Division of work

In order for everything to be really organized, I think that we should assign key roles for people. Some people are more familiar with InDesign and photoshop so I think they should be the key people who work on layout. That doesn't necessarily mean that anyone else can't work on a layout however. Then for the graphics and illustrations, people who are better at those tasks should be assigned those tasks. Same goes for editing and so on. That way people can have key roles but yet having the opportunity to do more than just one task.

Day Two =]

So yesterday went really well. I think we all had really good ideas that all came together to make a good general outline. "The Amplifier" is hip yet rockstarish.I am somewhat disappointed at how horrible my mock front page came out but Im here to actually learn how to do that better for next year so whatev. Cant wait to get started today!

Groups or By Yourself???

Well, we are going to start working on the actual newspaper tomorrow and we need to decide if we should work in groups or do our own thing. I think we should do groups so people can learn from others and so the paper turns out more uniform.

Day 2

Today was pretty good i learned how to layout a basic news paper front which was pretty cool... I got along with my partners fine and we created a title for the newspaper...Its a surprise you are going to have to wait lol....hopefully i will be able to contribute more to the newspaper...Graphic Design was alright....I think i can get used to it :)

Day 2

I think it would be a good idea for us to have a few copy editors before we start placing stories on the page and then maybe make each person responsible for a page or two (or three). Each person could go through the process of designing a page from start to finish, and we would have to take responsibility for each individual page. If we don't do that, I think we should assign each section to a group of a few people so that everyone can get experienced with each part of the process.

Day2

I agree with the divide and conquer philosophy. Either partners or our groups of three from earlier would work. But, I feel like while we are working we should all STILL be communicating in order for the paper to flow well. By the end, we should read over other groups' work one-by-one to assure that it is satifactory. Making sure we are all on the same page (figuratively of course) needs to be our top priority. :)

Day 2- How to go about this...

Honestly, I've never worked on a newspaper, only a yearbook, so I'm not familiar with the newspaper designing process, but I think the best way to get things done effectively would be to get in groups of maybe twos. Each group could be mainly responsible for a certain part of the process such as one for graphics/fonts, placement of stories/layouts, and headlines/drop heads/etc. After we've made decisions for our individual areas, we could consult each other in case there are any major objections/suggestions. Final editing could fall to one or two detail people along with Mrs. Corbin. That's the gist of how I think we should go about making the paper... divide and conquer.