REFLECTION

Looking back on the process of this assignment I cringe a little bit. It’s not that I didn’t have enough time for the assignment, because I did. But I also changed my topic. When I do articles and stuff like that I don’t always keep in mind how will I be able to report the story considering I am not at a newspaper or magazine and have minimal resources. Thinking this way made this project harder to accomplish. I decided to change my trend from fashion to items and products that were trendy around holidays. That was easier to report. I could actually walk up to people and just ask them a few questions. Sure I got more people who didn’t want to be on the record or gave one word answers that I could use. But what amazed me was how some of my sources gave me too much information and still somehow managed not to answer the original question…weird.

The other thing that really got to me with this assignment was the online element. I understand what it is for, but I think a photo is a photo, a video is a video. I dropped my phone in water last week Wednesday and was unable to use my camera phone which I rely on. I haven’t purchased a digital camera because I tend to lose things of value. I tried to go and get some pictures but my camera wouldn’t work and the photos I had can’t be accessed because the phone will only turn on. So as I’m reflecting I highly regret thinking it was okay to wash my hands and be on the phone at the same time.

And like I said before I would’ve preferred to have the idea originally to save myself some anguish and time. It was hard to get sources and everything done on top of my other work since I changed my topic. Everyone is on their rough drafts and I am scrambling trying to get my sources together. Speaking of sources…