Evaluation

Evaluation.

For yellow week I decided to choose journalism, the brief was based on obsession. We first had to write what we are obsessed with on a sticky note and mine was my blackberry. So then we got told to a write 500 word draft about our obsession then when we returned we would edit it and so forth. The article would be published in the Feed magazine. I based it on overall technology so I could then include social networks in and it would be able to relate to a lot more people than just blackberry owners.

I wrote around 520 words explaining how obsessed I am with technology. I enjoyed writing this article as my fingers where just typing away because it was personal to me about my previous and current happenings. My first heading was obsessions but after going through it with my group I then changed it and went through a lot of different headings from technology; a constant obsession to Yesterdays black and white... tomorrows animated but I finally decided to choose another heading which was “has tomorrow already come?” as I thought it was effective and would make the reader want to know what the article was about.

While using the InDesign program for the first time I found difficulties on how would be a suitable way to lay my article out across a spread. After many changes and a bit of help from a graphic student I then created the layout. I inserted a picture I took earlier of my hand using my blackberry and a Facebook homepage as the background to make it clear what my article was about.

If I could do this over I would probably think more about the layout and try many different layouts until the perfect one.

After this yellow week it has definetly made me more assured doing magazine or fashion journalism at uni is the right choice because when i had my final article written and how easily I found to write, I enjoyed it.