Updates

Within the past few weeks we have been working on putting our newspaper together using all of our previous research and knowledge. In doing this we chose our final layout designs (as shown below), wrote the stories, took pictures and began using photoshop to construct the advertisements.

          I began by contructing a music venue advertisement for the second page of the newspaper. We chose to do advertise this due to our findings in our target audience survey. In doing this I used an existing logo of the 'Sno Zone' in Milton Keynes as I felt that I wanted to add some realism to the newspaper as the 'Sno Bar' I am advertising already exists. Using photoshop I edited the logo to change it from 'Sno Zone' to 'Sno Bar' to advertise the music venue. I then used my raw photography to advertise the band, once more using photoshop to enhance the images and the advertisement.

          After this I then began constructing the newspaper using our logo which we had previously constructed using a raw image and text on photoshop. Using the codes and conventions of local newspapers we have studied we put together our news stories on the pages, which I wrote during the planning stages of the newspaper. I felt in doing this on photoshop that we were able to produce a more realistic newspaper style, however I found it difficult to produce the font size and style so that it reflected a conventional newspaper.

          In doing this for both the front and second pages for the newspaper, our next tasks entail going to take pictures for our front page, editing a raw image for our second story to ensure the composition is effective and will lure the reader in. We also need to take pictures for our final advertisement and finalise the two adverts we have already began. After this we will then move on to our ancillary tasks.