This week was the most challenging and time consuming week, but it was also the most enjoyable. I really liked designing a newsletter for a company I actually have interest in. I also felt like I knew what it was supposed to look like, where as with the direct mailer and business card I had […]
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Final Newsletters!!
Finally we have accomplished the final draft of a newsletter! While I am happy about not being in the computer lab for hours, I am very proud of myself for completing a full and decent newsletter. This past week I planned out my schedule so I would have enough time in the computer lab to give … Continue reading Final Newsletters!! →
Reflection 4.1
This past week we learned about Public Service Announcements and how to write them. When I took Writing for Mass Media, I developed some sort of idea on how to write for broadcast. I find these assignments to be pretty fun however I always have sort of trouble with the “SFX”. I also second guess … Continue reading Reflection 4.1 →
Apple Newsletter
1. What were you asked to do? 2. How did you respond to what you were asked to do? 3. How did react to what you actually did? 4. Now go one level deeper: Why do you think your reaction was what it was? Supplemental questions: How did your target public affect your overall content and…
PR Pub Unit 5.1 Reflection – Finished Newsletter
This week we finished our newsletters! I have only made one newsletter before. I loved creating it but had to use Word since I didn’t have or know how to use any of the Adobe apps. Now that we have learned how to use InDesign, I will never go back. It made it so much easier to […]
Read All About It
In this unit, we were to put the finishing touches on our newsletters. If you’ll remember, in the previous post, I noted how I was going to do mine over stories that involve Apple. In short, this project was a lot more difficult than I originally thought it was going to be. Everything from making…
5.1 Reflection
Fourth design project is complete! I can finally breathe!!! For our fourth design project, we were asked to pick a 500 Fortune Company to create a newsletter for. I decided to create a newsletter for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Once we picked our company, we were to gather at least four stories from their […]
Nike News: The Attempt at Creating a Newsletter
This week we continued working on our Newsletters. I chose to work with Nike thinking it would be easy, I mean how could working with one of the largest athletic brands be hard? I was wrong. I found creating a layout that fit all content was much more difficult than expected. And once I had […]
Reflection 5.2
As we were warned, this week was a lot of work. Despite the thorough planning put…
Reflecting on unit 5.1
This unit we were asked to pick a Fortune 500 company and then create a newsletter for them. I chose Nordstrom as my company. We were able to use prewritten stories in our newsletter as long as we included 3. We had specific guidelines of what needed to be included in our newsletter. We were […]
