The dust settles...assignments are OVER!

Thank the lord, I'm finally free...free from the burden of assignments deadlines. Well i actually i was free about a week ago but today was my last exam . It was a multiple choice based exam so it wasn't that bad - about media law and politics. Quite a combination eh? Well as a journalist I'm supposed to know my boundaries, as in what i can and cannot report. So it this whole media law module was very insightful.

As for my other assignments, well lets have the grades do the talking shall we? The magazine assignment and the documentary assignment were both group work and i think we managed to pull it off quite well, with MY persistence of course. I don't want to blabber on to much about this though just in case i jinx myself and my grades end up worse. I don't really believe in the jinx stuff of course but just in case...

Last week, the University of Bedfordshire had its student union media awards. And guess what? yup you've guessed it, i won an award! YAAAAAAY! I know you may be thinking: "What a...weirdo", but this actually meant quite a bit to me. It was held in the student union bar, so at first i was a bit reluctant to go but i knew i may have been up for an award so i went anyway. Obviously for me it was weird since, i've never really been in a 'bar', especially where people are gulping down alcohol. Luckily my journalism lecturer was there and she kept me company for most of the part. While i drank my J20 orange drink, (which i was cautious of for any spiking) and my lecturer was drinking a glass of champagne, we talked about my future and what i could do as a special project for my third year.

And then came the awards part. I was quite anxious at first since so many people were getting awards yet i wasn't getting anything. Then right near the end i heard my name: "2009 News Writer of the Year...Imran Choudhury!" My patience had paid off. I went onto the podium, hoping i wouldn't do a disastrous trip up the steps and grabbed my award. Fantastic. My grin was bigger than any clown I've seen.

Print Production Assignments

I just recently handed in my print production assignment, which was to design and edit a front page, a feature page, and a book cover. I've saved them as JPEGs and placed them below...

Above is my front page. It was based on the Times newspaper, with a little bit of my own spice. I done the logo on photoshop with the rest mainly done using indesign.

This is my feature page. I done the logo and background on photoshop. I quite liked the background, because it suits the pieces well. You may have probably noticed that this feature article is the same one published down below. I used this article and incorporated into my feature page design. I obviously had to cut some of the words out, because it was difficult to fit it in.

This is my book cover and one of my favourites. It was basically a redesign of the book "The Sealed Nectar", which is known as one of the best biographies of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh). I done the 'fancy' writing and most the image design on photoshop (yes....what would i do with out it) and the basic guidelines and that 'hypnotic' purple colour on indesign. The person on the front is not the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), i used him mainly because of the Arab/Islamic garments he's wearing but also because is actually a descendant of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh). There are some Muslims who are always sceptical of such people, but i guess only Allah knows best.