Week 3

Wednesday 29^th September 2010

I had a few ideas today and was thinking how my local newspaper is going to challenge the way a real local newspaper is.  To answer my own question, I think that with the right in-design skills it will look like a real local newspaper also if I do enough research and that includes my questionnaire for what people expect in a local newspaper, I think it should challenge a real one. I just have to wait for the final results.  I have also changed my target audience for my newspaper as before I was aiming it at 21-40 I have now changed it to 21-60 as I have found out that older people tend to read local newspaper more as it affecting the local community most of them have spent they lives in.

Week 2

Wednesday 22^nd September 2010

I have just started my presentation I am going to compare two newspaper. South London press and The Daily Shopper, as there are targeted at two different audiences. When I start analysing them I will put it in this blog. My teacher gave me some more ideas and said I should make another rough draft to show my thought process throughout out the whole project. It is going to be very hard as I found out I have to make a poster advertising my newspaper and pick either radio advertisement or two pages from a website!  I have decided to pick two paged from a website as I think I will be able to do it and it seems enjoyable.  At this stage I am still not completely sure which one I will pick but I need to make a decision.

Week 1

10^th September 2010

Hello blog! I am back again to share my experiences whilst making a media project. Last year I made a music magazine called Howdy yo! This year I am going to work hard and not leave things too late. My in-design and Photoshop skills have improved slightly but I still need to learn more. This time around I am making a local newspaper. I decided to make a local newspaper because the skills I learnt whilst doing the foundation portfolio should transfer into making the newspaper therefore helping me. Throughout this blog I will be sharing ideas, my feelings and also how I end up with the final project. Wish me luck! I made a quick newspaper front cover for my preliminary task. Here it is:

This was my Preliminary newspaper front cover. This does not look like a newspaper at all and it does not look professional. This draft has a mast head and it has some elements of a newspaper but it looks more like a greeting card. I did not research any newspaper before I made this so this is why it does not look like a newspaper. In my final newspaper draft I will add more elements. There will be more articles on the front cover. I will also add advertisements as that is how a local newspaper will be able to run.

Wednesday 15^th September 2010

Today I learnt that the name of a newspaper is not called a mast head like what it is called in a magazine it is actually called a nameplate so I need to remember to call it a name plate not a masthead! I have a few names for my local newspaper but I am going to do a questionnaire and ask people what name they think is more eye-catching.  I also learnt that most of my newspaper is going to be constructed in in-design which I am slightly worried about as I am not that confident using in-design. I have to make the first two pages of a newspaper so I have to research local newspapers to see what they are like. I have to make either a poster advertising my newspaper, radio advertisement or two pages from a website so that is also things I need to think about.

Friday 17^th September 2010

I have learnt more newspaper terminology such as by-line which is usually the name of the reporter and jump line which is used to tell the reader the page and column number where they can find the rest of the story. This has helped me for when I have to make my own local newspaper. I have drawn a rough draft of what I think a newspaper should look like:

The first week has been quite intresting as I have learnt new termnology that I will be using throughout the project. So far I have used  photoshop which was very useful for my preliminary task. I am not that good at photoshop so that might have been the reason why my preliminary task does not look like a newspaper.