Monday 13th December

This is how my newspaper is looking at the moment. All that is left to do is add my image.
To see the images i may use for my Newpaper you can find them on my Flikr photo stream by following this link;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56722537@N04/with/5258784228/

Monday 13th December

Now that i have created my master head, bottom advert (pyramids) and side advert (Jobs Daily), i have also included a small story on the side of my newspaper, i decided to include this as i noticed it was a common trate between newspapers, the small story read;
XFACTOR SCAM- Television ratings for one of England's biggest programs of the 21st century have plummeted after contestant was unfairly dismissed from the competition.Full story page 6.

I have now put in a reference to the football/sport section of my paper buy including the table of the championship (football league) as well this lesson, i chose this as football is a common interest between many of the local people within the area, it seemed as though The News used this in their layout a lot as well, thus helping towards the 'real life' look of my newspaper.
I have chosen a temporary headline until i find a image that i feel is front page worthy just so i have my newspaper prepared so all that is left to do is insert a main picture.
Below are the 3 main areas i have been working on this lesson; sports/football league, small story and temporary headline.

Monday 6th December

In this lesson i looked at creating my small stories for the edge of my news papers front page. I set up my Flickr account so i can upload my photos for the paper next lesson and started creating another advert for the job section of my paper. As i aim to feature a story, job advert and link to sports in my right hand column, i knew that this advert had to be small yet effective. Most of my paper was in black, white and grey and i though using a strong blue tone would draw my readers attention. Here is the small advertisement for my job section of my newspaper;

Monday 29th November

After changing my font, i finished my mast head. I added a logo, webpage, date and edition to create authenticity. I decided that greys, blues and blacks were appropriate for my style of news paper as they are clear and easy to read, they portray an image of a stylish and modern paper and thats what i am hoping to gain. Here is my Finished masterhead;

Monday 22nd November 2010

In today's lesson i have been working  on creating my master head for my paper. Even though i had already chosen my font, in creating my master head i came to realise that my chosen font was not a good idea as it looked too rough for a respectable local news paper. So i then came to realise i needed something less bold and more modern and clean cut. I still am going to go for the same colour, as i feel black is bold and stands out more infront of competitors, as other newspapers are mainly in grey, blue, white or red. Here is a diagram to show the change in fonts from old to new;

Monday 15th November 2010

In this lesson i looked at the advertisements seen on the bottom of local news papers. I decided to create my own using InDesign. I chose to do an advert on the Pyramids swimming centre as it is within the local area and would be a good advertisement to put on my front page with half term approaching. Here is my advertisment;

I took the Pyramids logo from their web page and created an advert around its style using the greens and blues featured in their logo, to make it look like a real advertisement. In other local papers i have looked at, all of the front page adverts seem to be big and bold, using large shapes and bold colour, so i tried to imitate  this in my advertisement. Here is another advertisment that i used as research into design and layout;

8th November

In today's lesson knowing that i had my font and title figure out i focused on the layout of my news paper, thinking about what and where i am going to position everything that i have to include. I used The News as my inspiration, and looked at past and present copies to see what layout i felt best suited my newspaper. I then produced a flat plan of how i hope the layout of my newspaper will look. To the right is a copy of my flat plan based upon the generic paper layout.

1st November 2010

In this lesson i played around with fonts, i looked at fonts that would seem masculine and femanine. Masculine text i feel would represent the news as a whole where as femanine text, which is more modern and flowy i felt would represent more local happenings ans the 'nice stories'. My aim was to get a font inbetween so that my paper could reach all ages and genres. I finally settled on a font ''Vtks good luck for you''  and started playing around with colour, as you will find that news papers like the news and the sun have main colours throughout their papers, being red and blue. I thought about different colours and what they represent, green was a prominant idea of mine as i thought this would work well with the current ecological crises which is in the worlds media at present, but after some thought i felt that an eco news would not be as popular as a normal basic newspaper with bold colours and fonts. So for now settled on a bold black and will use other colours throught the paper to highlight key areas. The picture to the right is a screen shot of the font work i did, it can be enlarged to become clearer if you click on it.

18th October 2010

In this lesson I looked at different papers for ideas and themes for my own design and stories. I looked at the layout of local news papers and their websites so i could create ideas of my own. I took possible front cover and inside photos over the weekend, and came up with a name for my paper.. ''Daily Press''. I spoke with my lecturer about the style of my paper and target audience and have decided from this that I want to do a normal traditional local paper, modern and basic. Over the half term I aim to take more photos to generate a good front cover and inside page.

What is the inverted Triangle?

The inverted pyramid is a metaphor used by journalists and other writers to illustrate the placing of the most important information first within a text. It is a common method for writing news stories and is widely taught to journalism students. The "inverted" or upside-down "pyramid" can be thought of as a simple triangle with one side drawn horizontally at the top and the body pointing down. The widest part at the top represents the most substantial, interesting, and important information the writer means to convey, illustrating that this kind of material should head the article, while the tapering lower portion illustrates that other material should follow in order of diminishing importance. It is sometimes called a "summary news lead" style.

What is Ethos?

Ethos is related to the English word ethics and refers to the trustworthiness of the speaker/writer.  Ethos is an effective persuasive strategy because when we believe that the speaker does not intend to do us harm, we are more willing to listen to what s/he has to say.  For example, when a trusted doctor gives you advice, you may not understand all of the medical reasoning behind the advice, but you nonetheless follow the directions because you believe that the doctor knows what s/he is talking about. Ethos is when these key attributes are used;

Language appropriate to audience and subject

Restrained, sincere, fair minded presentation

Appropriate level of vocabulary

Correct grammar.

So in news papers an example of ethos would be when the journalist writes a story in  a paper and expects you the public, to believe what ever is said and take it as news because it is human instingt to have trust in news papers as they are seen as a factual source of information in all studied and lifestyles.

What is Human Interest?

A human interest story is a feature story that discusses a person or persons in an interactive and/or emotional way. It presents people and their problems, concerns, or achievements in a way that brings about interest or sympathy in the reader or viewer.

Background Information on 'The News', where and who?

The Portsmouth evening news is a local news paper, it has a circulation of 48,191, the areas of its circulation are shown in the map featured. The News' main target audience is adults, shown by a market research survey taken out in January 2009. The profile of The News readers is similar to that of the local population through this The News appeals to all groups and types of people, it has in the last few years seen a significant rise in readers age 15-24. The News sells 2 editions each day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, as the local news changes all the time, something that is front page in the morning can change by the afternoon, like the 911 attacks for example. The news targets mainly people in the social grade band C and below, due to being informal and containing stories on the local area and major world events, compared to larger London newspapers which are very formal and talk about stock markets and business events as well as the important headliners. Another difference between the news and other papers in different grades, is the language used, large London news papers like the telegraph and guardian are open to using long complicated words, and aim their reading level high where as the news aim their reading level at 12/13 year olds so it is easy and enjoyable for everyone to read.

What is a local newspaper?

A local newspaper is, a publication containing local news, information, advertising, and events. Newspapers often feature articles on political events, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports, a local news paper features main headlines from all across the country as well as local happenings.

What is newsworthiness? News values? and Bias?

Newsworthiness is something that is interesting enough to be reported as news, a story in which would be of high interest to your reader and is apt to current world events.

A story that is newsworthy has a common trend to other news stories these are known as news values, media researchers Galtung and Ruge analysed news stories from across the world and saw what factors the stories had in common, they then came up with a list of values, an example of a few news values are as follows; Negativity, Closeness to home, Recency, Currency, Continuity, Uniqueness, Simplicity, Personality, Predictability, Exclusivity and Size. These values are a form of ‘scoring system', a story which involves high levels of values or many values in one story, would be a TV news bulletin or make the front page of the newspapers, this would be a strong story in the media world, in contrast with a smaller less successful story which contains week connections to news values.

Each of these news stories is reported from a certain angle, this may be through one of the media values listed or the writers own personal views, this form of writing is known as being bias, the way someone can push their views on to you subtlety through how they describe something or the photos and headlines they choose. This form of writing can then alter your perspective and opinion over certain topics.