Adverts

I have looked at three different types of adverts that appear on the front pages of newspapers. i have noticed two different types of adverts, some with promote the newspaper, and others which promote seperate companies.

By Charlie Barkus

webiste research

By Charlie Barkus

Newspaper Logo's

 I have deconstructed these newspaper logos for research. By doing this we can get a rough idea what  newspaper logos look like and get inspiration for are own insignia. The design we were most  influenced  by was the Independent logo, this is because it is classical and timeless. We can then incorporate this in to our final logo, for example, using similar font and style.

Jess Staples Hull

Local Newspaper Deconstruction

By Sarah Belmont-Colwell

Newspaper Poster Deconstruction

By Charlie Barkus

Research for Newspaper Adverts

By Charlie Barkus

Research for Front Cover

These are a few deconstructions of National newspapers that I believed would be useful as background research. By looking at these, we are able to make a choice as to what layout would be more appropriate for our front cover, out of the few design layouts that Charlie devised earlier.

It also helps us all see what sort of stories and articles that people like to read about. From this we can now come up with ideas as to what to put on our front covers. We will make a questionnaire up as to what people like to read about and how often they buy newspapers. This will allow us to develop ideas and improve our ideas.

Sarah Belmont-Colwell

The Start of Process Continued

        

This is another construction idea that Charlie had for our front cover. By laying it out this way, the large 'Main Story Photograph' will catch people's eyes as they go to buy a newspaper, therefore people will want to find out  more about that story and buy the paper.

In each of the previous layout designs posted the Newspaper title has always been at the top of the page, much like both local and national newspapers; this will give  our paper a more professional look and shows people that we are serious in our work.

Sarah Belmont-Colwell and Charlie Barkus

Newspaper poster ideas

I have decided to start looking at different styles of posters. I have noticed that the most eye-catching posters are simple, with big fonts and use bright colours. I decided to create a forty's style poster because I think that it matches that of a newspaper. This poster is an initial idea that I have had. To improve upon the poster idea, we need to create a questionnaire, so we can find out what is the preferred style of the reader and we can see what people want to see in adverts. It is possible that people won't react to this style of poster, therefore we need to see what people want to see. 

I will also be using my own photographs for the poster, and will look at different photographs used in past advertisements.

Charlie Barkus and Sarah Belmont-Colwell

The Start of Progress

These are the two of the initial plans for the front cover of our newspaper. I decided to go for a basic plan so that the newspaper has an open apearance that invites the audience to read it. I have made sure that both front covers include all the necessary details needed for a newspaper cover. Although these are both very simple layout ideas i will develpo upon them to create the final newspaper model.

I will eventually produce two more layout ideas, which we will later decide on which one to use. From that we can design the front cover and choose which stories to use.

Charlie Barkus

The Start of a New Year

We're starting Year 13 A2 Media and have decided to document our progression through this years coursework on a blog.

The people in our group:
Sarah Belmont-Colwell
Jess Staples-Hull
Charlie Barkus

Our task is to create the first two pages of a local newspaper with a poster to advertise the paper and create two hyperlinked pages from the paper's website.

Our group has many skills that will help with the development of our task. For example, Jess is good at the designing aspects of magazines and newspapers that will attract a wide audience; Charlie is good at designing layouts and image manipulation, this will come in handy when designing the poster for the newspaper; I am good at the analytical aspects and planning what needs to be done through the progression of our course.

Sarah Belmont-Colwell