Tasks to do during half term

• Upload photographs to flickr, then link to blog
• Produce additional news stories to include on the pages
• Produce a couple of adverts

Additional stories to cover on second page

• Euro millions ticket winner
• Son rescues dad from sinking yatch
• 75 year old finally passes driving test

Logo Experimentation.

I have finalised my logo and decided to go with this design. I believe it is suitable to represent a tabloid newspaper and is similar to that of 'The Sun's' design.

Opening paragraph(s)

A seaside fair was left devastated yesterday evening after a 3 year old boy fell to his death from a family ride. Joshua Tinsdale, was enjoying a weekend visit to the popular Southsea Fair with his family when the tragic events unfolded later that day.

It is believed Joshua joined by his two siblings took a ride on the fair's ferris wheel. It is then understood that Joshua not following the guidelines stood up in one of the carriages. Eyewitnesses say this is the moment Joshua lost balance and fell 60 foot to the ground below. A medical team responded to Joshua immediately but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Potential Headline.

Freak fall from ferris . Boy, 3 dies at Portsmouth Fair.

Potential Headline.

'Hell'ter skelter. Infant dies at Portsmouth fair.

Tasks to do by Monday 18th 2010

By Monday I needed to of completed the following:

• Write the headline story and title
• Produced some graphic work for the front cover ( Advertisement)

The Voice Logo Edit

I have been experimenting with my newspaper logo.

Advertisement for newspaper.

As Tabloids tend to have quite a few advertisements on the front page, I have produced several designs of adverts which I may include in my newspaper.

Newspaper layout examples

As I have chosen to produce a tabloid newspaper I have been looking at examples of tabloid newspaper front covers to see how they are generally laid out and what sort of content is included eg; images, advertisement, layout..

In addition I have also been looking at the headline titles and how they are written along with the small opening paragraph. By doing this it will help me out when I come to producing the front cover of 'The Voice'

I went down to Portsmouth to take photos of the harbour as one of the possible headlines of my paper maybe about a teenage boy rescuing his father from their sinking boat. Therefore this image would be relevant as part of the article as it is where the story occurred ( Portsmouth Harbour)

I took this photo at the fun fair where I live as the headline story for my newspaper maybe 'Freak accident at Fair as young boy is killed on ride'

Headline (main story)

Over the past week I have had to think about what the headline story of my newspaper will be. I have come up with the following suggestions:

• Euro millions lottery ticket winner
• Freak accident at Fair as young boy is killed on ride
• Mother murders her teenage son
• Teenage boy recuces father from sinking boat

The guardian is an example of a broadsheet newspaper unlike tabloid papers they contain formal and informative stories. In addition, broadsheet newspapers tend to be physically larger in size.

The Sun however is an example of a tabloid newspaper. A tabloid newspaper is generally physically smaller in size compared with a broadsheet and tends to focus on entertainment and generally less formal . Tabloids tend to emphasize or exaggerate sensational crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous and innuendos about the deeply personal lives of celebrities and sports stars.

4/10/10 summary

Up to this point I have researched into how certain newspapers design their front covers and what sort of content is included. In addition, I have found some examples of such newspaper covers and looked at these in more detail. Secondly I have thought up the name i would like to call my paper 'Voice.' and along with that I have chosen the font type (logo).

By next week I plan to experiment with photography in regards to what stories I will cover in my paper. With that I also intend come up with ideas about what the headline and stories will be.