journal 8

I liked how everyone approached their organization differently. Some, like us, had connections already that they leaned on, while others originally pursued different organizations only to be turned down and have to fall back on another. Even the way teams created their artifacts, the composing process was different for each. Some divided it up and others, like the church one, actually got together with their organization and brainstormed what the representatives wanted and what worked best.

I think everyone thought about the genre they were working in, whether it be animals that directed their artifacts into bright and fun avenues, or more serious organizations that required them to create more serious and somber texts. Everyone worked within a genre that best suited their organization and the genre they were working in. Paying attention to audience and genre were things that I think every group did well. They tailored their texts to suit the audience and the organization's needs and desires, and I really enjoyed seeing all the different takes people took. Especially with the animal rescue places, since several groups did basically different variations of the same organization, it was cool to see the direction each of them took in creating their texts and speaking to their audience. I'm curious to see which one of those did the best, honestly.

I found a lot of things that other groups did that I would have liked to employ in my group. For one, all of the groups that created shirts, I thought that was just brilliant. Thinking out of the box like that was not something that my team really carved out time to get together and do. We were all so busy and we didn't even design our texts together, so I would have liked to do that if we could do it again. Definitely paying closer attention to circulation, because some groups had specific events that they created texts for that had been done with for weeks, and their texts had a chance to be circulated much longer than ours.

Overall I learned a lot from this project, and I think everyone did very well.