Extended Project 2010 » Kirk Kemp

The Client

Kirk Kemp — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:51:00 +0000

This is the sheet that we were given as a group which explained who our client was for this project:

We are producing the newspaper for Jenny Grahame who is at the english and media centre.

Jenny will be distrubuting our newspaper via the english and media website but only if it meets their requierments.

Here is a photo of Jenny Grahame at the english and media centre in London:

We will also be seeking advice and information from Julian Mcdougal who is the principle examiner for the OCR A2 media studies

The Client

Kirk Kemp — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:51:00 +0000

This is the sheet that we were given as a group which explained who our client was for this project:

We are producing the newspaper for Jenny Grahame who is at the english and media centre.

Jenny will be distrubuting our newspaper via the english and media website but only if it meets their requierments.

Here is a photo of Jenny Grahame at the english and media centre in London.

(Infront of her there are issues of the media magazine) :

We will also be seeking advice and information from Julian Mcdougal who is the principle examiner for the OCR A2 media studies

Prezi – Project plan

Kirk Kemp — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Shown below is the brief project plan for the extended project which I created on:

http://www.prezi.com/

Extended Project - Schedule / Plan on Prezi

Feedback from Jenny Grahame (The client)

Kirk Kemp — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:20:00 +0000

Alex (liason) has recently recieved feedback from Jenny which he has sent onto the others within the group (including myself). Shown below is the feedback we recieved from Jenny

Dear Alexander and team

I just wanted (very belatedly) to congratulate you on a magnficent
achievement in getting the newspaper together to deadline and in such a
clear and attractive format. It looks very good, and as you probably
already know, schools are gagging for it - not an easy market to break into,
so well done to all of you. Am currently rounding up a long list of orders -
given the declining state of the newspaper industry, you appear to be
bucking a trend, which is rather brilliant!

Best wishes, and very good luck to you all

Jenny

I am very pleased with the feedback from Jenny as it clearly shows her raw appreciation for what we have done and also the sense that she feels as if there will be a future for the newspaper (when she speaks about the newspaper industry) which of course is a very good thing as it means that we may be able to carry on producing / printing the newspaper in order to gain a higher profit purhaps. Overall Jenny's feedback is very positive and I am pleased with the outcome of the newspaper evenmore so after viewing / reading through the feedback from our client (Jenny Grahame)

Mikes blog post

Kirk Kemp — Tue, 04 May 2010 08:29:00 +0000

Mike has posted on the main blog page. His blog post explains to people in the class where they can find my videos which I created for this project in order for them to place onto their own personal project blogs.

Here is a screen shot of mikes blog post on the main blog page:

2nd set of feedback

Kirk Kemp — Tue, 04 May 2010 08:16:00 +0000

Shown below is the 2nd lot of feedback I have recieved from mike

Feedback on newspaper

Kirk Kemp — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:33:00 +0000

We have recieved some feedback from the people who have purchased copies of our mediame newspaper, shown below is the feedback we recieved.

“We've just put the undergroundmap on the wall and are fighting about who is on the coolest line(that's teachers not students by the way!) Initial reaction is that we can't wait to use it in the classroom -could be a few more bigger images in there...We'll use it with students next week (weds) and email you some morefeedback”

Mary Berrisford, Islington

“MediaMe looks great. Works really well with the colour, etc. Megaachievement.”

Jenny Grahame

"Good on section 1"

"Methodical systematic and detailed"

"Very concise to the point"

"Very clearly expressed"

"Wordsearch page blurry"

"Wikipedia game Already played by lots of class good -article- less obviously useful than others"

"Useful - better than a textbook"

"Great format"

"Tube map great"

"Format handy"

"Teacher prefers online to print -students like print far more"

"Layout really good"

"Is point about TV not needing a licence true?"

All above points / quotes From Reigate College

Accounts – financial

Kirk Kemp — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:10:00 +0000

Shown below are the costs for this project (MediaMe newspaper)

Outgoing costs (Money out) :

Cost for 500 copies from newspaper club (printers) : £500 including VAT

Postage cost for first three orders : £11.40

Income (Money in)

Junction advert : £350

Lincoln university advert : £100

OCR advert : £100

Guernsey Grammar purchased -> 20 copies : £10

Reigate purchased -> 120 copies : £60

Islington purchased -> 40 copies : £20

Netherhall purchased -> 30 copies : £15

free samples and copies for media group members & moderator : 50 Copies

The total amount that we have received so far from selling copies and getting adverts is : £655

Which means we currently have a profit of: £145 (Aprox)

After looking over our account information we have realised that we still need to sell 240 copies of our mediame newspaper in order to sell all of our newspapers.

Overall I believe that we have done very well, financially we are stable and we have currently made a profit and we are in the position whereby we are selling copies of mediame which of course will increase are overall profit for the project.

Project Evaluation

Kirk Kemp — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:07:00 +0000

Project Evaluation

My personal reflection on the overall project

Overall I believe that this project has been one of the most successful projects throughout the whole media course. People have worked productivily in order to produce the newspaper on time for the deadline, unlike other projects where it has been very hectic near the end of the project this one has been very easy going and everyone has stuck to the dealines very well, which meant that there was no unesacary rushing near the end of the project which was good and built up the moral of the group, this also meant that my job as 'schedules manager' has been succesful in the fact that everyone has managed to get the work complete on time.

How pleased am I personally with my contribution to this project?

During the course of this project I have worked constructivly and I believe that I adapted to my role almost straight away. The main factor which meant that I could work effectivily within my role was that I organised a variety of activities for each group to do within the project. For example obne activity which I set up was 'the question box' this activity engaged the whole group and made sure that everyone was working together effectivily and productivily. I made sure that this activity was done near the start of the project as I believe it was very important that the group engage with each other at the early stages in order to work productivly throughout the rest of the project.

Another factor which meant that I had succeded within my personal role was the fact that I manged to ensure that everyone was informed about the dealines at the early stages of the project. In order to make sure that every one was informed of the deadlines I created a poster which showed clearly the deadlines for the project, Once I created the poster I stuck it onto the wall and made sure that everyone was informed about the location of the poster so that they could view it and see when things are due in.

Overall I believe that I have worked effectivly within my role and within this project, if anything I could of maybe been more verbal and spoken to people more about the deadlines etc but apart from that overall I believe that I have worked effectivly and productivly within my role during the course of this project and everyone stuck to the scehdule as I instructed so overall this project was a successfull one.

How did other people work within their groups / roles?

After the structure was sorted for the organisation of the groups everyone set to work on working within their seperate roles. At the start of the project people were a bit reluctant to work within their given roles naturally this is what happens at the start of any project where there is an organisational structure but people within the groups soon adapted to their individual roles and managed to adapt themselves to their groups and work effictvly within them.

The leaders of each group havge worked very well in order to get their individual teams / groups up and running. There were tree groups & The quality control team. It was the red, blue and gold teams job to work on the articles for the newspaper and it was the quality control team taht checked that the jobs were getting done and also that the material was of a high enough standard for the specification and also the newspaper. There was also a liason role which Alex was for this project and I strongly believe that Alex done a very good job within this role and managed to keep constant contact with the clients and other people such ast he advertisers, and when they did not respond on time Alex would chase them up about this and would gain a faster repsonse from the client / advertisers.

As far as individual people within the group I believe that everyone worked effectivly and productivly during the course of this project.

What have I learnt from this project?

Overall after this project I have learnt / gained a variety of things, which include:

Time management skills have increased
Orgainisation skils have increased
Comunication skills have increased
I have learnt to create activities for the group which has bosted my moral and persona sense of achievement
I have learnt about the structure of a newspaper company and also how to work more professionaly within a workin enviroment
I have also learnt how to get a product finsiehd on time for a client
Working productivly as part of a team

What have I learnt from previous projects?

I have learnt a variety of things from past projects which are very closely linked to the factors above things such as:

Organisational skills have incresed
Time management / organisation skills
Working productivly within a team
Working to a clients brief and producing a product on time and to their standards
Creative skills have increased such as photo and video editing

Newspaper – Finished Product

Kirk Kemp — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:30:00 +0000

Newspaper Finished product

After recieving the finished newspaper I can clearly see straight away that it looks very profesional and also has the feeling of a student made newspaper.

How well does the newspaper meet our original ideas / intentions?

Our original ideas for the newspaper were to have plenty of visuals and also to have information which links to the exam, the main idea was for each group / persons to write articles about subjects that relate to the exam itself, for example 'media in the online age' and the 'Time to turn off your TV for good?' written by Tara & Matt. Also the step by step guide to question 1a' by James links directly to the exam and gives some uselful advice, there were also some other articles which linked to the exam and were very usefull for students for revision purposes, which was what we wanted from the newspaper at the end of the project.

Overall the finished product / newspaper in some cases reaches our original plans / expectations but unfortunatly in some cases it doesn't. The main thing which makes the newspaper a good resource for revision is the fact that it is in a simple layout with some very uselful information within it such as:

Revision tips
Useful facts and figures for people to use within their exam
Relevant information
Information displayed within diagrams / images

On the other hand there were some significant down sides to our finsihed nespaper, things such as:

Some articles are lacking images
Articles are not always consistant in style
Font style is not always the same
Some articles do not relate to the exam
Not enough specific reference to the exam itself
Some articles are lacking facts and figures

Overall the newspaper is in mny opinion very good considering the time we had to work on it, I strongly believe that if we had more time then we could of amended the above things which were wrong with the newspaper but overall I believe considering the time which we had for this project we done very well indeed but of course there were problems with the finished product which I belive would of been apparent even if we did have more time.

Here is a video I created which hsows our finished newspaper / product: