POSTER

A quick poster to do in my lesson today. Very very behind now must get back on track. Trying to get things done is easy but doing it to a level where I'm happy with it is dragging me behind!

SO yesterday was 31-3-11. March! Course work due next week and I still haven't actually finished the website yet. So will start the poster and finish the website in my own time next week. (I'm blogging this today now to catch up as I can do this at home and have access to a Mac in college only)

This poster was very quickly done and I should've captured more images of each step but I was rushed so have only captured two.

Here is one ..

The background I have chosen is of the Spinnaker Tower, I've given it a transparent effect by about 50%, looks very nice I think - the blue reflects the kind of paper that mine has. Blue is neutral for all audiences.

Also, the Spinnaker is LOCAL so it will target readers of the local area or community in comparison to national news.

I've applied my logo, large and green and in Brittania Bold! And for the same when I have written the SAVE OUR TOWER. KNOW ALL WITH THE SOUTHERN NEWS.

This will show exclusivity to the local readers, and interest and the Spinnaker is a local tourist aspect and represents Portsmouth in a positive light.

It gives basic information to possible readers, like when The Southern News offer the papers from Monday to Friday. The price is expensive for a local newspaper but I'm just trying something different!

Have had a couple of shocked reactions (including my lecturer) "90p!!?" so I think I'm applying some challenging aspects to a typical local newspaper.

The font is kept bold however I changed the layout slightly and added an image to fill the bottom part of the missing blue with another one of the Spinnaker Tower. Also, from comments in class I gathered about the title of the paper having it's own seperate line I also applied this advice and did that. Here is how it looks now!!

Oh, also noting down how I had to keep to the same font, or no more than two. I changed it all to Brittainia Bold to save time. Although looking at it now it looks like it's all different!

I added the website address as at this modern age, more and more people use the internet and interact. A form of Web 2.0, important to apply this to my newspaper to target more potential readers!

I shall edit one of the papers I have shown to make it appear like there's more pages by changing the picture and colour. I will keep that updated! But this gives a visual outlook to potential local readers as this would matter to make people notice.

The subject matter SAVE OUR TOWER would bring the close knit community together as this would apply to local citizens.