Layout for Inside Page

This is a layout plan that i made up for my inside page.

It works quite well i think and does actually follow a similar plan to an already existing newspaper.

I think that this layout is fairly good as it allows or enough room to cover a few small stories without the text being overwhelming.

However i don't really like the way that the items look do haphazard and spread out although i think it would look better once the text and images had been applied.

I also need to fill the space at the bottom left of the page. An advertisement could possible be place in this space.

Inside Page

I am now moving on to designing the inside page of my newspaper.

The page will be he inside of the front cover and would be page number 2 in the newspaper.

This page will feature three stories in total. They will be quite small stories probably cover only a space of about 1 to 3, quite short, columns in total.

My inside page will also feature a column containing a service for the readers of the newspaper. For example some newspapers do an inside column on the weather, i was also thinking about including a roadworks status section or as i found in the new

spaper; 'The Halifax Courier' information on mobile speed cameras within the area.

This is my final plan of the front page. The only element now missing is the text but i have the layout, colours, images and advertisements all done.

I have filled the two banners i talked about in the last blog post with information and pictures about what else is in the newspaper.

These are pictures that i took when looking for the main image for my front page. They were images that i originally decided not to use for my main image as they did not suit what i wanted however i think that they work very well as smaller side images informing the reader of other stories later on inside the paper.

I have also added a small banner along the bottom showing information about the sports page at the back of the newspaper and an advert for the nightclub: 'Tiger Tiger'. Nearly all local newspapers have adverts on the front page as they can sell space on their front page for huge amounts. Therefore this builds upon the professional look i am trying to achieve with the rest of my newspaper.

This i my front page after some more work adding in the main picture for the front page story. I think the size of my main photo is good as it is big enough to capture the public's attention but does not over shadow the rest of the front page and still allows for the text and banners to be placed in and around it.

As you can see i have also added the banner on the right hand side of the page and one just underneath the £50,000 pounds advert. I am going to use these as space for advertising what other information and stories are covered inside of the newspaper.

These are crucial and must be included in order to inform the reader what else is inside the paper and the relevant page numbers for what they want to read about.

This is an advert i designed for the front cover of my newspaper. I will later add ore information to the frame as the viewer needs to be told where o look inside the newspaper in order to enter the competition.

I took the photo of the hand holding the money myself. I think this small accent helps to make the advert look a lot more professional and helps to get people more excited as money is very eye catching and people always want something for nothing.

This is my layout after some more work.

I have added the masthead and come up with a basic colour scheme of blue and red. I have also decided upon a name and catchphrase for my newspaper and put these in effectively.

I decided on the font for the title after building a couple of sample mastheads.

These are just a couple of the examples that i looked at and thought about using:

Portsmouth Edition

Portsmouth Edition

Portsmouth Edition

I think that font that i chose for the masthead in the end is the most eye catching and makes the newspaper look professional, much like one that you wold see on sale in a shop.

This is the first layout i decided on for the front page of my newspaper.

I took inspiration from 'The Portsmouth News' in order to come up with this layout as i think that it is a very stereotypical layout for a contemporary local newspaper.

I am going to keep the top half of my final layout pretty similar to this as i think that it works well and that it presents a ver professional look to the customer.

However i am going to change the lower portion slightly by adding in more pictures and banners showing information about what else is inside the paper.

Story 1: Southsea and Portsmouth tourist attractions

Story 1: youths

Is Portsmouth’s heritage and public history open to threat? A recent survey carried out on a range of outside visitors to the city, found that many people are put off from visiting certain attractions and exploring certain places in the city by anti social behaviour. The problem, according to the comments and opinions expressed by the randomly selected group, is mainly confined to Southsea and inner city areas of Portsmouth. Some attractions that people named as being particularly affected are Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Southsea Waterfront (later in the day), the Gunwharf complex, Commercial road and the Charles Dickens birth pace museum. A high level of ‘uneasiness’ was felt by some of the visitors to these locations with one woman saying that she ‘ felt angry and scared’ by people ‘ruining her visit’.

Adam Jenkins (visitor manager at the D-Day Museum, Southsea) said that he has seen evidence of visitors encountering some groups near the entrance to the museum and said that the problem is ‘heightened’ during the summer when many youth groups use nearby Southsea common for parties involving alcohol. He said that ‘it Is a real shame that people would ruin some of Portsmouth’s main selling points’ which in turn would most probably lead to the financial suffering of these cultural locations in the city.

Photos

I have place some of the possible pictures that i could use for stories on both the front page and website etc. of my newspaper on Tumblr. The link to this site is here.

The pictures i have put on the Tumblr account are probably not attention grabbing enough to be used as headline news but could certainly be used as side stories.

News over 6 days: 20th September- Yorkshire Post

The Yorkshire Post - The Yorkshire post has a fairly busy front page. The masthead is quite small and does not dominate the front page that much compared to other newspapers like The Sun that have a fairly dominan

t title logo. Beneath this there is a banner advertisement, the majority of which is given to showing part of the sports section of the newspa

per and giving a page number to turn to to find the rest of the story. The right hand side of this banner (about 2 inches of which) is used to advertise a story featured in the business section. The main photo on the front page is of the Pope. This shows that this paper is open to covering more national high profile events and is not such a focused in local paper as some are.

The rest of this front page is filled with text. This is unusual for newspapers as they normally keep heavy text to a minimum on the front page to avoid bogging down the cover and to make sure that the paper is eye catching.

The bottom two inches of the centre cover contain some information about the weather report for that particular day. I think this is quite a good idea and one that make endear people to the paper as it presents them with useful information that they want to know on the front of the paper.

Over the six days of the Yorkshire Post newspaper the layout remains pretty much the same throughout. The only real variable that changes from day to day is the size of the Picture for the front page story. On the issue for the 21st as well the large advertising column has been removed and a new banner advertisement placed along the bottom.

News over 6 days part 1:

The News - Saturday October 2nd 2010

The Portsmouth News normaly keeps a fairly simlilar front page style from day to day. On this particular day the front page is pretty much split into four sections. At the very top of the page we have the newspapers logo with the price just tothe right and a tagline of one of the stories just above.

Next down there is a banner advertisement. On this day it is showing an image of a free insert that comes with this issue of the paper and has the words '32 pages packed full of great ideas'. The booklet is about homes and gardens and the viewer can tell this as it is printed in a large font across the middle of the paper. More space is given to this advertisement than is given to the masthead.

Below this comes the main headline of the front page. On this issue it reads 'three years jail for care home theif'. This is printed in a very large font and is acompanied with a smaller extremely brief tagline of information about what the story's content covers. This part of the page takes up the most room of any other box. This is because the main story is the main selling point of that paper so it needs to b the most eye catching element of the page. Less emphasis can be put on the title as people who buy the paper wont need to be able to identify it from a distance they will be able to spot it easily and tell it apart from others, however they will want to know what is going to be covered quickly upon first inspection of the issue.

The bottom three inches of the front page is given over to another advertising banner. This one though is given less priority as it is not for another part of the Newspaper's own product and is an external post paid for by a different business. The left column is also given over to advertising but again this is to advertise more parts of the News' own business. The top 4 inches of this column is advertising a childrens giveaway offer allowing children to win 'Ben and Holly DVDs and ponchos'. This is normaly the last thing people will look at on the page as the viewers eyes will tend to follow a Z pattern of scanning. This small banner also feautres information on the paper's sports section and gives reference for the page number to look for for the rest of the article.

Human Interest

Human interest

This term refers to stories and articles in newspapers that are designed specificaly to make the person reading it feel good and to gain their interest in a positive way. These types of stories are often covered in non-profit making media outlets like free newspapers. These types ofstories are also good as they leave the reader with a positive view of the newspaper that they have just read it in.

This is an example of a human interest story on The News' website: Opportunity could change young peoples lives. The story focuses on positive things happening for young people and works to defy common beliefs that young people are not the model citizens they could be.

Ethos

The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, movement.

Ethos is very important to news organisations as it is the character of their media outlet. For example:The News focuses alot on children and what is happening for the younger generation in the Portsmouth area as you can see in this story from 1st October 2010: 'School cuts are set to damage my son's education'. This story clearly illustrates a caring and sensitive ethos held by the news and shows that they like to bring stories of disadvantage to light. If you compare the last story to this one from the Daily Mail website of the same date: BBC stars condemn politically biased union plans to black out next week's Tory conference. As you can see this story from the Daily Mail is written about a much more high profile case and features a story that has no real impact on normal people. This shows an ethos employed by the Daily Mail of bringing high profile information to people and has less space within its pages for stories about individual lower profile cases.

Inverted Triangle

The inverted triangle is a diagram showing how a news article should idealy be written. The most important information is contained in the top paragraph. This is the paragraph that is first read by the viewer. In order to maintain the readers interest they must have important and interesting facts delivered to them early on in order to keep them hooked. The middle of the triangle contains more interesting and important information about the story. The bottom and smallest part of the trianlge contains less important, peripheral information that can be cut by the editor if needs be to make the articla fit in the newspaper.

Pre-prodution: The News

The Portsmouth News

Areas of Circulation

The News divides itself into three areas of circulation. These are: The City, Havant and Waterlooville and Fareham and Gosport. In their media pack they say that this is done to insure that they can maximize the contents appeal to people within each area. For example a story about a new school opening in Portsmouth's inner city, for instance, would probably not interest someone who lived in Fareham as it would probably not affect them.

Audience

The News has a circulation of 48,191 (ABC January - June 2009) and a readership of 112,939 people (jicreg 01/10/2009). The News say that their audience reflects the local population so therefore takes its readership from a wide age range and do not specificaly target any particularly tight age range. They also say that 67% of adults read The News for information on events, jobs and attractions etc. The News' media pack also claims that the average reader spends 31 minutes reading an issue.

Click here; This is the media pack made by the Portsmouth news containing the facts and figures about circulation and areas of distribution etc.

Pre-Production: Local Newspaper

Newsworthiness

This is the word applied to how important and how deserving a particular story is of being covered within a piece of journalistic media such as a newspaper. This can also be subdivided into categories entitled; news values and bias.

News Values

This describes the level of prominence given to a certain story or type of story by different media outlets. This is particularly true for newspapers. The news worthiness values vary from paper to paper, for example tabloid newspapers will contain more coverage of stories involving celebrities for example whereas broadsheets such as the times will contain more political stories designed appeal to an older more middle class demographic compared to primary audience of tabloid newspapers such as the sun which have an audience more within the working class.

Bias

Bias within media outlets such as the news is often carried out in order to support particular political parties, leaders or ideologies. This means that when a media organisation is bias they will only run stories beneficial to the institution that they are tied with or support, they may also run other stories but will attempt to slant them in order to show their partner in a beneficial light.

Other types of bias normaly found within newspapers include:

• Corporate bias - The practice of using news to support the media corporation that owns that particular media outlet and using the news that is covered to improve peoples opinions of that corporation.
• Mainstream bias - This is the term used to describe the practice of only covering what other newspapers are covering at the same time and not running stories that are different from the ordinary at that time and may single out that particular media company as controversial.
• Sensationalism - This is when media outlets only cover high profile events and events that do not happen on a regular basis. When this is done regularly it starts to conceive the view that only big events like this happen and that these are the norm due to the lack of coverage of more expected day to day stories.

Local Newspaper

A local newspaper is a newspaper that applies its coverage to a small area such as a county or a city. These newspapers do not cover large scale national and international issues normaly unless they affect the audience within their distribution area and the area that they actually cover. These newspapers often have a smaller demographic than larger newspapers and appeal to a more specific middle aged group.