Level 2 Print Media Production

Complete your analysis of a newspaper in the following way.  1. Open up a new blogpost called 'NEWSPAPER ANALYSIS - AN ADVERT'   Find an ad, preferably either a half-page, full-page or double-page ad. Again, take a shot of it and slot the image under the heading.  2.  Then tell me about the advert, again answering only the questions you think are relevant.   What’s the style of language? (Formal/chatty/serious/funny/young/old)?  What sort of  colours and fonts are predominant – why?  What kind of image features in the ad? Why? What is the images denotation and connotation?  How is the meaning created through the layout – why do you think things have been placed where they have? Would you have done things differently?  Does the ad actually appear close to an article that refers to what’s being advertised?  Does the ad seem targeted at the same audience that the newspaper has (working class for a tabloid newspaper, middle cl...

Continue your analysis of your newspaper in the following way. 1. Find a FEATURE article or LEAD STORY. This should take up either most or the whole of a page or better still  is a DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD. Try and find a feature/article about something that interest you, even vaguely, otherwise your analysis will just end up as a load of moaning about how boring you find it. 2. Open up a new blogpost called NEWSPAPER ANALYSIS - FEATURE ARTICLE Take a photo of your chosen feature/spread and put it into your blogpost under that heading. 3. Then perform a similar analysis of the feature as you did for the front cover. (a) Firstly, in a 2-d sense tell me about the LOOK of it. LOOK at it, don't read it in depth yet. How is it laid out? Is it Picture-dominated or text-dominated ? Is the headline font/typeface unique to that piece or used throughout the paper for headlines (sometimes headlines in gossip/sports sections can have different headline fonts than usual)? Does th...

Publisher part - DONE. Alleflippinlujah.  Now time to look at an individual newspaper according to the pictured criteria. Start this in the following way. As you can see you can ONLY GET A PASS for this criteria. The chances for merits/distinctions only start occuring when you start proposing/producing/creating your own idea for a magazine.  START THIS ANALYSIS PART AS FOLLOWS  1. OPEN UP A NEW POST. Call it 'Print Media - Newspaper Analysis - The Front Cover' 2. Take a picture of the front-cover of your newspaper and put it in your blogpost.  One of those unfortunate story/advert combinations that can happen. 3. Then, tell me about THE LOOK of the front page. Can you see a MASTHEAD ? Where is it? Is the page Picture-dominated or text-dominated? Is the headline font unique to that piece or used throughout the paper for headlines (sometimes headlines in gossip/sports sections can have different headline fonts than usual)? Do you think the page has...

Paperboys, circa 1900, New York City OK, so you've nearly finished the first criteria of the Print Media unit. You've told me about a Publisher , the products they bring out, the production process they go through to create their print products and who their target readership is, tabloid or broadsheet . We're nearly there. As you can see the final bit of this criteria is about how Print Media Companies get their products TO US (i.e how do they distribute them) and what organisations keep an eye on what Print Media Companies are doing (regulation). This bit should be quite quick to do (one session) and because you can only get a pass on Criteria 1 doesn't need to be exhaustively detailed (although if you want to, feel free). Complete this part as follows. 1. Open up a new post. Call it 'Print Media Production: Distribution & Regulators'.  Newsagents (or 'Newstand' as they were known) late 30s, NYC 2. Under a heading 'Distri...