In my coursework I have tried to portray the conventions of newspapers into my own work in my own original style. I made it clear to show was I was promoting and what I was trying to introduce to public. I tried to make my layout like some of the other local newspapers I researched making the stories aligned and having a menu down the side to show what's inside the paper. Another convention of the newspaper is the logo and masthead which is always at the top of the page and I have followed this precisely.
I also used different forms and conventions in my paper as I have used two different types of font for my masthead which is not usually used in normal local newspapers. I have done this to attract the reader when purchasing a newspaper. I have tried to portray in one of my stories that most people now a days sterotype kids as horrible and are always associated with crime. I have changed this as one of my stories is about children who are raising money for charity.
How effective is the combination of your media product and your ancillary texts?
From the research I carried out I felt that the products had to be carried out in my main newspaper and my ancillary which were a poster and a website. I felt linking all my ancillary texts with my main task would make the reader/customer realise that if they saw the poster they would be able to recognise the newspaper and website easily.
When I designed and created my poster I researched other posters which helped me with my final idea. Most of the posters researched all had a statement at the bottom. I added this to my poster as the 'Metro' poster had a strong statement to with the morning which is when this newspaper is distributed. I also made my poster about the morning as this is when i wanted my newspaper to focus on. My poster was pretty basic and not too over crowed as I thought 'less is more' which what i always applied to my newspaper as it is not too busy on the page. The website was a lot easier to create as I put some of the articles form the newspaper on it. I also created other pages on the website such as sport and entertainment as i could not add them to the newspaper as I could only create 2 pages.
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
The audience feedback I received when planning and creating my newspaper, posters and websites was both positive and negative. I appreciated the honest opinions of some peopl
e which helped me evaluate my work and change some of according to the feedback I got. I had very mixed reviews when people gave me feedback so I also had to put my own personal opinion towards it to come out with the final outcome. In my opinion my audience feedback was vital in the process of completing my work to produce something that I was completely happy with. Any negative feedback I received was looked upon constructively as there was always room for improvement in my main and ancillary tasks. My target audience is the middle age market as it has important and historical stories in it and a lot of people in this local area would appreciate these stories.
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How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
To achieve the highest standards in my work I used media process for a lot of my work.
For creating my tasks I used
Adobe Photoshop and Paint
Microsoft word
Adobe Photoshop is used a lot in the media business to edit and create photos and layouts for newspapers or
adverts. I have a lot of experience using Adobe Photoshop as i have created pictures before so this was the most easiest programme for me to use to create my newspaper and poster.
For the research stage of the coursework I used both secondary and primary resources:
Google/internet
Questionnaire
Blogger - Coursework.
Piczo - Website
I created my website using the free online website creater. I chose to do a website for one of my ancillary tasks as the internet is used everyday I made a website so everybody can access the newspaper from phones, laptops and computers as most people rely on technology now.
I used primary resources to find out the conventions of newspapers as a member of my family used to work the Daily mail they helped me with the codes and conventions of a newspaper and apply them to my own newspaper. I used Google to search other newspaper websites to help me design and create my own using the website creator Piczo. I used Piczo as it was a free website maker. I could have possibly used the programme Adobe Dreamweaver but this was going to difficult to put on the internet to use as a live website.
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