This morning, I posted a weekly entertainment section that was redone into a Harry Potter movie theme by the folks at the Victoria Advocate. Those same folks did a similar thing a couple of years ago, too.
My afternoon e-mail brings me a note from Aly Brumback, editor-in-chief of the Ball State Student Daily, where the student journalists have also recreated an issue of the Prophet.
Here is Ball State’s front page today:
Aly writes:
Our designer, Jen Minutillo, has been planning and working on the front page for probably a week and a half. What she created came out even better than we could have imagined.
Here are a couple of inside pages. Click for a larger view, of course:
Aly continues:
I’ve attached the files of our special pages. On our website on the right sidebar, you can find the entire issue PDF (it’s too big to attach to this e-mail; we had three sections and 28 pages today).
Also, online we have made our front page interactive, since the newspaper moves in the movies. It has slideshows and a video of Ball State’s Quidditch team. See it here.
I’ve tried and tried, but I can’t pull up the 28-page PDF or the interactive Quidditch piece or even the Ball State Daily web site. Perhaps you can see it there in the U.S. So please follow those links.
In fact, if someone would pull the PDF and then send it to me via an FTP server — or, better yet, send me a screen cap of that Quidditch presentation — I’d be much obliged.
In the meantime, I do have PDFs of those three pages above. Download them here.
Here’s the link to the interactive PDF (it’s actually a .SWF file)
http://files.bsudailynews.com/Potterfront/PotterFront.swf
Nice job on the pages. They look really good. Keep up the amazing job.