Font Research

This is an annotation of fonts that me and ismene have researched and came up with this information. The example is comic sans font as people used to use comic sans everywhere but now it is known to be a childish font and not formal and serious.

SECOND PAGE DRAFTS

Here are my drafts for my second page of my newspaper which I created on Indesign the programme which I will be using for my final piece. My chosen layout for my second page is the first draft as I like the way I set everything out and I think everything goes well together, as have the contents of the newspaper at the bottom of the newspaper would not be conventional. I want the audience to read the contents first as I would look for that in a newspaper as soon as I started to read it, because I would want to know about whats featured in the newspaper.

SECOND PAGE STYLE

The style and template I want to follow is the Metros template even though they are a national everyday paper.

Main Article photograph contact sheet

Photoshop editing differences

Raw version

Photoshopped Version

I took these photographs of the sony distribution centre the day after the fire started, as it was still up in smoke. As I planned to create a local newspaper and I wanted to include an article about the riots, I took these. I used photoshop to edit these photos to emphasis the black smoke to look more shocking, I increased the contrast and the brightness.

Photoshop editing differences

Raw version 

Photoshopped Version

This is a second photo I took and I edited it in the same way as the previous photograph.

EDITING MY PHOTOS ON PHOTOSHOP

I am using photoshop to edit my photographs and here I used curves and brightness and contrast for the photograph to stand out to my audience which may lure them in.

NEW DRAFTS MADE ON INDESIGN

Colour scheme

Here I created a colour scheme for our newspaper and made different types of red and we are going to go for the 3rd red and use it for The Enfield and then Holla will be in black.

Font ideas draft

The Photography and Design of our newspaper

"Impact versus beauty"
"Most designers will probably wish to produce a magazine that is a beautiful aesthetic object - but beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder and a subjective value that does not always work best towards particular designs. As Morrish (2003) observes, for many titles beauty is a far too static ideal and what a good designer works is impact.
This can be very evident in some of the best-selling titles in the UK, European and American markets, some of which look garish by any standards. Notions such as harmonising or selecting subtle images and logos appear to have been discarded, to be replaced by bright, neon lettering on brash, day-glo colours. And yet the designs of these magazines work - battling it out on the front line of the newsstand to attract notoriously promiscuous readers who flit from title to title each week.
Of course, when chasing mass market, the design techniques for such titles have to be loud and rather kitsch. But titles that do not seek such wide circulation will obviously wish to announce very different values in terms of design. Using more restrained colours and balanced designs, titles such as Vogue and Wallpaper* wish to indicate to both advertisers and readers that they are much classier than the tabloids. One publisher I knew would regularly read Cigar Afficionado: he did not smoke, and thus had little interest in cigars themselves, but the lush advertising and understated articles on the finer things of life appealed to the rich life-style he wished to lead ( or, equally importantly, wished others to believe he led).
'Magazine Production'
'Jason Whittaker'

Flatplans

Cover

Second Page

Plan

• Create flat plans for newspaper
• Write articles
• Plan days for photoshoots
• Create plans for adverts 

Interview questions

Here are some questions that I am going to ask my interviewees which are going to be included in my article.

1. Where were you at the time of the Enfield riot when everything kicked off?
2. How was your business effected by the riots?
3. The goods that were stolen, how much moneys worth was taken?
4. When did you hear that your shop was broken into?
5. What was your reaction when you heard about this?
6. Has the Enfield riot changed your perspective on Enfield?
7. Do you think that Enfield is a safe community and the riot was a one off thing?

Initial ideas for our local newspaper articles

• Riots 
• Papped in Enfield
• Local businesses 

We want to write about the riots in enfield, and why it happened. We want to interview local businesses who were effected by the riots and how it change them and the community. Me and Issy would like to interview rioters, and we are going to try to get in contact with a prison so we can interview prisoners who were convicted because of rioting. We would record these interviews and put the recordings on to our sound cloud, as well as including these interviews in our riot article.

We are going to include on our second page a 'Papped In Enfield' section of celebs in the area and include 'paparazzi' shots, we our going to include Fazer from N-Dubz and Wretch 32 as well as celeb look a likes being papped.

In our local newspaper we are including advertisements for local businesses e.g, cultural food shops as we want to make our local newspaper multi cultural as there are many different cultures in enfield. I am going to photograph a local greek deli,  as well as a jamaican deli.

Our Chosen Title For Our Newspaper

This is a brain storm idea for our newspaper, we were building up our ideas through this and eventually came up with our title name. Our chosen title for our newspaper is The Enfield Holla, the reason why we choose this title is because it is inviting to a younger audience. 'Holla' means talk to me later and is slang term.

Fonts

What is more, in all but the dullest magazine designs, text has to work in conjunction with other graphic elements, particularly photographs or illustrations and also colour on page.
Font size has an important part to play in page design, with larger text catching the readers eye more quickly than small text, and setting different type sizes will build up its own logic of how to read the page.
Captions, for example, will typically be in smaller font size than body text, yet by placing them in bold the readers eye will be drawn to them more quickly. Similarly, use of italics is the most common way to emphaisise text, but sometimes the use of different face such as small caps can have a more dramatic impact.
Even worse is the tendency to mix a large number of typefaces on a page-a particularly heinous crime if it is done within body text. At best, a designer will restrict him or herself to three or four different typefaces to clearly mark out separate design elements, such as headings, subheadings, captions and bossy text.

Puns

The humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasizeor suggest its different meanings or applications, or the useof words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but differentin meaning; a play on words. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pun

The Sun newspaper often uses puns for their stories, like the photo on the left is taking the 'mick' as you would say out of Micheal jackson. As he has gone out in his pyjamas they have named the story 'BANANAS IN PYJAMAS' which is saying that he is 'BANANAS', which means crazy, for going out in public with his pyjamas on.

This story is about Elton John and his husband who are known in the media to be gay. The Sun have made the headline of the story 'ELTON TAKES DAVID UP THE AISLE' this is a crude and sexual pun based on slang language. As they have got married they are turning the words into a rude sense.

As me and Issy want to create a tabloid local newspaper I researched Puns as they are mainly used in tabloid papers as you would not see puns in broadsheets as they are more formal. We would like to use Puns in our paper as it is a jokey way of connecting with our audience.

Analysis of Local newspaper

The headline uses short and emotive language 'BARBER SHOP ATTACK SHOCK", snappy words are used to catch and draw in the readers attention. The Flag has primary colours to it as well as the rest of the front cover, orange and yellow are used, this is a part of the newspapers house style. The photograph used for the main headline story is an ordinary photo of a barber shop which means an ordinary place turns into a scene of attack and this would be shocking to audiences, as the audience might even go to this barber shop. Most of the newspaper's cover is made up of adverts as thats most likely to be there main income of the local newspaper. All of the companies featured are local and the audience can relate to as they know the communities businesses. Tabloid newspapers use simple and use a restricted code of language which means anyone can read it. The main points of the story are covered within the first few sentences, as many people don't actually read the whole story and just take a glance. 

With the second page of the newspaper it is dominated by a single advert. Businesses use this as it is a cheap and effective way of advertising. As still being a tabloid newspaper Rotheraham records still uses articles which you would see in a broadsheet paper. The article 'BEWARE OF THE SUN DANGER' is a national story which has a local context. I think that the articles on the second page are more formal articles as there are many columns which common tabloid readers would want to read as they prefer easy articles to read. They use more of a factual mode of address. The article about the sun damage is an example. The article uses elaborate code language whilst tabloid papers uses a restricted code of language. I think that this article contradicts the tabloid media convention.