1. The evaluation
Journalism is the activity or profession of writing for newspapers or magazines or of
broadcasting news on radio or television.
I started off by researching many magazines which are notorious for having
the world’s best artists. Magazines such as vibe, GQ and issue. However, I ended up
being drawn in by GQ which was by far a very elite and classy magazine. I read
through countless pages and understood the concept, the colour and the layout
which GQ magazine use to put there article together.
As I proceeded to make my own GQ article I started facing problems, I was
using the latest version of Adobe InDesign however, the software in college was out
dated and it wouldn’t convert my article. I also had to write in the way a GQ author
would write, with a bit of humour and class, humour by itself is on the other side of
the scale compared to class, so bringing them together was a mission. I guess I had to
relearn about magazine jargon and sarcasm. However, I prevailed and ended up
writing a fantastic article.
A fresh start is said in many occasions, and this was one of them. I had never
used InDesign before and I had to learn from the basics. I started by learning how to
import (place) pictures, how to use all the side functions. I had problems finding the
links for the pictures so they could be opened again at a later time. However, I didn’t
find many weaknesses, but I found out that I could quickly adapt to these changes to
come out with a better article. I also used GQ’s idea of a border to depict the
corresponding football theme for that time.
Eventually I made the time consuming task of creating a Blogger account. It was
defiantly the hardest task to complete, as in the college it would never load and it
required a lot of loading time. I then started uploading my work to it to create a blog
and for the teachers to be able to track my work. I was struggling to upload my
article as a .png file, I ended up having to embed it into the blog.
After this I created a questionnaire to gain audience feedback which helped me
a lot. I had no negative comments about the article the main thing my audience
wondered about was that if the text in the article should be in the layout of a
newspaper in blocks or in normal word paragraphs.
For next time I will use a larger variety of colours, might use column text and use
more pictures.
Danyaal