Critical Reflective Report

In this critical reflection, I will make an objective evaluation of what the course learned by the Advanced Journalism Skills in the spring semester. I also will talk about the problem I met during this process and the solution I took. In this course, we learned how to re-write and shape journalists' copies for print and online versions and how to use InDesign for layout to create a spread in a magazine. we completed a magazine spread whilst working with a team and worked towards a timed in-class exercise to create and completed the magazine. Our magazine style is based on the design of the BBC FOCUS, Time and other magazines. In addition, it incorporated the creative elements of our group, which eventually formed a magazine that contained
One of them is against animal testing the other one is campus bullying. The feature about against animal testing uses the example of The Body Shop to know against animals testing became the main reason why The Body Shop cannot trade in China for the Chinese Market. It seems China cannot ensure the company's products are safe for human use, so has decided not to engage in business with The Body Shop. The feature of campus bullying is talking about a youth drank a bottle of highly toxic pesticide to commit suicide because of campus bullying. The requirement of the group assignment is that each person selects one feature for the magazine design, therefore, the first thing we did was collected the feature of the team and discussed the topic to find the better one of own features. The evacuation of Aleppo was written by Emma Abbas, it tells the story of the most valuable archaeological sites destroyed by the war. Music therapy is written by Jingjing Liu, follows several examples of the treatment of music. Qinhan Zhou wrote a feature about a girl running away from home. Through discussions with our tutor Pete, we finally decided to use music therapy as the lead feature in the magazine. I finally chose campus bullying because the theme of bullying on campus was more appealing to readers than against animal
Originally, I thought it was very difficult to master this course, and fortunately we had a very patient tutor Pete, who helped us to answer a lot of additional questions while granting us skills and knowledge. For example, I saw a favorite pattern in a magazine, but I can ask Pete when I can not learn from my current level of competence. Pete will answer my questions patiently after class. In addition, for Chinese students, the language barrier is the biggest problem. but the classmate like Sonia and other students are very enthusiastic to help us when we in difficult times. The course of Advanced Journalism Skills gave me a lot of creative inspiration. After learned the basic skills of the magazine design, I got a kind of sensitivity of the potential of valuable news in life. As if anytime, anywhere can explore the valuable news and it seems that the cover of this feature layout come into my mind. After the end of the course, I will have to spend more time practicing InDesign. Only practice for many times and make a lot of modification, can create a better work. I believe that I can overcome all of the difficulties in the future. With the help of my tutor, I can deal with the complex information more patient and encouraging. With the help of the course reading, I can write the stories more methodical. With the help of this course, my