Artist statement
When making this project I had many concerns about how I was going to make it. One of the main concerns I had was finding out if I should make an entire newspaper based on my topic or if I should just make an entire page on the topic I had. Another concern I had for this project was the genre of it. I had difficulty making this project into a different genre while keeping the same topic. The main purpose I had for choosing the newspaper was that I wanted to make it seem like I was a part of the staff or a student working for the school news department, and I was showing students experiences with stress in college and how many other students also have similar reasons for stress when in a new environment. While making the newspaper I wanted to show 2 different opinions of stress. One was a student that also deals with stress but doesn’t let it affect his life, the other was a staff member that just wanted to voice out how stress affected his life and blames all his problems on stress. The main problem I had with making 2 opposite POVs was the audience I want the paper to attract. With 2 different POVs and experiences, it causes the paper to have 2 parts. A professional one that attracted students and even had student opinions in the paper and an unprofessional one that attracted teachers or adults that also deal with stress. Now the main problem with the second POV was that this was a City Tech newspaper and not a Newspaper in the south where the audience is mainly republican and white. Even though the second point of view didn’t make the most sense I still wanted to keep it so the newspaper could have conflicting views. Another Huge problem I had with the project was that halfway into the project I wanted to change my genre and make a different topic like a cartoon where the superhero fights an alien that shoots stress bubbles to start the people attacking each other to make room for their invasion. Eventually, I decided that since I already had my topic almost done and I barely had enough time to do that finishing the newspaper would just be best. Now that my project is done, I think I did a good job. Although I would’ve liked it to be better and more thought out, I still believe it was a good newspaper.
the link to my project since i forgot to put it on blackboard
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g74kQ-VEsVybMNK8mAMh_NeSUT_zCIHivAZyNTghdSc/edit?usp=sharing
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