON THE ANGLES), BETWEEN THCK AND THIN LINES SERIFS ARE VERY THIN AND STRAIGHT. THE SERIFS ARE VERY THICK AND
THERE IS LESS DISTINCTION ARE MORE PRONOUNCED THAN IN THEY ARE LESS READABLE THAN OLD STRAIGHT. THEY TAKE ON AN
BETWEEN THICK AND THIN LINES, OLD STYLE, BUT HAVE SLIGHTLY STYLE AND TRANSITIONAL TYPEFACES. ALMOST SANS SERIF APPEARANCE
AND THE READABLITY IS VERY LESS CONTRAST THAN MODERN EXAMPLE: BECAUSE OF THE LOW CONTRAST.
HIGH. THEIR FORMS ARE PARTLY SERIF TYPEFACES. EXAMPLE: EXAMPLE
BASED ON CALLIGRAPHY. EXAMPLE:

Garamond Baskerville Rockwell

Serif typefaces are commonly used for text. Serif type is

categorized by small strokes at the ends of each letterform.
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THEY ARE FIXED-WIDTH WHERE

THEY ARE THE MOST CALLIGRAPHIC THEY ARE THE MOST COMMON THEY ARE BASED ON GEOMETRIC EVERY CHARACTER OCCUPIES THE
OF THE SANS SERIF TYPEFACES, SANS SERIF TYPEFACES, THE LETTER SHAPES (THE CIRCLE, SQUARE, SAME AMOUNT OF HORIZONTAL
WITH SOME VARIATION IN LINE FORMS ARE RELATIVELY STRAIGHT TRIANGLE), BUT ARE MORE SPACE. THIS ALLOWS FOR LINES OF
WIDTH AND MORE LEGIBILITY THAN IN APPEARANCE AND HAVE LESS DIFFICULT TO READ IN SMALL BODY TEXT TO ALIGN, ONE ON TOP OF
PTHER SAN SERIF FONTS, EXAMPLE: LINE WIDTH VARIATION THAN TEXT SETTINGS THAN HUMANIST ANOTHER. EXAMPLE:
HUMANIST SANS SERIF TYPEFACES. OR TRANSITIONAL SANS SERIF
EXAMPLE: TYPEFACES. EXAMPLE:

Gill Sans Courier

Helvetica Futura

Sans-serif type is ideal for display type—headlines, subheads,

pull-quotes, captions, etc.
DECORATIVE

THEY MIMIC CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT THEY ARE A SPECIALTY TYPE WHERE EACH
HANDWRITING FROM CENTURIES AGO. THEY ARE GENERALLY NEAT, FLOWING, AND THEY ARE LESS FORMAL AND TAKE ON FORMS CHARACTER IS A SMALL GRAPHIC AND CAN BE
DRAMATIC ANGLES OR CURVES CHARACTERIZE FORMAL IN APPEARANCE. MANY ARE BASED ON AS THOUGH CREATED BY HAND AND BRUSH. DECORATIVE OR FUNCTIONAL. EXAMPLE:
THESE LETTER FORMS AND CAN FEATURE A REFINED, HANDWRITTEN CALLIGRAPHY AND THEY MAY RESEMBLE HANDWRITING IN
DECORATIVE ELEMENTS. EXAMPLE: ARE USUALLY SLANTED. EXAMPLE: CURSIVE OR PRINT. EXAMPLE:

Choose a decorative or script typefaces for situations in which

type is more ornamental than informative.
 A font choice can
change the message.

A FONT CHOICE CAN

CHANGE THE MESSAGE.
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ALL COLORS ARE FRIENDS OF
THEIR NEIGHBORS AND
LOVERS OF THEIR OPPOSITES.
SAMPLEOUPUTS
Criteria
for Judging