NEW PAPER

CHANGE .. AGAIN. I've changed the idea again, just looking at what I'd done so far just appeared more like a poster or a leaflet of some sort rather than a newspaper. It looked too neat or maybe the wording wasn't right. So I've made changes and I feel much better about it now! Here's how it looks so far. <--- I much prefer the alliteration in my title. I've shortened the picture because I believe no-one really needs to see the whole tower as a local citizen would already know what it looks like.

In my story I can give some information on what experts say about buildings etc. I feel much better with this one, it looks more like a newspaper ..finally. From feedback today I've had much more positive comments also, mostly on my catchy title but also on the layout. They've all literally commented on how the change of shape of the same photo has made a large difference to my piece. I'm pretty happy with it, now I can move on!

Although I'm beginning to see what I'm like when 'planning' and I really haven't gone with my template anymore, however I will see this as a learning curve and I have learned the type of convention in layout for my newspaper.

Things have to be squashed in at first (as I see that The News manage to fit loads in) but it does sort of plan out eventually! Colour is important, I'm not too sure on the kind of colours I have used for mine just yet ... and the story below it. I will probably change the picture for something with people in for a more personal because I see how The News personalise their stories as local people can relate to it more in comparison to an national newspaper.

INNER PAGE

Starting inner page today! Date? 10th February. Sorted the layout into 6 columns as this is how the main guidelines are usually set as from looking at other peers' work. I've played around with what kind of content I'm going to put in, it's looking pretty awful at the moment.

The colour of the border doesn't look good, appears more like a baby-ish sort of poster.

The INSIDE... font is TRUE STORIES. It doesn't look the part but I am working on it until I feel that it matches up to my front cover kind of content. I had tried using the same font but it didn't seem like a different page to the font so I'd like to distinguish the difference.

The story on the side will be about the kebab chip shop, how they're ruining the sewage system! I took this picture during one morning as I was walking past, pretty good timing as it was shut at this time

which will support my story about how it's now closed. And I shall also work on thefont!

The bottom is a TOPSHOP logo which I took on my phone a long time ago from a

TOPSHOP bag; I will use this to advertise most probably.

Now trying to pin point particular things right otherwise I'l be all over the place like I was when completing my front cover page. Starting with the top border I'm using a picture I've taken of a friend who works at a market in Portsmouth! Fish ...yum. This is how it looked when I began to photo shop and then after ...

From this <-- to THIS -->

I used some form of cutting then managed to smooth out the edges! I can't remember the technical words for it however I am pretty chuffed with how it's turned out. A picture of someone smiling is something I often see on a top border of a newspaper like The News.

Now my page looks like this! <--

Just throwing in some photos I have, changed one around already so I'l pop that in in a moment. I quite like how colourful the picture of the group of people are, it looks interesting to see something like this as it will make the reader think of questions to what these people are doing and why.

Now done some more and cropped my large picture of people walking to just this ..

and now decided to pop that into my higher border and give the title a 'STRIKE STILL TAKES PLACE IN COSHAM' .. might change it later but right now I'm just going to do with that.

Now moving my other picture to a larger size and changing my columns (to just 4 - because needed the space for the writing) ...it seems a little more organised.

Now I'm just adding some more to it! The bottom part with TOPSHOP I've added some details and placed a background by using drop sign thing that uses the same colour as the background of my picture. And the font I've used is 'Vtks good luck for you'.

I shall decide later whether it looks good or not once I've filled the rest out! I think it looks presentable on it's own however because of the dark dingy kind of grey colour used, does look slightly different to the rest of the colours chosen in my inner page. So this will be something considered changing later perhaps?!

16-02-11

Right, moving on, I've changed quite a bit about. I will change the TOPSHOP advertisement as it looks far too dull - but will do that a bit later. I've titled my main story like "KEEPING YOUR COOL IN A STICKY SITUATION" Continued ...and shall write up my story a little bit later on!

THE PAPER

RIGHT.. I'm constantly changing my mind at the moment, must make decisions and stick to them! I've forgotten to upload my image of the kebab shop onto my USB stick, so I'm just using what I've got now. For the sides of my paper I've began on a couple of stories, one about the caving charity act - and the other I'm not too sure about. I've changed my front cover and decided to usemy Spinnaker image as I think it appears highly attractive.. the bright blue of the sky presents a nice positive image of Portsmouth and I know that THE NEWS like to portray the Spinnaker in good lights also.

Above the name of the paper, I have inserted 'HAVANT AND PORTSMOUTH' in order to situate the locality of the paper. Beside it I've popped a story about a care home being sued for medical mistake.

Soo this is how it looks so far .. I think it's coming together, especially once I put in the book offer, by tilting the photo to the side I've been able to give an edge to the advertisement/offer. The colours from the main picture of the spinnaker and the small one of the book go quite well with eachother; blues and darker shades. However I need to do something about the layout, I'm struggling to figure out where to place the sides of the paper as it appeared rather cramped when I tried it. I will have to think about it for next time.. but in the mean time I will come up with a story for my inside page and therefore research on some real facts about the Spinnaker so I have more to say. :)

Today I have edited on some parts of the front cover, just sizing most of all trying to make it appear more proportional, the title of the paper 'THE SOUTHERN NEWS' and the headlines need to stand out much more. The sizing on the top part about the book vouchers has been made much smaller so it doesn't over power the name of the paper. I've added an offer on the bottom about a Thai restaurant and used a 'XBAND rough' font as this appears like a type of foreign look in a dark brown against my orange background - I've added in the name, address and phone number .. short and sweet.