edits received
My first year on staff, I received a student life spread about skipping class for my assignment. As a responsible student, I have never purposely skipped class a day in my life. Unsure of where to start for this story, editors helped me find people to interview that skipped frequently. Once I had sufficient interviews, I gained a better idea of where I could take the angle and wrote the best story I could. I turned it in for the first time feeling confident, only to receive a page of edits back from each editor I turned in to. Naturally, I felt disappointed in myself but I used it as a learning opportunity to understand how to write an effective, informative and factual article about something unfamiliar to me. A real journalist must write about things they don't know about or feel one hundred percent confident in all the time, which is why I am ultimately grateful for this challenge. Not meeting this deadline pushed me to become a better yearbook staffer and natural observer. It tested my time management skills, which prepared me for my role as Editor-in-Chief. Before this deadline, I preferred to work alone, but writing this story forced me to seek help from others. Without this deadline assignment, I don't think I would have had as large of a drive to prove myself to my adviser that I could be the Junior Editor-in-Chief the following year.
published in the 2019 Legend Yearbook
published in the 2019 Legend Yearbook
The body copy and mod design needed edits. With the angle centered around girls supporting the boy's varsity volleyball team, the story needed strong restructuring and lowered redundancy to achieve that angle. Working with another staffer, L'Wren Johnson, we completed the edits and made a more angle-focused story. As for the design edits, the modular element on the left side needed rearranging. We completed this spread for the Spring Supplement, which served as the last deadline of the school year. Working on this spread taught me to remain detail-oriented and remember basic yearbook skills even when I felt rushed.
published in the 2019 Legend Yearbook
published in the 2019 Legend Yearbook
While working with CVT, which operated remotely, I received edits from the design team virtually. For this flyer, the design team lead, Chloe, wanted me to reorganize the portraits of the speakers for this event, which I effectively completed in the final product shown at the right.
posted on @panel2people |
This is another example of virtual edits I received over Google Drive for CVT. Assigned the task of creating an Instagram post, I pictured this data visualization regarding Unemployment v. Pollution in California while following CVT's design style. While I received minimal edits, it challenged me to design quality work without verbal communication from the person giving me edits. I also wrote the caption for the Instagram post.
posted on @cov.viz |