Skills Development- Article For Law

A law teacher at my college has asked for guest writers to write about how law affects their subject for a magazine they wish to do. I decided to do this article with Creative Enterprise in mind and wrote about how the law affects the enterprise I created and the short film I had to do.

After writing the article I sent it to my teacher to help edit it. With the edits she made, I edited again so it felt more personal but also kept all the things my teacher said it would need. With my teacher editing the article, I was able to get advice on what to include, and what I can get away with not mentioning.

The Article:

First Magazine Issue

Skills Development- Short Stories Collection

Writing a short story

I had an idea for a short story for a while that related to my theme. I decided on a comedy that utilised a power that many people would not wish to get. The protagonist, a young male in America, finds himself in a dangerous, ish, situation and his only means of stopping the antagonist is with his power of curing hiccups. Yes hiccups. 

Collecting Stories

As suggested by my teacher, I wrote an email to send out for short stories. I sent it to her to send to the correct person in the English Department, but despite this it proved no results. The email is good for future emails of the same nature. 

(I believe it did not get sent out because the email I used was unknown and created for the magazine.)

With this proving no results, I asked those I knew. They were up for the task and to make it more professional, I sent them a written consent form to sign. 

The written consent form was as followed:

I created the consent form by using online consent forms of the same nature and tried to make it look professional. If the business gets more developed, this will be edited to suit the bigger submissions.

Feedback for stories

I wrote feedback underneath each story for the writers. This will be published alongside their stories. By keeping my business values in mind, I kept the feedback critical but not harsh. I remember a teacher told me of the sandwich method, a positive then a negative then another positive, and I used that to not sound harsh. I mostly had good things to write about. 

Read the stories here: https://holliebraithwaitel4creativeenterprise.blogspot.com/2020/05/first-magazine-issue.html 

Skills Development- Writing Articles

Introduction

For my enterprise, Insert Magazine, I had to write various articles on the topics I chose. These were on Book Reviews, Game Reviews, Movie Reviews and The Local Area. The longest article I wrote for the magazine was Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe and Deadpool Killustrated. This was due to the fact it was in two parts, and I wrote about both of them in detail.

Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe and Deadpool Killustrated

I spent the longest on this article. As I was writing it, I found out that I was not clear on whether something I was writing was factual or what I really thought of it and so I decided to reread the stories in the comic book. I wrote about whether I agreed with a plot point, what I liked and disliked about it and about a tiny bit of realism in the comic. I enjoyed writing this article, despite the distractions,  and I tried to make my article interesting to read. On the next book review, however, I will go more into the relatable and more realistic side of the story, such as depictions of mental health, as I decided to do this but added it in as a side thought at the end.  

Shopping During Covid-19

I originally thought of this idea as the Important Topic article, but decided it would fit more with The Local Area segment. I wrote about multiple experiences shopping during the lock-down, and my opinions on it. I felt the article was too boring as |I was writing it, so decided to add in some tips. If I were to write this next time, I may research online for some guidance on how to make this kind of story telling more intriguing. I believe writing multiple articles will help develop my writing skills as practising my writing style and putting words to paper will help more than doing nothing.

Spider-Man PS4

This article may be the shortest, but it was the most fun to write. I had a lot of different things to talk about for this article, where other articles lacked much change. To develop this kind of article in the future, I may research more gaming terminology and points to use, and this will hopefully increase the size of the article. 

The Guardians of The Galaxy Vol 2

This was the last article I wrote and I did not put much thought in it. I did search for pointers to help me write it from the internet, and used this website for help. 

https://answershark.com/writing/creating-review/how-to-write-movie-review.html

With the help from the website, I was able to generate a in depth article on the movie. I did not write about casting and camera angles, which would have been interesting to add, as I did not know much about these points. The website helped me develop a better understanding of movie reviews and its content which helped me develop my reviews writing more than just writing the article alone.


Read the articles here: https://holliebraithwaitel4creativeenterprise.blogspot.com/2020/05/first-magazine-issue.html

Skills Development- Editing Articles

I asked my sister to write an article for me. This allowed for me, the editor, to try editing an article. The first thing I did was sort out the grammar and spelling mistakes in the article. I then sorted out any mistakes that happened either because my sister wasn't being careful or there was an error when she emailed me the word document. Another thing I did was add or took away words I did not think were needed. I also changed some of her bullet points to be more colourful, changed the format and added in pictures.

Unedited article

 The unedited section of the article was riddled in mistakes that Word picked up on. I sorted these out as suggested and made all the words the same colour and size as each other. The format of this was in columns, which I didn't want her article to be filled with, so I changed it to the normal words format.

Edited Article 

The edited section had all the mistakes corrected. I kept the words used the same my sister had written as there was no problems with it. As I said the format was changed to the usual words formatting.

Unedited Article

 The main issue that her article had was this unnatural spacing between her paragraph. There was also an issue with the first sentence, which I did not have an idea on how to edit it, so I kept it the same. The after thought of "who I call goblins" felt like it made the sentence harder to read so I put that in a bracket. I erased the "of this virus" as I believe people already know about the changes.

Edited Article

The edited version was still kept in the column format, as I believed it would make the magazine nicer to look at. (Most of the other articles are in the word format) The bullet point was changed to a more creative one, to add more colour onto the page. The gap is gone, which makes the paragraph make more sense when someone reads it.

Unedited Article

The unedited Article had some mistakes that I corrected. I disliked the "1" and "3" as they were numbers instead of words, so I changed that to their word form.  I also saw an opportunity to cut this in half and add in pictures that related to what she was talking about in the article.

Edited Article

The edited versions had the appropriate changes I hoped to make. The pictures I added are from a Facebook Messenger phone call I had with my sister, and I think they may make someone laugh whilst reading the article. I also added pictures of her room  cleaned after the paragraph with her mentioning it being cleaned. The edited version has a bracket with "Which I did", which I added to show everyone that my sister had kept it clean and also to keep the article in the past tense.

Edited Article

Editing this article proved fun, and there was not much challenge with it. I believe if I had more skill with editing articles, I would have improved it more than a few grammar and spelling mistakes and added pictures.

Read the edited article here: https://holliebraithwaitel4creativeenterprise.blogspot.com/2020/05/first-magazine-issue.html

Marketing Poster for Level 4 Creative Enterprise Course

For the course, someone in marketing at my College asked for posters. These will be used to advertise the course for the next years student. As a writer I made the design of my poster relate to this. I wrote a little too much in the boxes but there is enough details on there for a student who wishes to join the course to know about. I changed a few of the questions, creating a whole new one I thought would be more useful for someone interested in this course. Instead of a picture of myself as was asked, I used the script I helped write during the course as I believe that will be more interesting than my face. The icons that I used were free on Canva and I think it turned out well.

To improve it, I believe more colour should have been added to the page. However, I think there is enough on there to catch someone's attention online.

My Other Work Experience: Archant and National Centre For Writing

Archant LTD

My work experience with Archant was for the week commencing 16th March to 20th March. I went to my work experience on Monday the 16th and as I was early, I stayed by the shops for a while. I heard an announcement from Castle Quarter about washing your hands regularly, which was not there before the virus. I went to Archant earlier than nine-fifteen, and went to reception to tell them I was there. They called for the person who was in charge of me that day and I waited for him. He took me into the office, told me of their situation, with about half of the staff working from home, and I was seated at a computer. I was given a laptop which they use for all their work experience students and had to wait for their meeting. After the meeting, which was interesting, I was told to observe the shopping area and shops and report about how people were acting, if there was any signs about and what shops were missing from their shelves. I came back to the building and had to write up my thoughts on what was happening, like a news article. I finished this after lunch and then was told because of the virus I could no longer do my work experience and I shouldn't have really came up. I got upset about this news, but knew it was no one's fault. I hope to complete the work experience after everything settles down. 

I can not use the article for evidence as it belongs to Archant and the pictures I took I also sent as well. I did however, take a small video of a wooden man playing with a drum kit in a shop window. 

National Centre for Writing

I got an email on the 6th of February about a workshop at a primary school on the 26th March. After discussing it with my teacher, as it was on a Thursday, I replied and said I could help out. It got closer to the time and I got an email about who I would be working with and it asked the person to send me detail about what would happen on the day. On Monday 16th of March, after the work experience, I went to Dragon Hall to hand in my DBS form.I told the person I was emailing that I believed the workshop would unlikely go ahead and I got an email later that week saying the school cancelled because of social distancing and the virus. Lock-down started on the 23rd of March, and I am certain I wont be able to do any workshops before the course ends.