Steps of progress

What Process I took...

These are image and screen shots of me demonstrating the basic steps of creating the newspaper 'Tyldesley Today'. However, I did alot of different changes along the way and documenting them all would be too long, so, these screen shots are the showing how I progressed through each page after I had finished. Along the way, I have had to create a variety of improvements and changes that I wouldn't have originally thought of or planned.

 After I revised my story (look at the previous post to see where I started) I created a template using Microsoft Publisher margins and adjusted them until I felt that there was a balance between the amount of text and the images.

I started to present my work by using the masthead as a guideline - as it is the most important feature of the newspaper, I placed this on the page where I felt that it would be the most commanding and I started to place the rest of the text around it, supporting it. The adverts were pretty straight forward as I wanted them presented in a uniformed and straight position. I put the picture of the 'criminal' almost in the middle as I wanted it to attract the eye to the the main story. 

 I then proceeded to place additional amounts of texts and images within the margin boundaries. I decided to position the second image on the opposite side of the page for aesthetics, but also for the idea that the two people shown have 2 completely different and opposite cultures,judgements and ideas. At this stage, I adjusted some of the text of the info-graphics and the slogan from 'the TYPE to believe in..' to 'Local News You Can Believe In...' as I felt that was more easy to relate to in the community. 

 This is the finished front cover page.I put the column with a pale grey background as I wanted to break-up the page a little bit and section it into readable chunks...

I started on the second page in a similar way to starting the first page - by creating the margins and using it as a template. However, I wanted there to be a slight difference in the format from the first page, so I made the main images uniformed and straight and the adverts of different scaling, unlike the features on the front page.

This was the finished result of the second page and it basically just spell-checked it and proof-read it several times.