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Unit 57 Assignment - Louise Reed Photography

Task A

Whilst researching the page layout and sizes for the typical pages of the guardian, I have discovered that the sizes needed for my article front page are 315 x 470. The font of the paper is a specially created for this particular page design.

Page size -http://www.theguardian.com/theberliner/story/0,,1566039,00.html
Portrait -http://whatisphotography101.blogspot.co.uk/
Landscape - http://es.azimage.com/image/nature-landscapes-lakes-water-reflection-color-bright-sunrise-sunset-sky-2877043
Photo Journalism John Thompson -http://petapixel.com/2013/08/14/19th-century-london-street-photography-by-john-thomson/
Photo Journalism Dorothea Lange -http://odaaniepce.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/the-family-of-man-la-exposicion-fotografica-mas-popular-de-la-historia/
Own Knowledge/Research -http://victorslynnmmlj2014.blogspot.co.uk/

Study week assignment - Make your own newspaper

1.     How has the questionnaire helped to determine content for your paper?

    it has given me a wide range of answers and the quantitive questions have allowed me to gain an average of the results received 

2.     Was the data easy to understand?

    it was easy as I phrased the questions well, and that allowed me to get direct and detailed responses that were easy to understand.

3.     Did any of the results surprise you?

    There were a couple of answers for the price of the paper which were higher than expected, which ultimately increased the average price of the paper.

4.     How did you use a range of open and closed questions?

   i used closed questions more as i wanted to direct the answers to get a better result in the end.

5.     How did you use a range of qualitative and quantitative questions?

    an example of a qualitative question is 'What interests you?', alternately an example of a quantitive question, is 'how much would you pay for this paper'.  

6.     Were your questions relevant and useful to your product?

   They were very relevant for my product as it gave me plenty of details and bases to go by when designing my newspaper and working out the price of the paper.

7.     Could you have done this more effectively? If so how?

  I think i could have included more questions to gain a better range of results.

1.     How have you tried to use a range of secondary sources?

     i have used newspapers themselves to look at the type of font used, and the layout of the paper so i can gauge a rough idea of where to place certain things.

2.     Why have you decided to use the sources that you have?

    Because then i can increase the reliability of the research

3.     How reliable / useful have they been?

   Very, due to finding repeated results on various forms of research so therefore increasing its reliability

4.     What has your secondary research shown you?

   that the layout for newspapers are both varied and quite similar, with colour and font along with the logo being the main difference with the use of colour and contrast to increase the papers' readability.

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InDesign Article Practice

 Here you can see i have edited some shapes and a couple of words on InDesign. I have added drop shadow to the shapes to give a more 3-D Effect and it also makes the shapes seem bolder, which allow them to stand out a lot more. I can also use the angle tool to decide at what angle i wanted to make the shadow, this was quite fun to use and it made the shape look completely different depending on which angle you had the shadow at. For the rectangle on the right hand side, I changed the gradient within the shape and also inserted a various amount of colours to make the shape more eye catching.

At the start of the document, I selected three columns and made the gutter the size that I needed. I then changed the back ground of the article by inserting a rectangle and putting the colours white and blue within it, then changed the gradient that the line appears at. My next task was to use the pen tool and the rectangle tool to make the football pitch in the top right hand corner, i then had to select all of the shapes and then resize and position the pitch in the top right hand corner. The headline was made by creating drop shadow and changing the font, thus making me need to change the size of the text. I needed to insert the text next, and dropped the text in and then used the '+' sign to drag the rest of the text through the article. Finally i needed to wrap the text around the images to make the article look a lot more professional.

Research Techniques

11. When was the first daily Newspaper published?

       First daily newspaper published in 1702

  2. Why do you think there was a small circulation of newspapers at this time

2   There was a small circulation at this time because society was not as well educated as it is today.

p3. Why did newspapers become more popular n the 19th century?

3     Newspapers became more popular because more people were starting to get educated, and it was on the tail end f the 19^th century.

  4. Why were they so powerful at the beginning of the 19th century?

4   They were powerful at the beginning of the 19^th century because that was the major source of local media 

  5. What changed in the 20th century to affect the power of newspaper?

      What affected the importance of newspapers was the introduction of: radio (1910’s), Television (1950’s) and the internet (1990’s)

  6. How do you think newspapers have had to overcome these changes?

6     Newspapers have had to overcome these changes by broadening the way their information is outputted, i.e. Websites, Radio, Magazines and APPS

Article Layout Practice

InDesign work - To create the layout i selected three columns at the start then inserted text boxes to include the article. I then dragged the images from my desktop into InDesign, then used the 'proportional fitting tool' so that the images fitted in the columns.

InDesign Text and shape Practice

InDesign work - Creating shapes using the Polygon tool

InDesign work - creating text along a path using the pen path tool

InDesign work - Creating shapes and then inserting text within the text

InDesign work - Using a text box to add simple text