I think our group did a really good job on our newspaper. We worked well together and I think the final product turned out really good. One of my contributions that I was most proud of was my final article. I worked really hard on it and I hope that it shows. I tried to stay within the guidelines of news-style writing, which was new to me. I tried to write it as close to an actual newspaper article as I could. I wanted the information to be unbiased, and I think that I did that. I'm also happy with the picture that I contributed to the page because the rest of my group liked it and I think it looked good on our newspaper.
If we were to redo this project, I definitely would have written a different caption for my picture. I don't think that mine was very interesting and I was just writing it based on the caption criteria we were given and I didn't make it different or interesting. I also would have changed my headline and maybe added a sub-headline because now I realize that they make all the difference and probably would have made my article better.
Looking back on the few days we spent on the project, I wish I had been more involved with the design and layout portion. Amanda did a really great job and did the majority of computer work since she had learned about InDesign, but I think that the layout of our paper might have had different ideas incorporated into it if we had all been more involved. One of my favorite parts of our newspaper would be the pull-quotes. I think they look really professional and stand out against the rest of the text.
One thing I learned from this project is that once you print and publish something, it's done. You really have to be sure that everything is exactly the way you want it before you print it because you can't edit or make changes after that. After professionally publishing something, you wouldn't want to think of a list of changes that you would want to make or be unhappy with the way something looks. All of the edits need to be made before hand so that you can avoid being unhappy with something.
If we were to redo this project, I definitely would have written a different caption for my picture. I don't think that mine was very interesting and I was just writing it based on the caption criteria we were given and I didn't make it different or interesting. I also would have changed my headline and maybe added a sub-headline because now I realize that they make all the difference and probably would have made my article better.
Looking back on the few days we spent on the project, I wish I had been more involved with the design and layout portion. Amanda did a really great job and did the majority of computer work since she had learned about InDesign, but I think that the layout of our paper might have had different ideas incorporated into it if we had all been more involved. One of my favorite parts of our newspaper would be the pull-quotes. I think they look really professional and stand out against the rest of the text.
One thing I learned from this project is that once you print and publish something, it's done. You really have to be sure that everything is exactly the way you want it before you print it because you can't edit or make changes after that. After professionally publishing something, you wouldn't want to think of a list of changes that you would want to make or be unhappy with the way something looks. All of the edits need to be made before hand so that you can avoid being unhappy with something.
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