This is the presentation that I made to present at the end of the project but I then chose not to use it as the settings on the video have gone too fast so it is hard to read. The presentation went quite well without the Keynote and just using the newspaper for visuals was useful and effective.
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Monday, 26 April 2010
Mike's Feedback on My Blog
Mike, from the quality control team, has been looking through each of our blogs to see what is needed to still be completed and to give us some feedback that we can improve on. He has looked through my blog and this is the feedback which he has given me.
I am now working on finding the videos on Kirks blog to put on to my blog and adding a few pictures to some of the rest of my posts.
I am now working on finding the videos on Kirks blog to put on to my blog and adding a few pictures to some of the rest of my posts.
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Evaluation of Finished Newspaper
How well does it meet your original intentions?
I think that the overall outcome of our newspaper is quite good but I feel that the newspaper is very basic and I expected a lot more. I thought that as we are paying for colour that the newspaper would be a lot more colourful and be something that stands out. I think overall the articles look how I saw them turning out but I thought that we would have used more images and colours throughout to make them standout on each page. I thought that because this was new to us that we wouldn't be producing something that is very complex and I originally assumed that it would be quite simple, easy to read but I think that if we had worked harder we could have done a lot better to make it interesting.
How does it look?
The front page is quite basic, as it is laid out similar to the articles throughout the newspaper. The title is in a simple font, a primary red colour and the page layout is of simple columns of texts and four information boxes along the left hand side. A few logos are displayed on the bottom of the front page but there are no images on the front page and I think that this would have made the front page more appealing. The articles are also laid out within this sturcture and a few of them have images but I think that we could have done with few text and bigger images to draw people in to reading the articles.
How pleased are you with your contributions and how effectively did you work within your role?
I am quite pleased with my contributions and I feel that I have tried to complete my role as best I can but as with a lot of projects, I think there are some things I could have done better. I enjoyed my role as leader of the blue group as I feel I have not had a leadership role before and I enjoyed the challenge. I think that I could have enforced the tasks within my group a lot firmer as sometimes they were reluctant to work and some things may not have been completed on time. However, with persistance they did listen and take to the tasks with enthusiasm and determination.
I felt quite happy with completing the work for the articles and even though mine was not used within the paper, I was quite happy with what I produced but I thought that if I had spent some more time on it maybe it could have been left in. This was an interesting experience to see how it works within the business and having to make ruthless decissions was very good for all of us.
What could be learned from the experience?
I think that we have learned a lot from this experience as it has given us a clear insight into the business how hard it is to produce something that people want. I was hoping that this experience would help us work together within different groups and with different people but there were a lot of arguements and some people refusing to complete work so i don't think that this was completed to the best of our ability. I think that we learnt that you need to be able to work really hard to meet a deadline and that in some cases tough decissions need to be made to make the process a lot easier and work to meet the deadline. This was a good lesson because before hand we would have spent a long time trying to cut something down that we couldn't and it lose us marks but now having the experience of needing to cut something down - we are now more willing to do so.
I think that the overall outcome of our newspaper is quite good but I feel that the newspaper is very basic and I expected a lot more. I thought that as we are paying for colour that the newspaper would be a lot more colourful and be something that stands out. I think overall the articles look how I saw them turning out but I thought that we would have used more images and colours throughout to make them standout on each page. I thought that because this was new to us that we wouldn't be producing something that is very complex and I originally assumed that it would be quite simple, easy to read but I think that if we had worked harder we could have done a lot better to make it interesting.
How does it look?
The front page is quite basic, as it is laid out similar to the articles throughout the newspaper. The title is in a simple font, a primary red colour and the page layout is of simple columns of texts and four information boxes along the left hand side. A few logos are displayed on the bottom of the front page but there are no images on the front page and I think that this would have made the front page more appealing. The articles are also laid out within this sturcture and a few of them have images but I think that we could have done with few text and bigger images to draw people in to reading the articles.
How pleased are you with your contributions and how effectively did you work within your role?
I am quite pleased with my contributions and I feel that I have tried to complete my role as best I can but as with a lot of projects, I think there are some things I could have done better. I enjoyed my role as leader of the blue group as I feel I have not had a leadership role before and I enjoyed the challenge. I think that I could have enforced the tasks within my group a lot firmer as sometimes they were reluctant to work and some things may not have been completed on time. However, with persistance they did listen and take to the tasks with enthusiasm and determination.
I felt quite happy with completing the work for the articles and even though mine was not used within the paper, I was quite happy with what I produced but I thought that if I had spent some more time on it maybe it could have been left in. This was an interesting experience to see how it works within the business and having to make ruthless decissions was very good for all of us.
What could be learned from the experience?
I think that we have learned a lot from this experience as it has given us a clear insight into the business how hard it is to produce something that people want. I was hoping that this experience would help us work together within different groups and with different people but there were a lot of arguements and some people refusing to complete work so i don't think that this was completed to the best of our ability. I think that we learnt that you need to be able to work really hard to meet a deadline and that in some cases tough decissions need to be made to make the process a lot easier and work to meet the deadline. This was a good lesson because before hand we would have spent a long time trying to cut something down that we couldn't and it lose us marks but now having the experience of needing to cut something down - we are now more willing to do so.
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