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.

During my 2 years of completing my Media Studies course from the foundation portfolio to the advanced portfolio the use of Adobe programmes such as Audition, Photoshop and Indesign has been the foundation to creating both portfolios.
The use of digital technology had a major impact on both products I had created from scratch. The programmes that I had required to create my products were ones that I had not encountered before except for Adobe Photoshop which I had a vague idea of how to use it.
My foundation portfolio I had to create was a 5 minute radio jingle using Adobe Audition. This was the first time I heard and used Audition. The pre – liminary task had helped me familiarise myself with the functionality of the program I had to base my task on. Adobe Audition was the foundation for completing my task to a high standard. From week to week I had learnt more about Adobe Audition that I didn’t know about such as the unlimited undoing tool which helped me immeasurably as I had to correct my mistakes from time to time.
The age of new media such as the handheld recording devices helped me with my portfolio. I went on the streets looking for the local people’s opinion on the stabbings that occurred in Brent. The data that was stored on the convenient portable device had been lost, that was one disadvantage of the media device. The loss of data had forced me to repeat the task again on the device which was quite simple. After which I was able to easily transfer the recordings by a USB cable to the computer I was using.
Whilst the recordings weren’t as I had wanted so with Adobe Audition’s capability I had edited the recordings by panning, cutting and levelling out the volume. Many sounds I had used were downloaded from a free source (www.soundsnap.com) so again digital technology aided me with my task, as well as planning of the script was typed up on Microsoft Word. So overall the use of all these programs have helped me majorly as it was a cornerstone of my foundation portfolio without it none of this would have been possible.

This is the 2nd page to my website which shows my full story. It follows the same convention as my 1st page.

This is my final website to go with my tripartite system of the poster an the newspaper. I have included a hyperlink to a second page which shows a full story. whereas on my first page I have a glimpse on the article which follows traditional newspaper value such as The Sun and The Guardian.

This on the right shows my poster i had created from Adobe Photoshop advertising my newspaper it shows the same theme of the yellow colour throughout the website,poster and newspaper. This is the 2nd draft of my poster. Above was my final choice I had decided to enlarge the title to make it stand out to passerbys.

This is the second page of my newspaper. It includes the weather and the contenets of the newspaper it continues the story from the 1st page to the 2nd page.

To the left is my final front cover of my newspaper which I had completed with Adobe Indesign.