10th 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:
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 15th 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.
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.
Friday 17th 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.
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