This is the link to my powerpoint presentatino containing my evaluation: http://www.slideshare.net/hcar9103/evaluation-7564414

Today i have been using Powerpoint to complete my evaluation for this media project. To do the evaluation we had to answer 4 questions. They were: 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? 3. What have you learned from your audience feedback? 4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages.

Website

This is the web address for my newspaper site:

http://intranet.southdowns.ac.uk/studentweb/a2media/30044578

These are two screenshots of my website. The full two pages are available at the link above.

These are all the images of my final pieces of work for the newspaper.

This is an image of the poster that i designed for my newspaper.

This took very little time and was very easy to make but i think that it is very effective as an advertisement for my paper.

I simply used inDesign to insert my masthead from my front page and to add the rest of the wording to a photograph that i took of the fountains by Southsea castle.

As you can see i have maintained thee colour scheme here as i have done with my other pages. This is to help maintain a sense of brand and identity for my newspaper so that people can identify with it and are able to pick it out from competitors.

This is a small feature i have placed on the website that gives a short preview of what content will be included in the newspaper on that day. I think that this is a good idea as it allows people to easily find out whether they want to buy the hard copy of the newspaper that day. I think this would be a very good ida to encourage younger readers to start buying the newspaper as most young people turn on their computers and go on the internet first thing in the morning meaning that they could look at this feature early on in the day and then go and buy a copy.

This is a feature that i am quite proud of on my webpage. This is an RSS feed that i added to give rolling news updates on the front page of my website. It is also a good way of delivering important pieces of news quickly to the public, making sure that they are hearing it from your website first.

This is the top of the welcome page of my website. I have imported the logo of my newspaper from in design as i think that it is important to have a recognizable logo to tell viewers straight away that they re in the right place.

I used the inspector feature on the Iweb program and then the graphics menu to do the faded colour on the search bar, i feel that this adds a very professional feel and makes the website look more sleek. I also added a sponsor as newspapers reserve a lot of space to allow for advertising as this makes them a lot of money.

Inside page

This is a picture of the inside page of my newspaper. I have added more stories and an advertisement since the last update o the blog.

I think that the photograph i used for the junk mail piece was good as it suits a newspaper style and clearly demonstrates and epitomizes the issue discussed in the article.

I also used photoshop in order to cut out the figures used in the banner at the top of the page. I photographed them normally and the using the pen tool i drew around the figures and coped them in. This prevents the white box appearing around the figure and gives a much more aesthetically pleasing newspaper. These figures are also good for drawing the reader quickly to the text next to them, this in turn directs them to pages further into the newspaper and allows them to ski straight to stories that they are interested in.

I have also included a weather description on the left hand side of the page as most local newspapers that i have looked at include some sort of weather report about the local area. I think that the format of an individual day forcast and then a prediction for the next four days is a good idea as it provides people with exact weather information, enabling them to plan their day around it. The four day one also provides a prediction that could then be refined each day, in each issue of the paper.

This is the inside page of my newspaper so far. i have now added all the stories and have decided that the box entitled story three is now going to become an advertisement.

I have also completed the weather table in the bottom right hand corner of the page. After looking at several other local newspapers, the weather information seems to be very important and is a useful guide for tourists as well as local people.

I think that my inside page has just the right amount of information on it as some others that i have looked at over load on the text a little and i think that this makes the stories a lot harder to separate from one another and read.

This is another story that I have written for the inside page of my newspaper. This story is another human interest story and is a good one for the inside page as it has a serious story in it and features a strong sense of victim within the community. I have found that many local newspapers like to feature a story about a victim within the community as it strengthens community spirit when people feel empathy for their neighbors.

Burgled 10 times

Local female resident Jenny Michaels’ house in North End was burgled last night for the tenth time in less than a month. It is the most recent in a succession of malicious burglaries carried out at Ms Michaels house on the Northern Rd.

The thieves have broken into her house using, windows, the back door, front door, conservatory windows and even the drainpipe.

Ms Michaels says that she believes a group linked to her ex husband is behind the spree of crimes, she claims that her recently divorced husband, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been the main implementer of the robberies due to soured relations between the pair.

Police have now arrested three suspects and are detaining them currently for further questioning.

This is what i have done so far for my inside page. As you can see i have added the writing for the story at the top of the page. This story is about the distribution of junk mail around Portsmouth and the council thinking about passing a bylaw in order to ban its use in the and around the area.

I have also added the headline for the story that will be going in at the bottom of the page.

I still need to insert the weather information on the left of the page and the second figure and tag for the story at the top of the page in the blue banner.

This is the first start that i have made on designing the actual style of my inside page. I have based my design for this page on the style used in the Portsmouth News as i think that their style of newspaper is very sophisticated yet still able to appeal to the average reader.

I have decided to use the graduated colour change in the block a the top of the page as i think that this gives the page a cool and upmarket look as it i much easier on the eye than a solid block of colour.

The small photograph that i used at the top of the page is one that i took of my friend and then added to photoshop to cut away the back ground behind him. I then used the feather tool and softened the edges in order to get the picture to sit subtly on top of the coloured area without the jagged edges, caused by the cutting out, to make the design look shabby.

I have also added the break lines in order to separate the story from the header and ti simply border off the small story page references at the top.