Final Website

Published Website

Link to the final published website http://ebakes313.wix.com/news-and-current-aff.

This is the home page to my newspaper website, its simple but easy to navigate through and has the colour scheme, style that I was originally going for and has relevant content to the area. The site was made with WIX and I used a pre made template to help get the layout that I wanted.

Newspaper Drafting

Making the Newspaper

Front Page Drafts

these are the drafts for the newspaper articles front page, I needed to fill up my page with stories that would suit the newspaper and I needed stories that were form around or in the area of where newspaper is from. The main story I could find that would go well on the newspaper front page was about 82 year old Mr Wilson who went missing, I was going to choose this as it was the latest and most heard of news for the area. The front page of a newspaper usually has a few headline stories with smaller articles around the page, adverts and the newspaper name is located at the top of the page. only a few images are used with two displaying for two stories, most news stories do not have images they rather have only text leaving the reader to imagine the story. There newspaper was made using SAI a Japanese drawing application, I used this instead as I had no access to Photoshop cc which would of made the layout of the newspaper easier to do and I could of done a lot more editing to the fonts and changing around the images.

Final Newspaper Front Page

Final Newspaper Front Page

here is the final front page of my newspaper article, from looking at other existing articles I have used them as inspiration for the front cover. the front page has the main headline stories that will get the most attention from the audience. The price tag is visible on the top left hand side, the main headline title is shown on the top of the newspaper so it is instantly the first thing the reader see's. The main big story has the most content where the other's have not as much content, smaller articles are shown around the newspaper page.

Newspaper Name

Newspaper Name

Ideas

Here are some design ideas and mock ups of some designs for my newspaper name, The main idea I want is the name to be in bold regal lettering to show it is a serious newspaper and to make it look more professional to the audience. The font will be bold so it is eye catching and it will have a more old look to it like what other newspapers use for their titles. Some will have a animal or building that represents the area of the newspaper such as a church or a bird etc.

Here the titles are given plain fonts without any other symbols on them, as I will make them desperately with symbols such as a church, bird etc in another edit to see if I will choose them with or without them for the final title.The names have similar font styles but all differ from each other, they mainly have very slim lettering such as the Hedingham Gazette and the Hedingham Echo titles, while Hedingham Daily is more bold and stands out the most.

Here the titles are made with symbols instead of being a plain font on its own, the Hedingham Echo is given the villages coat of arms as its back drop behind the title this is to show where the newspaper is from and to make it look more like a real newspaper that you would buy. While Hedingham Gazette has the typical birds flying around the font and this is most commonly found on newspapers, it suits the font more to have these symbols than for the other titles. Hedingham Daily is given a more plain looking shield which is  not as detailed as the Hedingham Echo's coat of arms, It has a more plainer look to it. Hedingham Times has a church which is to represent its old church building in the area which is historical in the village.

Masthead Research

Masthead Research

Ideas for Masthead:

Here are some examples of existing mastheads from other newspapers in including The Times, The Independent and the Daily Mail.

I will come up with multiple ideas for what I could use for my newspaper, with help from existing newspaper mastheads I can take inspiration from them such as the design and font style and incorporate that into my designs. An idea I had was a design with a crest like what is seen in the Daily Mail and The Independent, these crest's are used to show where or symbolise where the newspaper is based on its location such as London and this also makes it look unique and also easily recognised to viewers.Some ideas will be variations of one idea with slight changes like the size of the font and font style, each masthead has similarities that they all possess, the design is very simple and most mastheads use a more elegant type font such as what the Daily Mail uses, The Independent uses a similar type font but its not as bold. For my masthead I want it have the same elegant type style font none bold, a crest to represent the location as well which only a few existing newspaper mastheads use. 

Newspaper Name Ideas

Name of Newspaper

Newspaper Name Ideas:

Here are some ideas that I could names my newspaper article, the name must relate to the area so the name of the location must be present and what sort of newspaper article it is such as if it is published every day, weekly etc. These are what I had to consider when I make my newspaper name, every name with the town name the newspaper will be made and published in.

Hedingham Gazette, Hedingham Times, Sible Hedingham News, The Hedingham Guardian, Hedingnham Chronicle. Hedingham Echo, Hedingham Daily.

The three names I have considered for the newspaper is Hedignham Times, Hedingham echo and Hedingham Gazette. These seem the better option for the name of the newsapaper and the final one will be featured on the newspaper website, billboard and mastheads.

Newspaper Name:

The final name I have chosen for my newspaper article is Hedingham echo, I have chosen this name cause it reflects the newspaper and what it is about the most, the name is easily recognised and easy to remember so audiences know what newspaper it is and the name tells when it will be published. I will be doing some mock up ideas of the title and masthead for the newspaper that will also go on the newspaper website on the home page.

Newspaper Audience Research

Newspaper Research

Audience Research

The type of audience I plan to target my newspaper at would be for mainly to adults,young adults and both male and female audience, the content for the newspaper would be more suited to this target audience as it would consist of entertainment news articles and some serious crime news too to balance out the content. content that interested the readers most will provide the most income from the newspaper with the popular new stories help to sell the newspaper and get more recognized, media and entertainment being one of the most popular topics would be the best choice to use for the newspaper for the audience as to gathers the most attention. By using audience research it will help shape the newspaper and to help pick out relevant stories that is suited for my target audience ,as well as to show what the audience wants to see and get a better understanding of what the audiences wants. Using irrelevant stories that are not targeted at my target audience will not be needed and will be a waste of information for the newspaper and that would make the reader interested. 

This is a example of a popular newspaper section from the Daily Mail website called Fe-mail, this is directly targeted to women as suggested in the category name making use of word play with Fe from Female and mail from email. This section has a lot of celebrity news stories and other smaller articles that relate to celebrity and even entertainment news This category of news has been proven to be popular to the public so it will have a lot more content and the newspaper has even bothered to put in in, audience research has shown the writers and producers of the newspaper to provide this for the audience as it proved to be very popular among the public.

 By using polls and reviewing which of the news article categories is the most popular the newspaper can provide the right articles that will catch their audience or a specific targeted audience group such as females for this, online newspapers are able to check on the amount of female and male viewers on their site allowing them to make specific categories or news stories for that gender if they seem more interested in the other.