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.