This document summarizes a student's reflections over 16 days of a production project. On the first day, the student organized materials, contacted local shops with questions for an article, and designed a front cover in Photoshop. The next day, the student started an article on the best coffee shops in York while waiting for shop responses. On the third day, the student researched popular places in York for a second article. Over the following days, the student continued writing articles, finding images, and improving layouts.

1. PRODUCTION
REFLECTION
Hannah Palfreeman

2. Day One
This was the first day of production. For the first lesson, I
decided that I would get everything organised before I
would start my production. I got all up to date with my
blogger as well as adding any final details into my theory
work. While doing this I thought about how I would get the
independent shops in York to answer some of the
questions which I had produced to create this article. The
following lesson, I decided to look on websites of
independents shop for email addresses and I found a few
which I emailed asking if they wanted to contribute with this
and if they did I would send them the questions in another
email. A few shops said they were more than happy to
answer the questions which I had set and they will make
sure I have the answers soon. While I was waiting for some
responses, I started to edit my front cover. This took a while
I didn't know which font to use. I also wanted to experiment
more with the different effects which I can create on
Photoshop. I felt as though today went really well as I had
sent some emails which will help my for my articles. In the
future I will find the tasks which I did today extremely
useful. For tomorrow, I hopefully should of received more
responses from the shops which I contacted, this should
mean that I can start writing one of my articles.

3. While waiting for some of the responses to
come back from the email which I sent around I
decided to start one of my articles. This was
about the best coffee shops in York. I really
enjoyed to create this article, I already had
collected some images of coffee which I had
taken my own. I created a layout on InDesign
before I added in any text as I wanted to have a
clear plan of where my writing was going to go
and where the 2 images were going to be. The
main images are placed on the right hand side
as when you read a magazine I look at the right
hand side page first, if the image was big and
appealing it would attract the audience to read
this article. As you can see from the bottom
screenshot I added the text in, I learnt that a
convention of a article is that the text should be
no bigger than 13pt. This was very new to me
so I was unsure if this was going to look ok but
in the end I looked at it completely and it looked
good. It was still unfinished though but as soon
as I get a image for the bottom of the right hand
page is should be finished.
Day Two

4. Today I started a rough copy on my second
article. This was about the best place in York to
visit. Today was spent researching where the best
shops and buildings which are the most popular in
York. I looked on different websites and on trip
advisor and found the best restaurants, shopping
places and places to visit when in the city. I found
the prices and opening times of the York Minster
and events at York Racecourse. This was really
interesting and I learnt a lot about the city which I
actually live in. I noted down the specific
restaurants like Il Paradiso in York and Bettys
tearooms. I found some information on Bettys
tearooms and added this in to my notes as I
thought this would be good to put into my article.
Towards the end of the day I started to put all my
notes together and start the article. This
information which I gathered today will be very
useful for this article as I most of the places which
I have recommended I have visited and I have a
positive view of this. The next day I will start this
article and create a layout which would attract the
audience.
Day Three

5. Today was spent creating my article and
deciding which layout would be best. To
start off I referred to the notes which I
made yesterday and added it into a
professional article which will be full of
information for the reader. Compared to
the article which I wrote last time I felt as
though it was much harder to make it
relevant and fun for the reader to read. I
carried on and started to get into what I
was starting to write. I found some images
on my camera which I took a while ago on
separate occasions. In the summer I liked
to go and take images of York and the
ones which I liked I kept. These images
turned very handy.
Day Four

6. Day Five

7. Day Six

8. Day Seven

9. Day Eight

10. Day Nine

11. Day Ten

12. Day Eleven

13. Day Twelve

14. Day Thirteen

15. Day Fourteen

16. Day Fifteen

17. Day Sixteen