A2 Media Production

In to the second year of my course I had had to complete designing a Newspaper, A webpage for my newspaper as well as a poster for my newspaper too. The programs I had been using were Adobe Photoshop which I was highly familiar with because of using it a lot in my foundation portfolio. I had also used Adobe In design which helped me create the template of my newspaper. It was my first time using Adobe In design but using online tutorials helped me with all the technical parts of the program. By looking at my finished product it shows how easily I adapted to these new programs over the past 2 years. Having a blank canvas on three fronts challenged me to extend the boundaries of my creativity. My newspaper doesn’t follow the normal colour scheme and font use. I dared to be different I made my masthead a golden yellow so it linked with the name of my newspaper The New Dawn. Many idea's were spawned from the name alone such as the sun rising or the rise of the local youths, but the one I chose for my masthead is stated above.
The normal colour scheme for a newspaper such as The Sun is the normal red top but I challenged that with my ingenuity and changed the layout to my standards of using yellow and black colour codes.
I had to create a local story for the community so whilst I was typing up the story I had created it as had went along and it came out interesting. I used my own image which linked too the story of me being an IT whizz kid. I then created adverts using Adobe photoshop CS2 which helped my newspaper look authentic. On the second page of my local newspaper I had included the weather forecast and a contents page which I found on many local newspapers.