crafty_tardis: ah, the joys of being on my school newspaper!

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griggharris) wrote in

crafty_tardis,
@ 2008-05-12 18:53:00

ah, the joys of being on my school newspaper!
Does this count as crafty? I don't know, but I feel pretty proud of my accomplishment. Ever wanted to do something DW-related for a school assignment? Well, I did!

So I'm a journalism major, and for my final in my newspaper production class, we had to write a story, take or acquire pictures and process them (TIFF formatting, CMYK, 300 dpi, etc), and then after all that, design a page in our newspaper program, Quark. In... two hours. Thankfully, we could write the story on anything we wanted (feature, hard/soft news, just so long as we wrote it). So I chose... ah what else...

Ok, so the article kind of sucks and it's scattered with typos here and there as I couldn't have other eyes look over it. Some of the pictures are colored and some are grayscaled because I was under the clock and sometimes my instincts go out the window when I'm under a time crunch. Sadly, it wont ever make the real paper since it was just proof that we can design a page in super quick time. But doesn't it make you wish there was a DW newspaper? Hmm... The TARDIS Times?

~~(Fingers crossed I get an A)~~ I got an A!

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	$Lisa Moulton: \O/$ gigs_83 2008-05-13 02:02 am UTC (link)
	Awesome!! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-05-13 02:08 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	blinovitch 2008-05-13 02:03 am UTC (link)
	But doesn't it make you wish there was a DW newspaper though? Hmm... The TARDIS Times? There kinda was for a while. The Friends of Doctor Who used to publish a quarterly newsletter laid out just like a newspaper, with a masthead, "Continued on page...", articles above and below the fold and everything. Nicely done, by the way! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-05-13 02:08 am UTC (link)
	That's awesome. I love classic newspaper style, if only because it's classic. Thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	vandonovan 2008-05-13 02:09 am UTC (link)
	It seems very strange to me that One, Four, Five, Six and Seven are in black and white while the rest are in color. I think if you couldn't find color photos for all the Doctors (though why you couldn't is beyond me, as there are plenty for all of them) you should have greyscaled the rest to match. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-05-13 02:10 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I realize that now really, but my brain was mad scattered. Like I said, I was on the clock and I had to find the pictures and process them, plus go with pictures that were relative hires. In retrospect, I would have done a million other things. Edited at 2008-05-13 02:11 am UTC (Reply to this)(Parent)

	garillama 2008-05-13 02:20 am UTC (link)
	That bugged me, too! Mostly because most (or all? I'm not sure) of Two's episodes were black and white, but he had his pic in color while the others were black and white ;) But that's pretty nitpicky for a two-hour assignment. Good job! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-05-13 02:21 am UTC (link)
	Eh, like I said, it was more time constraints, aha. It would have taken one click to have gone grayscale on all of them, but my brain = out the window. I think if I had more time, I would have gotten hires, colored images. Still, thank you! Edited at 2008-05-13 02:22 am UTC (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	garillama 2008-05-13 02:26 am UTC (link)
	Oh, not to worry. It's totally OCD on my part :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-05-13 02:28 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I'm OCD, too. Believe me, it's so hard to work on a newspaper and make mistakes and have your mistakes in print! ACK! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	garillama 2008-05-13 07:09 am UTC (link)
	Congrats on the A! You deserve it! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Random Facts Department fallen_scholar 2008-05-13 02:48 am UTC (link)
	All of twos were black and white. The first color episode is the first episode of 3, though after that they went to black and white again, flipping around on occasion that first season of 3 until finally going all color. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Random Facts Department garillama 2008-05-13 03:05 am UTC (link)
	Thanks! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	angel932 2008-05-13 02:24 am UTC (link)
	I'm very impressed with what you did in just two hours! Let us know what grade you get! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-05-13 02:29 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! I shall if it's any good, aha. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jigsawdiva 2008-05-13 02:25 am UTC (link)
	As a former journalist myself, I doff my cap to you! Well done! I hope your classmates are cool enough to appreciate it! I'm glad you're spreading the gospel of Doctor Who to the next generation. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-05-13 02:29 am UTC (link)
	All of my classmates know I'm a major angophile, so they pretty much think I'm mental, but so be it, aha. I have to stick to what I know. Thanks for the feedback :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sea0tter12 2008-05-13 02:46 am UTC (link)
	Very nice! I wish we had the choice to pick our subjects when I had to do a news page project like this when I was in school :) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-05-13 02:57 am UTC (link)
	My professor is pretty lenient sometimes. It's pretty awesome. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	capemaynuts 2008-05-13 03:02 am UTC (link)
	Wow, its better written and looks better then some of the articles I've been seeing in my local 'real' newspaper lately. Great job! Hope you get a good grade for it! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-05-13 03:03 am UTC (link)
	AW, thank you! Like I said, there are a few typos because I wrote it so quickly without a beta-er, but I think overall, it turned out OK aside from a few things. Thank you! I hope so too! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hurricaneoflove 2008-05-13 03:03 am UTC (link)
	Looks damn good to me. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-05-13 03:04 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tgjerusalem 2008-05-13 03:11 am UTC (link)
	SQUEE!! That's adorable! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-05-13 03:13 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

knitchick1979
2008-05-13 04:22 am UTC (link)

That looks amazing!!! Great job!!

I like the way you centered the Doctor/Donna shot, it makes a nice impact. And the shots of all ten Doctors is a nice touch!

Of course...goes to show you how long I spent on my college newspaper doing copyediting and production....my eye immediately went to check if the columns of text lined up. *shakes head* Old habits die hard.

Actually I have to say for as long as I spent doing Production I doubt I could make something that nice in two hours. There's a reason I called the program PAINmaker!

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	griggharris 2008-05-13 04:43 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! Hopefully you didn't notice my slightly problematic spacing in certain paragraphs. It was hard to do it under the time crunch, but time crunches are a part of life. Thank you again! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rjdaae 2008-05-13 02:11 pm UTC (link)
	Looks great! Congratulations on the A! :D (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2008-05-13 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	Nicely done! :D (Reply to this)

	dozmuffinxc 2008-06-24 02:07 am UTC (link)
	As a former reporter and editor for my own Alma Mater's newspaper, I give you major kudos for this! Now I'm just jealous that I never thought to do anything similar... ^_^ (Reply to this)(Thread)

	griggharris 2008-06-24 02:12 am UTC (link)
	Aw, TYSM for the feedback! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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