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