Page Critique
In the December 2009 issue of the Hatchet featured an articled called “Students bond while decorating”. This was a properly formatted article because the vertical picture was placed above the cutline and allowing the headline is touching the text. The order that should be memorized when a photo is being used is photo, cutline, headline, and then text. To mix up this order in anyway would cause confusion for the reader making them frustrated and no longer interested in what the article had to say. However text shape in the article is a rectangle shape which is overused in general and very safe and boring according to the Harrower. There could be a different technique to make the shape more appealing for the reader while at the same time keeping the text within the pictures frames and remaining symmetry because this is a strong point in this article’s format. In the 2010 January edition of the Hatchet, the Sports Section on page seven has a good use of the L-shape wrap, which refers to the text being in an L-shape. The fact that the photo is used to fill in the otherwise blank space was a good use of covering the empty space. The format is still appropriate because the headline and text are touching.
