Author: Vicki Emily Evans

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Indy PR1 and online journalism project

This is a piece of work that I mad in my first term of my masters course and this is all about the independent shops and restaurants in Preston. Me and my course colleague Sam made this project together.

We worked on elements together as in the Twitter and the blog but there are parts which we separated out to deal with separately. So I did the Instagram, Pinterest and the Vine page as well as the pieces on the blog itself.

This was a very important project to do as it made me learn how to manage different social media for a long period of time. The brand and the tone of the pages and social media needed to be consistent though out so there was a lot of collaboration between me and Sam to what we were working on.

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The Instagram page worked really well as it had a mix of both shops and more artsy pieces that worked on the medium. Hashtags were so important when doing this page and keeping the local people engaged with the content.

Pintrest was more difficult because this was more about curating the work of someone else rather than uploading the photos myself. This would have worked better with a different subject but it had some engagement from the other pinners.

This was my first experience with using Vine and I found it very easy to get to grips with as the format is very simplistic. It worked very well on its own but when I curated the pieces together to make the piece about the ‘Top 5 independent coffee shops’ which used the Vines that post took off and was shared a lot.

The Twitter was used mainly to much out content but also keep up to date with the things that were happening around the city by re-tweeting different new articles and local opinion. This was also a way to showcase some of the infographics that I created such as this Thinglink or this infographic.

Some tweets were put up in advance to keep in with set events like “Shop Small Saturday” which was around the time of the project. Using TweetDeck meant that we could control when tweets went out to keep content moving.

Finally there was the blog posts. Each week I did a Instagram round up to highlight the photos of the week. It was also a good way to bulk out the blog as there was only two people but this is the round up of these posts and those can all be read on the blog.

Links:

Blog: https://indypr1.wordpress.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/indy_pr1

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indy_pr1/

Vine: https://vine.co/u/1278497945502797824

Pintrest: https://uk.pinterest.com/indypr1/

There was also a Snapchat however this was one of the sections that Sam made himself.

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Creative Freelancers

This was the first group magazine that I did on my masters course. This is the one where I was editor and in charge of the group of people and was responsible for making sure that each person was on the right track for the magazine.

This one was based around freelancers who are in the creative industry. We saw that the creative industry as a whole according to the reports from the government said that the industry was on an increase. Combined that with the amount of freelancers the creative industry employs and how freelancing has no real community and is very isolated so we made this magazine.

The main articles which I wrote for the print magazine was:

Carving a niche in the wedding industry – how to become part of a £10 billion industry as a freelancer

The best business cards – a breakdown of the right business cards for you on the market

How to make it on Google – SEO and the basics of being found on the internet.

There was also an online element as well which you can see below and I was also responsible for writing the media pack which is in a PDF below with the full magazine.

When reading the magazine my articles have bylines but I also designed several pages and worked on design in general as well as writing the three articles and managing the website. @adresses to the other members who worked on are in the contents page of the magazine.

 

PDF of magazine: Creative Freelancers

PDF of media pack: Media Pack

 

Website: http://ukjournalism.co.uk/magazines/2016c/

 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cfmag_

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creativefreelancermagazine/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBcenqrsncrLtFl8MzkUQvQ

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Millennial Man Magazine

This is Millennial Man Magazine which is a magazine that I made through a group project. I was the digital editor and the links to this are down below to all the social media.

I am very proud of this magazine and all the work that went in to it. The first magazine had a few issues but it is proof that the longer that you work with a group of people the more that you get to know their working style and can make something great together.

The idea for the magazine was about having a magazine that spoke to millennials because they have either been ignored by the magazine industry or seen as people who only want to see nudity and read rude and sexist content, like the lads mags of the 90s and early 00s.

So the aim was simple a men’s magazine that was inclusive and intelligent and I honestly do feel that we as a group achieved that.

For me the main part of the online editor role that I took on was about organisation and to keep the website have content up on it at all times to keep it fresh and relevant.

The two main articles I worked on for the print magazine were:

Men have boobs too: a look in to male breast cancer and how it is a heath risk that men should be aware of.

Video game tourism Assassin’s Creed: travel to the places of the AC franchise this summer.

When reading the magazine my articles have bylines but I also designed several pages and worked on design in general as well as writing the two articles and managing the website. @adresses to the other members who worked on are in the contents page of the magazine.

 

Magazine PDF: MILLENNIAL MAN

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Travel Layout Designs

These are a few examples of travel layouts for a magazine or newspaper.

All images or graphics I made or took myself. I used InDesign to create the pages and Photoshop to edit any photos and create the graphics.

This design is based off the Sunday Times ‘Great British Breaks’ articles. This one also has the full copy in the layout. The graphic at the bottom I designed using photoshop and was in the style of The Sunday Times maps.

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These next few are designed and use filler text for the story.

The first is form Albufeira, Portugal. The key was to have the beautiful relaxing beach as the focal point and give an overview of the feel of the town using the side bar of different images.

Albufiria Layout

Derwentwater piece focus is the panorama shot at the bottom. Using such a large image can mean that the text is lost through the picture so using two columns and making the text very blocky mean that the text is not lost in the image.

Derwent Water

This DPS of Venice I feel would be a typical weekend travel piece with the entire right hand page being full of photos to give a good fell for the place and the left hand page being full with text.

Venise Layout

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The quick update post

So I haven’t updated this blog in ages and I though it would be good to keep you informed on what I am currently up to.

So to start of with I am about half way though my masters degree in Magazine Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire. I am studying for my NTCJ exams including shorthand, very please to say I am up to 70 words per minute and only been learning since October.

I have already done modules on specialist writing, creating content, digital journalism, law and public affairs. I am currently working in a group module producing two magazines: a business and a consumer.

With that three day, full time course, I am also working at a jewellers in Lancaster whist studying for my masters. It makes me very busy but it is very rewarding.

My other blogs are going steady at the moment with me updating as normal. However my YouTube channel has exploded with views over the past month and a half. It has gone from 750 subscribers to 2,300 in less than 50 days!

With this the focus of my portfolio online will be on that channel and I have been putting a lot of time and energy in to making that the best representation of my work as possible.

So in between a full time course, a part time job and my online adventures I am keeping myself very busy with also the look to also be applying for jobs in the magazine or publishing world. Keeping busy keeps me happy!

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Contact

Email: vicki.emily.evans@gmail.com

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Reflection Magazine

Reflection Magazine  was my final project of the third year. This was to construct a magazine, from articles to photographs to the layout and design.

My vision for the magazine was for a young target audience that wanted real women’s stories and for the fashion to be affordable and for them.

My aim was to go over a cross section of women from all different parts of the UK including minorities and to be able to tell their story. My other aim for the magazine was for the fashion, makeup and adverts to exclusively feature real women.

The magazine was produced from scrtatch using Adobe InDesgin, Photos and adverts were edited or created in Adobe Photoshop. All photos are credited to the source also the mock adverts I produced as well.

The magazine is 24 pages long and also is A5 in size if printed out. Here is the PDF: Magazine

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Online Newspaper

For the first half of my final year the journalism students were split in to two groups of 9 and produced an online local newspaper together.

The group had to each produce 12 articles in total. Six were for news for a dummy edition to get feed back from our tutors about. The second group of six were for a real week of news between the 10th and 17th December 2014.

The group had to coordinate what articles they were doing so the same article wasn’t written about. Each person also had the responsibility to produce a range of content from news articles, multimedia and photojournalism pieces, entertainment news and reviews.

Working with the other students was challenging but also helpful as it was good to communicate and talk about articles with other students.

As the newspaper was just online other elements such as social media tasks were involved also changing the writing style to suit online journalism more.

My archive of posts can be found here: https://www.chesterrecord.wordpress.com/author/vickiemilyevans/

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Features Spread

So this is the two page spread I made for my Feature Writing Class in my second year of University.

The style of the double page is supposed to look like a real local newspaper. I decided on the Chester Chronicle as this was a newspaper that is local and features a range of topics.

The two sides to the spread had to be thematically the same so I chose two charities that are working in and around Chester; the first is the food bank that is part of the Tinsel Trust and the second is charity that takes poor children from Belarus and Ukraine to England for a month each year.

The content of the articles cannot be shown as I do not have permission from the people I interviewed however can be available on request.

PDF and photos are available. The spread was produced from scratch using InDesign. Photos were edited in Adobe Photoshop.

Feature articles

Article for an assessment in the style of the Chester Chronicle. Filler text has been added to protect my sources; text available on demand. Article for an assessment in the style of the Chester Chronicle. Filler text has been added to protect my sources; text available on demand.