In reflection of this week, I am pleased with my article I wrote considering the time we had.

Firstly, I believe that the article itself was put together and written in a professional way.

For example, using skills learnt in the last couple of years, I managed to put together the piece quickly – something that I have noticeably improved on recently. I came to the session with my photos and quotes ready – which meant I could piece these together to form the article easily, proving that I have developed good journalism skills.

I also followed the ‘inverted pyramid’ structure and put the most important information at the top of the article, and the less important information towards the bottom – another journalism skill I have learnt to apply in my work.

Although I could have improved on some things, I believe I did the following well:

• I am happy with the quotes that I got
• I think the article reads well
• I tried to make it sound interesting and professional

Despite this, I would have done a number of things differently. If I were given this task again, I would have tried to follow the task more accurately, representing a ‘day in the life’ – rather than just putting together a general piece about the shop owner because it was rather vague, and was almost like an profile piece.

However, to counteract this I changed the headline to make it more relevant to the piece I’d written, and despite not following the brief as accurately as I’d liked, I do believe the article makes sense and the new headline makes for an interesting piece.

To conclude, I am still enjoying the module a lot. I am definitely looking forward to the next few weeks, where we will start to work on our photography skills and hopefully learn more about the photojournalism industry.

 

To read my article ‘What it’s like to work in the independent music scene’ click here.