29th March - Sessions Work

Myself and Alie have worked hard towards a deadline today. The quality control team have asked us to cut down our article from two pages to one page so that it fits within the newspaper efficiently. This was quite a hard task because we had to be very ruthless with our articles and we needed to cut our large amounts of text out of them.

My article was originally two pages, which included the image of my opie and also some links to some useful websites. I decided that the best way to go about doing this would be to read through my article and take out paragraphs or even individual sentences that are not needed within the article. As I went through my article, it became harder to take out big chunks of my text and towards the end I only had a small sentence that was into the next page. This where I really had to be ruthless and think of what the article could do without, so I took out some elements of my article that make it sound quite personal rather than general, therefore the feel to article then changed slightly.

This was interesting task and one the most challenging things that we had to complete for this project. This gave us a big taster into what the industry expects of its writers and how strict you have to be with yourself and the article that you are writing.