Creating a colour theme

After coming to a decision of colour behind my title, I decide to use this as my newspaper colour scheme. Buy having this constant theme I will be able to use this for other boxes, and font, to keep a constant  recognizable colour. As you can see from this image, the word Portsmouth above, containing additional inside news, I have made the colour the same as my "theme". - By using the swatches tool and gathering details for the specific, Red - Green - Blue, I was able to use this to ensure the exact same colour to be used throughout newspaper.

Creating my front cover

Now using my flat plan as a basis template for the production of my newspaper. I have ensured that it looks neat and professional by using columns and margins to correct sizes and angles of that which a professional newspaper follows. By doing this I am following newspaper convention, with a correct layout.  

To ensure that my main image can be more prominent, I have used 4 columns, instead of 3. Making other front cover newspaper additions such as; competitions, adverts and writing smaller and the main image larger will connect to my target audience more efficiently. Following this tabloid like role, my audience will be more attractive to a large image and headline rather then more writing.  

Making the newspaper front cover look even more neat, I have lined up all the information and image layout along side the margins and columns.

I showed this to members of my class and members of southdowns college  to gain an insight into what I need to include and what I shouldn't include. This audience feed back will help me into creating my newspaper.

extra addition images for my newspaper

Here are some pictures I took which I could use for advertisement, competition and 'whats inside stories' - From vague pictures like these I will be able to create a local story, which my target audience in the proximity of Portsmouth could relate too.

Page two flat plan

Here is my flat plan for page two my my newspaper, consisting of all page two elements such as; weather, whats inside and a main story. I gathered my knowledge of this through my local newspaper 'The News' and how their layout could relate to my page two layout. Ensuring their is a definite line between each news stories and imagery

Images to use for newspaper

After deep discussion with my peers and teacher, I have came to a final conclusion of what images I will use for my newspaper.
These images providing positive connotations and proximity included for the local people of Portsmouth.

All the images below have been taken with my phone, so the quality of my images will not be to a high standard. I will include both phone and Digital camera images.

RyanMedia's photostream

RyanMedia's photostream on Flickr.

Images I have taken which I feel would be suitable for my newspaper - these decisions were made when discussing through the images with my teacher and peers of what would be more suitable for my newspaper. From here I will Narrow down the images to find a selected few of what i'll use.

Page two reseach

After gaining a greater understanding for the first front cover of the page, I decided to look through local newpapers' page 2. This consisted of a new story, weather and also the additional advert which could be in relation to the main story. By understanding how local newspapers create and design their page two layout, I will be able to incorporate this into my newspaper. I will now need to construct a flat plan and gather imagery to move forward toward the production of my newspaper.