Research

For the past couple of weeks the team has been doing research for the front page news, creating the newspaper title and also taking photographs for the adverts and main story. We have decided to write a story about an elderly woman who gets attacked by a youth in her own home. The idea is to ensure that the story is shocking and people will buy it as they might have heard the story second hand and want to know more about it from the newspaper.
We have decided to do an advert about Domino's Pizza in Wolverton, advertising the Two for Tuesday deals. As of yet, we are not entirely sure what other adverts we are going to put on the paper, as we noticed that in the MK Citizen that they use quite a few adverts on the front page, alongside the main story. As it's coming up to Bonfire Night, we may do something in relation to that, about firework safety as it shows that our product keeps up-to-date with important social events.

Sarah Belmont-Colwell

Jess Staples-Hull

Newspaper Questionnaire

These are our results from the questionnaire we asked seven people. This was done as market research.

From the findings we can see that there was a slight difference between the sexes: more males tend to buy broadsheets such as the Independent, Times and the Guardian; females reading more tabloids such as the Daily Mail and Local Newspapers, although most participants tended to buy more than one newspaper. However, there was little difference between what they looked at, looking mostly at current affairs and celebrity gossip. On the other hand, the older particpants liked to read about politics, food and travel.

When asked about whether they visited newspaper websites, very few answered yes - once again, it was the older participants that did.

Sarah Belmont-Colwell and Jess Staples-Hull



Local Newspaper Content

By Charlie Barkus

The Sun Deconstruction



Jess Staples-Hull

Newspaper Page Two

This is an example of the second page in a newspaper. The second page usually won't show the main story but will have another important story printed on it. The page has a large photogrpah that is related to the story. Local newspapers will usually keep the whole newspaper with colour, but becasue this is a copy from a national newspaper it is in black and white. The page has a lot of information on it and the whole story is on this page.

By Charlie Barkus  

Anchorage of Photos Used

Sarah Belmont-Colwell

Letter to the Citizen

This is a letter we sent to the MK Citizen in hopes of getting a historical background on the newspaper, as we couldn't find any information on the website.

 

Dear Sir or Madam,

 

I'm currently studying media at Kingsbrook school, Deanshanger and we are looking at local newspapers as part of our coursework. As part of out research we need to look at the history of a local newspaper. As I cannot find the information I need on your website, I was hoping you could give me a brief summary of the Citizen's history.

 

Any information you can give me would be a great help.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Jess Staples Hull

Sixth Former, Year 13

Kingsbrook Business and Enterprise School

 

Jess Staples Hull

Sarah Belmont-Colwell