Newspaper Project Reflection

Newspaper Reflection

Something specific that I contributed to the final product that I liked

something I was proud of was the fact that I was able to make a very descent newspaper when I had no experience at all whatsoever on the program “in design”, Randy only gave me a short little introduction that I did not really understand, but after fiddling around with it a while, I understood the basics enough to make a descent layout. Originally that was going to be Kevin’s job, but since he went out of town and the girls did not want to do it, I was the one who got stuck with the job, but at least I learned how to use it and will be more efficient on the future.


Something specific that I contributed to the final product that I did not like

One of the things that I would change is that due to the absence of Kevin, who I wrote an article with, we did not write the article in an article fashion, but like an essay. Since he was gone, and I had not read the part of the debate that he did, I had to rewrite the whole paper in a different way. So what I would change is that I would make sure that I understood the project well, because sometimes you don’t know when you are wrong until it’s too late.


Reflect on your process

First we divided the reading of the debate into sections, I got the second part (Senator Douglas answer) and then we divided our groups in to two and started writing separate articles because we realized that there were too many people to do 1 article alone.
Then we started writing the articles and Kevin started to make a template for the newspaper on Photoshop because he knew that he was going to be out of town half the time of the project. Then the day after he left we were critiquing papers and one of the tutors told me that it did not work and that I had to re write it. So that day I tried to figure out a way so that I did not have to right the whole thing over. But in the end I stayed in at lunch and did it.
The next day, I started to do the layout for the newspaper; originally we were going to use Kevin’s but since we had to use in design we were not able to use it. So I learned how to use the program because none of the girls wanted to do it. I did the layout, found pictures and put in the text. And the girls found a add, re wrote it and put it in the newspaper.
Something that we could have improved is have had someone look over it just to make sure that it was all right, because today when we got the final product, there were some things that were not in the right places, body print was cut off and there were some typos. But I am still proud of myself for learning how to use programs that I did not know how to use in a short amount of time, and acting in what I think was a good job under pressure and stress caused my other deadlines too.