Reflection on Major Project and Website

 Article:

As I mentioned on a previous blogpost, I thought that it would be so hard for me to write a 1000 word article so I decided to choose a wide topic hoping that it would enable me to talk about many aspects and reach the word count. I wanted to talk about something interesting and relevant to today's world. So I narrowed it down to something close to my progression route, and that would give me a better understanding of Media Studies. A Feature news article is certainly more complex to write than a normal news article because it uses creativity together with facts. In this project I learned the difference between the 2 styles of writing and this improved my knowledge and writing skills if I have to write a future news article in the future. The main challenge I faced was adjusting the style of language  because in my other modules I was taught to write in an academic way. I think the final outcome of the writing is quite good and I've been trying to do my best but I think It could have been better in terms of language. I think the way I organized the information from my sources and the interview is good because I discussed different aspects in a logical way rather than different pieces of scattered information. If I consider the photographs, I am disappointed with my main image of Bettina, Rea and Konrad because the image appears slightly blurred or lower quality compared to the image of Bettina alone which I think is much better. I am not sure why this happened because both images were shot the same way and edited with the same software. I think that maybe when I uploaded the image on the website it lowered the resolution because on my 'Photograph Editing' blogpost it looks pretty normal.



Website:


At first I had the fear that my website was too blank, too simple and lacked images. I struggled finding the right image from the background strip on the home page because it would cut most of them out. I had doubts because the image reflected the purpose of the website, showing people what it was about but it wasn't so appealing. After many tries I decided that this image would be the best choice because a journalist's website shouldn't be as fancy the website of a  Designer or Illustrator but I still wasn't completely sure of the website's look. When my peers responded positively on the layout and look of my website through the UX  Feedback, I felt relieved. Now that I have uploaded my article, photographs and added a News grid or (board) on my portfolio page I think that the website is well made.
Creating and customizing the website was generally easy, although it took time.

The major project (article and website) has helped me become familiar with different digital softwares such as Lightroom which I have never used before.