How well does it meet your original intentions?
Our Original intentions were to produce a revision guide by media students, for media students in a style that would be more accessible by media students than a big old textbook. We definitely achieved this. How ever, the validity of some articles is questionable. I feel that considering this was our first print product we have ever produced and the first piece of revision material we have tried to collate, we have produced a strong product.
How does it look?
I am very pleased and impressed with the look and style of the product, the layout is conventional and easily readable whilst the colours give it a bit of an edge and make it more interesting. We were briefed to use the colour to make the paper more interesting; whilst to an extent we have done this, I don’t think we have made the most of it. For example we could have coloured quotes instead of just making them a larger font and the header/footer info could have been more stand out.
How pleased are you with your contributions?
I have never been a strong student when it comes to writing, I find it extremely difficult to get what I want to say onto the page. Because of this, I have found this project, over any other to be the most difficult. I found it very frustrating when I had almost finished my article, to be told it wasn’t right for the paper. However I didn’t take it to heart, I took my article and re-worked it, only for it to be turned away a second time. I then came up with a third idea, good enough to make the cut. Only to find there wasn’t enough room for it to be put clearly in the paper. I feel I put in a strong contribution, writing my own article, helping secure adverts and producing a flat plan. I would have liked to of had my contribution recogised more than it was, but that’s just how it goes, you don’t always get recognition, things still have to be done regardless. I am happy with the amount contribution I put into this project.
How effectively do you think you worked in your role and others in theirs?
At the start of this project I was quite apprehensive about working in a large group because, in previous large group projects there has been a lot of arguing and people taking other peoples roles etc. However I think over all in this project, everyone stuck to their roles, and we all worked together pretty well. As far as my contribution goes, I was originally pretty apprehensive about being a team leader because of my lack of confidence in written tasks. I soon got to grips with the idea and realised there wasn’t a huge amount of leadership role to do anyway. As well as my tasks I also helped Alex with some of his tasks when he needed it. Tasks such as article planning and securing adverts.
What could be learnt from this experience?
From the experience of this project I have learnt a lot about print products in general, it was a good chance to gain a wider base to our media knowledge (we have previously only worked on digital media projects). More specifically we learnt that when we all concentrate and have set targets as we go we are able to work well as a team.
What has been learnt from previous experience?
Right from the start of the project we were drawing upon previous project experiences, like when assigning roles. We knew some students took the power of being in charge to their heads and were controlling and some students couldn’t work with other because they distracted each other to easily. This knowledge was vital to making the project work.
