Response: Deadlines

In the world of journalism you have to be flexible. This is an area where I am trying to be better, however, I like schedules and sticking to them. However, sometimes that doesn't work out. This week was one of those sometimes.

Unfortunately a feature story has fallen

through, and it was the

one I was assigned to design. My initial designs were due today, despite not having any photos and a really rough draft of the story. So, I was dealt the difficult task of creating a layout with very little information and a brief description of possible pictures. In the past, I have imagined layouts in my mind before having a story or pictures. In those cases, I was writing the story and shooting the picture, so I knew - more or less - what I was going to come up with in the end.

Using the minimal information I was given, I set out to design with my imagination and some Google images.

This is what I came up with:

Not too shabby. I was basically trying to arrange the images to where I could break up the text nicely and use the images as supplement (versus having the images tell the story). I really just wanted this initial design to be clean and organized. Nothing too showy.

Since I have no idea what photos have been/will be taken for this feature since it is no longer running, this could have worked.