For the most part my students go with a modular design, we like to work with grids and make square and rectangle packages. I worry though that our pages our boring. Most of the time we have a headline, story, pulled quote and picture. We don't play with sizes, we can't afford color. One page after the other looks the same.
I am sucking in everything Tracy says, trying to burn into my memory the samples he shared. I want to go back and liven up our paper. Yes, we can have a traditional paper but we can also have some fun with it.
I'm going to make my kids compile design clip books, the good and the bad. They need to be looking for examples everywhere. We need to be playing with and trying new things. I want to shake up our paper this year.
Emily Miller
Arlington High School
Arlington, Texas
Some of the most effective feedback I have received in newspaper critiques has been in the area of design. The criticism is always followed with advice on how to improve.
ReplyDeleteIt hurts, but at least you know what you need to work on.
Thomas Curran
Grace King High School
Metairie, La
You don't want to say you are "sucking" in the session now that that word has been so completely taken over by our speaker. I hate the term the way he (and all my kids) used it, but he used it so much that I almost forgot how I hate it.
ReplyDeleteOur paper is really boring, at least from my point of view. I am going to push page design much harder this year.
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R.L. Turner
Carrollton, TX