Front Cover Progress - Title

I will be changing the colour of my title based upon my colour scheme
after researching what colours are more attractive to those of a younger age I will be using the colour burgundy. I have also chosen this colour as I feel like the stereotypical colours for newspapers are blue and red, I want my newspaper to stand out more.

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When creating the dateline I noticed that I had used the incorrect font and did not think that it looked right on the page, this is when I went on to change the font to a new one which I also found of 1001fonts.com

I chose Saturday 21st May in particular because after research I discovered that Saturdays were the most beneficial day to sell newspapers on, this is near the end of the week so you can cover stories briefly from throughout the whole week, can also discuss football matches and other sporting activities which will be occurring that day or the following as weekend newspapers are well known for their sporting sections.

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Once I had selected the photo I wanted to use I had to ensure that everything was perfect and that it was looking exactly the way I wanted it to, to achieve this I opened up the image on Adobe Photoshop

I then began to crop it to the correct size, I did not want the people to be in the background.

and enhance the brightness and contrast on the image to ensure that it doesn't look out of proportion.

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I took photos of the model for my front cover in front of Newcastle Crown Court in order to link my main image on the front cover with the story on the second page. Allowing the photos to be taken in that location will make the newspaper more appear more realistic

I felt like this angle would have been better for the second page, so I will not be using this image.

I felt like this image looked too staged, this is something which I did not want to happen, so I will not be using this image.

I think this will be the image which I use this image, I really like the way that Courtney is the main focus but you can also see her location easily.

This was another image I took, I liked the way this one was set out, but due to not being able to see my models face much I chose not to use it.

Newspaper Names

As all newspapers need to have a name, preferably linking to the area where they will be covering stories, so I have came up with a few ideas such as:

Tyne Meridonal
Daily Tyne
NE Observer
Tyne News
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The next step once choosing my newspaper name will be to choose a font from 1001fonts.com

Advert Bar Progress

This is the process of making my advert bar.

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I have now selected a font to use for my dateline which is called Caslon OS, this font is slightly similar to the one which is used on the Evening Chronicle which I am using as my style model.

 

After creating a questionnaire and researching how much I should charge for my newspaper, I came to the conclusion that I should charge my target audience and the general public 60p.

 

I have also now removed the competition section of my newspaper, I felt like it would not fit within the layout of the front cover; I have also already featured a competition within the sidebar.