Radio script

This is the script for my radio advert. I decided to emphasise the fact it is a local newspaper by having a 'posh' - well spoken person talking in the beginning, discussing typical things you would hear in a national newspaper. Then to contrast I had someone with a strong Liverpool accent butt in, which leads to a series of people talking about what they want from a local newspaper. At the end I decided to bring back the posh voice just as a bit of humour and also because it is easier to understand than the other voices, so it is required when advertising the actual name of the newspaper. I think I will have music and some sound effects added in after I have recorded the voice but I have not planned it as of yet. When I work with sound I like to just mess around with everything until I find something I like rather than sticking to a fixed plan.

Designing and justifying my adverts on the inside page

For my basic pinky coloured advert I took the idea from a newspaper I read at home. It was a small advert at the side of the page which filled roughly the same space as mine and was extremely simplistic yet effective. I chose to do a simple side banner advert as my page has 5 pictures on already and I thought adding any more to my adverts would be abit excessive. My orange PPI advert actually took a bit of research! I always see adverts on T.V and in newspapers talking about PPI compensation so I decided it would be logical to add in mine. I found out how to know if you have been mis sold PPI on this website:
http://www.which.co.uk/campaigns/personal-finance/the-ppi-campaign/mis-sold-ppi/
I basically took the information, put it into my own words and added it to my advert.

Pictures for my inside page

I spent a day walking around Maghull and taking pictures for my inside page. I have created all of my adverts and stories so all I need to do now is add my pictures and add some finishing details. My story involved a police station, a train station and a bridge, so naturally I took pictures of all of these locations. It was tricky getting pictures of the police station as when I took out my camera and started snapping a policeman came out and began to question me on what I was doing and asked if I was taking part in any illegal activities! After explaining it was for media coursework he was happy to let me take more pictures, although I had to stay at a distance. Once I had got all my pictures I remembered that I had another story to fill the bottom left of the page and noticed there was Santa just across the road, so I quickly ran over, had a quick chat and took his photo. That was my inside page done! The pictures of the two boys was captured in college a while before I started my inside page so I simply used them to add more substance to the story. As you can see I have more pictures than necessary, as I continued taking pictures in various locations across Maghull just in case I needed them in future, also I will probably not be using all of those pictures on my inside page. Only a few are necessary to make my story stand out and the rest will be filled with text.

Starting my poster

 For my poster I decided to use a loudspeaker to match with the name of the print 'Liverpool Voice'. Initially I wanted to use a bugle but after talking it through with my teacher and friends I decided it didn't make much sense. I managed to borrow a loudspeaker and take a few pictures until I found the one I wanted to use. I used a teacher in my picture as I have used teenagers in all of my other photoshoots, and since I want my newspaper to appeal to a wider audience it didn't seem logical to use another student. When the shoot was done I struggled to think of anything creative to do with it (since it is just my teacher standing near a wall with a loudspeaker) so I chose to cut out the background and turn him into a silhouette (which i guess defeats the point of using an older model!). I'm currently working on coming up with more ideas for my poster but I will definitey be using the bottom silhoutte picture in my final product. 

Inside page ideas

Today I looked inside a local newspaper to get some more ideas for my inside page layout. I was surprised to see that there was quite a wide variety of layouts on each page within the same newspaper, so it wasn't such a linear decision as I first thought. Some of the pages had a massive amount of text and little amount of pictures whilst some others had a lot of adverts and pictures with a minimal amount of text. After looking through all the pages I decided to follow a similar layout to the bottom picture, with the story in the top left corner of the page, related pictures surrounding it and a big space for adverts at the bottom. Unlike this layout I won't use the bottom half of the page primarily for adverts, but I may add another short story in the bottom right corner just because I think it will look more professional. A lot of people choose to follow the same layout as the second page or something similar so I'm happy to do something a little different that is to my own taste, yet still stick to a conventional newspaper layout.