Planning- Website

We started off our basic ideas for our website by hand drawing a few layouts, which linked back to our research. We started to include key features that were included in the websites we researched, such as a Mass heading. Out of the layout we did we chosen to go with the middle one, was it had a basic style to it, which most local newspaper website does. Also we link the fact that all the news and stories were down the left hand side and leaving the small column of the right hand side for advertisement for the newspaper and local business within the area.

Planning- Poster

After research two different types of newspaper poster, we decide to go with the second sets of poster. Within our posters draft we have tried to keep the the poster linking to the area it is based at e.g the sea front, Light house and fish and chips. We have also included an few poster that don't link with the area it based it but to show how things have changed throughout newspaper company's and style within them. (Layouts of poster below.)

Layout for Poster:

After coming up with an realisable amount of poster draft and quotes/slogans. We picked which two we liked the best and built on them, adding more details and the text box of where it will be placed. Giving us more of an understand of what the poster will look like. (Final two draft below)

Final to drafts:

Final Draft

Within the final draft we used images off google to get the basic idea of what it poster would look like and how the background and text would fit together. In our poster we will take our own photography trying to get them similar to the old is in the draft belong and make our own newspaper boat.

I like how it catchy but still links with the local area of the newspaper itself, by including an newspaper boat get across the meaning behind the poster, as it links to advertising the new local newspaper but also set the area it will be held in. The text is also catchy as links very well with the photography and style within it, but also shows that newspaper haven't also got peaceful and nice news within it, but it also includes the terrible news within the area.



 With our poster draft we decided to change the front on the poster to make it more eye catch and appeal to a big range of audience. Also we have tried to have the newspaper title stand out more by having it in an different colour to the rest of the writing but linking with the colours in the background. We also kept the same font and colour of the title that we had on our newspaper itself, to show the link between them both.



Planning- Newspaper

We started our planning by forcing on the main task, which was to create a front  cover and a inside page for the page. We firstly started off by creating an page full of ideas to give us a rough idea of what they should included. By creating an page full of bullets points and note help to link our findings and research to our own newspaper and show us an clear link to making our work realistic.

Planning for the Newspaper itself

Layout for Front cover

Once we got an basic understanding of what we would included in our newspaper, we started to link of layouts. We created four hand drawn design for first ideas for the cover of the newspaper, which was quick and easy to produce but also to get an first idea if what the cover would look like. We finally decide that we would build up on idea number three, which we quickly started to building on with our computer version, which then even give us an better understand of what it would look like.

Layout for page 2

We also did four hand drawn design ideas for our inside page also, which was just as quick and easy has the cover page. The second page didn't really need as much information on it, which meet there was more space free on the page for adverts and smaller stories. We decided to go with idea one as it was  similar to other newspaper layout out.

Front cover and page 2 layout on computer

Planning for both the cover and inside page as an computer version, although we had come up with our own layout idea's we decided to take the same front as most newspaper companies use, which is 'Times New Roman' and trying to keep the same amount of advert we had on each page. Although many newspaper companies had an similar colour scheme we decide to go with the two most popular colours from our survey. We thought which have an main story, we should have an main image to go with it that would grab the readers attention more then the headlines would.  

Survey- Results

Survey-

Before starting our planning for our newspaper, we decide to hand out an Survey. On the survey we include questions about the local newspaper within our area (News Guardian), that help give us an understanding of what people would expect within an real local newspaper and also asked many questions about our local newspaper, making sure that our newspaper include around of different things that can appeal to an wide range of people and ages. We included many coded questions, to make it easier to company the results but we also included a range of open questions to get people personal views and opinions that they would like to see within our paper. The Survey below.

With the questions above, we started off by asking general questions about a local newspaper to get an understand on how people feel about an local newspaper and their opinion on the use of an newspaper website. We then moved on to asking general questions for our local newspaper, to get an understanding  of what people opinion was on our ideas, but to also get other people views and opinion on what they would like to see within the newspaper, by doing this it help us to understand what we needed to include within the newspaper to make it appeal to all our target audience.

Survey Results-

Our results have been put into an power point, that has then been placed into bar charts to help make to easier to company the results for each questions.

Survey results

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