Thursday 9 December 2010


I started my second page of the newspaper by looking through local newspapers to see what sorts of pages there are, and this is an example of what I have found.
This page is a sports page from the Halstead Gazette, and i am going to use this category as my second page, this is because it is a page that most people are interested in because it shows achievements in sports from people in the area. For example, in the picture, there are two brothers that took part in a Road Runners day, and won a medal.
Also, one of the main stories is that Halstead are moving up on the table, this could be a great stpry to use, as it shows how the town is making more achievements and getting better at what they take part in.

I am now starting to plan my second page, and the layout on the picture is one that i am going to use as a template because it is a good way to put in a few more stories rather than one main story.

Monday 6 December 2010

Final Front Page


This is my finished front page. I have used information from what i found in my questionnaire that I did, for example the main colour that was answered was black.
I have also used different layouts from thw newspapers that I annotated to make it look like a Local newspaper.
Now that I have completed this, I am going to move on to the second page, because piczo still isnt working and it will take up the time that i waste waiting for piczo to work.

Trouble

I have been having trouble doing my website, due to the internet blocking piczo, but also, because I havent had the internet at home. Thefore I have started 2 pages of a newspaper so that i am doing something, and keep having to wait for piczo to work. Over the past week, I have been working on the front page, and I have just finished it.
Because I had researched newspapers earlier in the year, I was able to look through what i had done, plan the front cover and then actually do it.
This researched included:

- Questionnaires
- Annotations of newspapers
- Comparing Local newspapers
- Conventions of local newspapers
- Venns diagram

From all this researched I was able to include different adverts and where to out them, what colours to use from my questionnaire that I made, what layout to use, and what the front headline should be about.