Progress for 10th March - Choosing a name for the newspaper

Today we undertook a number of measures which all have contributed well towards our progress. Firstly, we held another production meeting, with Myself, Kirk, Alex, Mike and Pete. We allocated roles for everybody, mostly to get on with their articles and to find or highlight relevant information from various articles about the article they are writing, such as statistics or things that students can quote in the exam which show definite relevance.

Matt helped to highlight a few articles for our article together while I was in the production meeting. Our article is about TV catch up and media in the online age, which we hope will really help A2 students.

First of all, we asked the class to brainstorm ideas for the name of the newspaper on post it notes. The rest of the quality control team and myself then gathered these together and worked through them into what we thought was sensible, fun, interesting and unique. Below you can see the various post it notes we had to choose from.

We finally decided on two possible names, my two possible suggestions were MediaMyLife and The Media Box. Nonetheless, we decided that we liked the repetition of two M's in the name of the newspaper, and therefore found it hard to decide between our final two names, which were MediaMe and MediaMuse. I liked both of these suggestions but personally thought MediaMe had a better ring to it.

Therefore, we asked the class to vote out of the two final examples, and we got the majority of votes on MediaMe, which people felt was a bit simpler.

Loz and Tim then decided to work on some logos, which we will start to develop over the nest few days. Tim's logo was very simple and I liked it a lot, it really outlined the title and I think it would work well with the newspaper. Nonetheless, we will look at some more logo examples and ideas and decide which one we like best as a class.

Tim's logo idea is the small logo in the corner of the picture. Loz's logo ideas are shown below.

Another thing discussed today with Pete is to make a flyer advertising the newspaper. Next Friday the 19th, Alex our liason person is to go to a conference in London with Jenny Grahame, our client. He is going to hand out these flyers to potential advertisers so it is essential we get the flyers done asap, and they advertise the newspaper well. This picture of the sheet below shows Pete's notes to us about what needs to get done and what actions we should take.

Overall, in the production meeting we had today I thought we were really moving on in terms of progress, and we decided some definite decisions which will hopefully mean we are moving forward effectively. I am looking forward to collating all the rough draft articles together Friday and working on another Flatplan, as well as working on my article with Matt tomorrow and also helping others. Overall I think we are working well and should start to get a good idea of what else we need to do after collating all the rough articles on Friday.