Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Term 3, Week 2, Pasteup
Andy is standing at the podium reading memos from Amanda's phone. Amanda is laying on the table laughing. Jake is sitting at a table trying to get his homework done. And Jon, I'm not really sure what he is doing. I think he is hugging Andy.
It's 9:18 p.m. and we have one page left to finish. Most of the 24 staff members are at home sleeping or doing homework. As far as time is concerned, the pasteup wasn't too bad. As far as quality, it was not good. There are too many simple, basic errors. Several pages had spacing issues, no equal spacing between elements. Cutlines stated the obvious. Stories were confusing to read, no real focus.
I had to yell today. In fact, I got angry. This morning when I came in, there were many pages that had big pieces missing.
Okay, it's not pasteup anymore. In fact it's Sunday and the paper came out two days ago. We got lots of great feedback on the sex spread and Trisha Leu story. Elizabeth was so excited her face was bright red and she had trouble making complete sentences when she was telling me about her day. It was nice to be the adviser then.
Overall, the Spokesman kids did it again. It looked like disaster on Tuesday during the day. By the end of the night, they got their stuff together and put out a terrific issue. Now, was it because I got mad? Or did I get mad too early? I guess we'll have to try an experiment next time.
It's 9:18 p.m. and we have one page left to finish. Most of the 24 staff members are at home sleeping or doing homework. As far as time is concerned, the pasteup wasn't too bad. As far as quality, it was not good. There are too many simple, basic errors. Several pages had spacing issues, no equal spacing between elements. Cutlines stated the obvious. Stories were confusing to read, no real focus.
I had to yell today. In fact, I got angry. This morning when I came in, there were many pages that had big pieces missing.
Okay, it's not pasteup anymore. In fact it's Sunday and the paper came out two days ago. We got lots of great feedback on the sex spread and Trisha Leu story. Elizabeth was so excited her face was bright red and she had trouble making complete sentences when she was telling me about her day. It was nice to be the adviser then.
Overall, the Spokesman kids did it again. It looked like disaster on Tuesday during the day. By the end of the night, they got their stuff together and put out a terrific issue. Now, was it because I got mad? Or did I get mad too early? I guess we'll have to try an experiment next time.
