Independent Task 1

LIA: In public relations, they have what are called editorial calendars. These are the calendars that have the deadlines of magazines. They use these calendars to make sure they can get their clients into the magazines they want before the deadline is over. They print out the calendars from every magazine in every genre, men's, women's, teens, fashion, tech, travel, etc. They compile all of the printed calendars into a binder. For my independent task, I helped compile the binder, and then I took all of the deadlines until the end of the year and put them into a visual representation. I made weekly charts, and put the deadlines on post-it notes and stuck them on the days of the deadlines. These will be put up on the wall of their office, so they can have a visual representation of the deadlines they need to meet.

I had to make a chart for every week, from this month until the end of the year. Every poster represents a week, and with 4 weeks in a month, it was a total of 48 posters. Along with helping to compile the binder, it was a total of 30 and a half hours. By doing this, it helped to give me an idea of some of the things Public Relationists have to do in their work, even if it's as simple as organizing something visual for the office. Being organized and coming up with creative ways to get organized is extremely important in PR.

One of my answers for my EQ is to be organized and creative, and this project embodied both of those skills. I came up with the structure of the posters on my own, and put them together in any way I wanted. I did it this way because it was a very easy way to see the deadlines and the post-its are easy to take off when that deadline has been filled.