Eagle Eye Review

1) Effectiveness of the writing:
From the various articles that I read the writing seems like it was effective for the high school audience intended, it was generally clear and understandable, with an occasional challenging word thrown in (this fits well assuming that the students reading would likely be more academically dedicated). I noticed a few misspellings, on the "MAN ON THE STREET" presentation, although not an official article, I did notice a misspelling that could have been easily corrected, the person questioned said "It was boring. It didn't grasp my attentnion at all." I also found a few issues with another article, "Rough pasts lead students to embrace the holiday season", The Story began focusing on student Buck Schroeter, with a prompt that left little else to expect, but transferred half way to another student, Tenzin Dekyong, I think it could have been worked into the prompt. Anything negative I have heard from family and friends has to do with misspelling and grammar issues.

2) Quality of the photographs:
I think that the photographs, while well placed were blurry in some area's. The Chick-fil-A advertisement, and this may have been because of the company, was blurry. In "Urban Craze", a portion focused on fashion, something that should have had a high resolution picture with it, both photo's were blurry, leaving the reader to guess details of what the subjects were wearing. I think drop-shadow, used on page 6 and 7, is effective for cropped photo's, but should not be overused. Overall, I think the photos were good considering the issues with color the newspaper inherentally has.

3) The overall impact of the layout and design:
There were few areas that were not broken by some sort of change in color or info-graphic; there is one on page 4 that does not follow the breaking up strategy to keep readers interested. I think a picture would have been placed there to benefit the flow of the information. Something I do like in the paper, as long as the color is subtle, is the background color applied to some of the articles. This may have been slightly misused with the bright orange beneath the "Chuy's helps donate toys for children" article, but I thinks it's still something nice to include. The paper also conformed to the pica border rule and did not have a set page layout for each paper, keeping each page unique.

4) The strength of the non-photo graphics and info-graphics:
I noticed one non-photo infographic, page 3 "Student finds finals to be stressful, unnecessary, and over-emphasized", that summed up the information from a survey very well, but was pixelated. I think that the drawings throughout the paper fit the high school feel, this may have been a weaker subjects in the paper (only because photos were used more often), but it seems like there was at least one non-photo graphic per page to keep things interesting for the reader.

5) The continuity of the theme/design elements visible throughout the entire work:
The paper did into seem to have a general color theme, I think if the paper subtly followed the "MAN ON THE STREET" box, or some similar theme, the paper would have seemed more complete and whole. The front page did do a nice job of combining the intro-photo's black wit the "Invisible Children strive to make themselves heard" background color. Individual pages do seem to a color theme, except for page 5 and 11. If I hear anything about the paper from friends and family, good or bad, it does not include design elements: no news is probably good news.