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evaluation

Evaluation In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? For my poster I developed the conventions of a normal newspaper, I wanted my poster to stand out so I used bright colours and bold writing, this isn’t typical of a news paper advertisement, I looked at other posters and a lot had writing on in big bolds letter so I did the same but challenged this with the bright colours. I added a picture under this of a woman reading a newspaper, this is quite typical of a news paper but decided to use it as it is relevant. For the news paper I decided to stick to the normal conventions of a newspaper as it works well and it needs to be recognised as a newspaper, however in one of my stories I did challenge the normal stereo type of teenagers by adding in a story about a school raising money for charity, this shows teenagers in a better light. My newspaper is a local area newspaper, to stick to normal newspaper conventions I used local stories that the area would be interested in. For example is written about the snow as it is an issue that affects everyone. I used small fonts and pictures of every story to stick to how a normal newspaper would look and the front page has a main heading, every story with main headings. I did not challenge the normal conventions for the website as I feel it works well as it is, I used a main heading at the top and a navigation area to get around the site easily. I made the website easily recognisable by using the same logo and colours I have throughout. There are plenty of pictures and colour so it is not boring. I did this because after looking at other websites such as the sun and the daily news ‘websites I felt this is how it would look best. How affective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? The combination of my main product and ancillary texts work well together as they all are ways of people being aware of my newspaper. To link them together I made a logo that I used on every piece of work that I have done, with this logo I used a colour scheme of red, black and grey that I also used throughout my work. Having the website and poster that look like the newspaper works well in the media industry as it is a way of people finding out about it. By linking my work together it made it look more realistic. I used an advert from my newspaper on my website; I feel this made it look realistic and link together better. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Audience feedback

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Some good points I have heard from my feedback is that my newspaper and ancillary tasks are linked together well, that the stories I have writing link well with my newspaper and that the pictures are relevant and fit in with all my stories. Some points that need working on are, my website – it doesn’t look as professional as it could and the information on it is too similar too to my newspaper front cover making it look almost like a different format of the same work. I also would make my news paper stories more detailed if I had my time over however there is limited space and you don’t want people to get bored of reading the stories. Overall I think I did well with the tasks but the main fault with my work would be the website and if the project came about again I would manage my time better and have more time to work on my website and editing it.

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Media evaluation

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Dartford times poster.

Questionnaire

Questionnaire
How old are you?
[15-20] [21-25] 26-30] [31-40] [40+]

What type of newspaper do you liek to read?
[local] [national]

What type of news are you interested?
[sport] [life stories] [cartoon] [classified]

how often do you read newspapers?
[daily] [weekly] [monthly] [yearly]

How much would you spend on a newspaper?
[10p-30p] [31p-80p] [81p-£1.50] [£1.50+]

What 3 in this list are most important to you in a newspaper?
News
Features
Sport
Cartoon
Horroscopes
Weather
Travel
TV Listings
Classified
Obituary

Which do you prefur?
[Broadsheets] [Tabloids]


Is there anything else not typically in a newspaper you would add in?

Questionnaire results

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Final Idea

Final idea

Main story
There is a huge snow storm one night and because of this the next day there is 7 inches of snow and there is no buses and trains working, there is the worst recorded school attendance for years and lots of businesses are not able to open, there is shortages of grit and huge complaints to the government about the accidents caused by not having grid.

Pictures

There will be a big picture on the front page of the snow and also 2 small pictures to break up the writing. At the top I will have the name of my newspaper 'Dartford Today'

Other

Across the bottom of the page I will have pictures with captions of what are on other pages of the news paper.

Second Page

Story

I will have two small separate stories; one will be about a secondary school in the local area that have raised £5000 for charity doing sponsored activities at school. They have received a special award from the council for their efforts and will have a certificate from the mayor to hang in the school.

The second story will be about a local man in his retirement who got mugged last week outside his home, the youths that attacked this man have been caught although the man in still in hospital he is expected to make a full recovery.

Pictures

There will be one picture on the side of each story.

Other

There will be advertisements down the side of the page.