While requesting high resolution photos from PR managers at various companies filled much of my time last week, I also had the opportunity to be another set of eyes in the multi-tiered copyediting process. Each spread for the issue is passed from person to person with each making his own edits, checking everything from spelling and grammar to facts and statistics. As corny as it sounds, I was intrigued as the pieces of the magazine were truly coming together in front of my eyes, with pictures that I had seen in various emails in raw form, photoshopped and arranged on the pages with blurbs of text that I had read through earlier.
Today, with the June issue completed and published, the tasks were significantly different. I first generated PDFs of each of the articles so that they could be electronically sent to the people on which they were written. Afterward, I spent the remainder of the day transferring the articles through Wordpress to the SCENE website. While I had seen the backhand of a website before, I was glad to have the hands-on opportunity to utilize several aspects of Wordpress, including text and image formatting. I have to say the coolest part, though was getting to put my name in the by-line for the short sidebar pieces I had written the week before.
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