All of the aspects we were asked to mark were on the front page of this issue of the OU Daily minus the jumpline and deck. I’m going to be honest I only grabbed this particular newspaper because of it’s convenience and because it was free. For some unexplainable reason I didn’t think it would … Continue reading “Newspaper Markup”
For the newspaper assignment I grabbed The Norman Transcript and found most the elements on the front page. I did not find a subhead or pull quote but all the other main elements were there.
It’s Open Season on Coaches in NBA, NBA, February 7, 2016 Eli Manning gives reasonable explanation for blank stare during Super Bowl 50, Fox News Sports, February 9, 2016 New York Knicks Fire Coach Derek Fisher, Fox News Sports, February 9, 2016 Cam Newton: No regrets on Super Bowl news conference, Charlotte Observer, February 9, … Continue reading PR Writing: Mini Media Monitoring Exercise →
Whew – that sure was a boot camp with a lot of information! In this assignment, I was asked to review the basics in both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. I was then asked to complete a typesetting assignment in Adobe InDesign. We used Lynda.com to view this material. Lynda.com is such a great tool … Continue reading “Boot Camp”
This markup was fairly simple, yet incredibly informative! We were asked to find and identify certain things on a newspaper.
The only downside was that there were no subheads or jumplines included on this front page.
For this assignment, we were asked to duplicate an Adobe InDesign document to the best of our ability. It was great practice and insight into the tools we’ll be using over the semester. Here’s the original. And this one is mine!
Three ideas I took away from chapter two of the textbook are as follows: “Illiteracy does not breed respect.” I absolutely love this quote. I believe that it, and the section it was written in, perfectly explain why there should be more emphasis on learning to speak and write properly. I have always been “turned-off” … Continue reading PR Writing: Chapter 2 →
This week we were asked to watch a series of videos about Photoshop and InDesign and the then create a template newsletter. We also looked at typesetting and marked up a newspaper outlining different terms. At first I was intimated by this lesson and I was afraid I would be awful at it. I was […]
This week we were asked to complete more client research. We did the google trends analysis and the client competitor analysis. These were used to represent how our client is portrayed in society and the competitors it deals with. I found google trends helpful because it showed the trends that were present according to … Continue reading “Lesson 3- PR Writing”
