This is a video explaining the difference between the online versions of a newspaper and a paper version.
Galtung and Ruge - News Values
Galtung and Ruge talk about different terms for news values and they can be applied to news articles. These terms are:
Clay Shirky - End of Audience
Shirky's Quotes:
“The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with.More media always means more arguing.”
Newspaper front cover and Evaluation
1) What was the task you were given and who was your target audience?
2) What research did you undertake and what did you find were some of the typical conventions of a Daily Mail front cover - layout, types of stories, fonts
3) Which Daily Mail cover was your main source? What are your observations from this source?
4) Which areas were most challenging?
5) What was your initial feedback? What did others say about your production? How successful was do you think it is?
6) Identify what went well and with hindsight what you do to improve/do differently.
7) In the exam, you will be analysing newspaper front covers. In producing this cover, are there any areas that you hadn't noticed before? What have you learnt from completing this task?
1. The task that I received was to recreate a newspaper front cover with a story about Meghan Markle. The target audience was the traditional audience of the daily mail which is mostly the older generations and people of ABC1 situations.
2. The research that I undertook was to look at the typical codes and conventions of the daily mail and to analysis other daily mail front covers to allow myself to get a close representation of what the front cover should look like. For the layout, I found out that it should be Title to the advertisement and then to multiple articles next to each other. For the type of stories, I found out that the usual daily mail audience prefers political conversations and royalist ideas so these are what I went for with a twist on the world cup that's coming up. And also the fonts I researched what fonts are the best to use and the one I used represented the correct font in the best way.
3. I chose a daily mail front cover about taxes and royals which is close to what my articles are about. The observations I took from the source are how the front cover should be set out and how the advertisement should look to make the front cover as close to the real one as possible. Also, both pictures are at the same place and are similar in theme.
4. The most challenging areas were making sure the text was the right size and that it fit each line which made problems such as having to change words and even making a new theme. Also, the other big problem was the resolution of some photos and some work had to be scrapped too and higher resolution photos took their place.
5. Others said that the front cover was very good and realistic but also it needed to have a much bigger font for my long paragraphs and spacing could have been better. I think that the front cover went well and looks quite similar but different fonts and more time took on the sizes could have made it look even better.
6. What went well on my front cover was the advertisement as it looks quite professional and is the best thing on my front cover. Also in hindsight, I could have downloaded a more professional font that looked closer to the real font than the one I chose. Also, I would swap the two articles as I think I could have had a better picture for Brexit and a more detailed article for the Meghan Markle story.
7. What I learnt about the daily mail from doing this task was what the daily mail consider to be important news and how the daily mail set out a newspaper. And finally I learnt how to properly use photoshop.
Newspaper and Politics
Right wing-
Conservatives.
UKIP
(UK Independence Party), BNP (British National Party).
Traditional
Values – Love of the past (Royals, Veterans, etc.)
“Survival
of the fittest” – we should be able to keep the money we earn, because we
deserve it.
Don’t
believe in benefits/welfare for all.
Do
not want the NHS, or state schools, -> Privatisation.
Tied
to Christian beliefs – against gay marriage some are anti-abortion, etc.,
traditional views about women.
PRO
BREXIT – anti-immigration.
Not
worried about environment.
Pro
nuclear weapons.
Left wing-
Guardian,
Mirror.
Optimist
– visionaries of the future (forward looking).
Pro-Europe,
pro-immigration, pro-multiculturalism.
‘Welfare
state’ – Benefits, ‘’for the many, not the few’’.
Higher
taxes – especially the rich.
Looking
for more equality.
‘Idealist’.
Fight
for women’s rights, gay rights, etc.
Pro-nationalisation.
Very
concerned with the environment.
Owen
Jones “Largely run by a very small group of very right-wing media moguls who
defend the status quo of which they are part. If you are on the left and want
to change society, the media will always come and get you”.
Newspaper Representation about the London Riots
2. We are being given the stereotypical view of a young British teenager as it is what people think a British thug-like teenager would look like, this view is a grey tracksuit, small satchel bag and an overconfident walk.
3. This representation is being constructed by the language as it is stating the actions of the rioters as "anarchy" and not looking into the real meaning behind the riots, also it talks about the riots spreading and behind the man is a fire which is spreading which shows a high level of juxtaposition. Also, the camera angle makes him look powerful as it is a low angle and makes him look like he thinks he is better than everyone else. Also, the colours are very bland for him showing that he fits in and is the same as every thug.
4. The article is represented by the text in many ways. This includes reasons such as how the size of the word 'Anarchy' is the main focus of the article as it is the biggest word and is what people see first when they pick up the newspaper. Also, the tone of the text is short sentences to give a lot of information in a quick time which allows people to find out what is happening without reading a lot about it, this also shows how they can make quick non-detailed sentences that allow people to make their own assumptions about the stereotype. Also, the words 'Hit' and 'Spread' dramatise the riots and make it sound like young people ruining the country. Also, the lack of detail about the reason for the riots make the riots sound worse than they are.
5. This representation fits with the institutional codes and conventions of the Sun and how they represent news and how they cater to their audience of middle-class people which contrasts to the lower class people that they try to show as the only people in the riots. Also, it says about it being the 'Third day' so the article interests the reader as they want to keep up to date on the situation. Also since the newspaper is a tabloid they dramatised the article and made the stereotypical youth of Britain to be thugs and aggressive.
Newspaper key terms
Newspaper Analysis Homework
Language
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Content
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Style
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Values and Attitudes
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Photographs
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Headlines
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What examples of language stand out. Calculate the average number of words per sentence.
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What is included or missed out on the story? Can you explain this?
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Is the article chatty or formal? Serious or funny? How long are the sentences?
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Is there any Bias? |
Which shots have been chosen and why? How have they been edited?
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What kind of headline is it? What techniques are used?
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The use of short to the point bullet points stands out as it allows information to be found quick and easy for people who want to find out about his death without wading through a lot of unnecessary details. The average number of words per a sentence is 14 which shows how all the sentences are simple sentences.
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The story includes a lot of information on his death and people’s reactions to this fact which shows people in mourning and how the world has woken up to this tragedy. The article misses out information about his life so people who did not know him would not understand the importance of him.
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The article uses formal language and serious language to show that someone died and to respect his death, the sentences are short and to the point as people who are shocked by the news will want quick and easy to understand information.
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The article at times shows him as a regular drug user which then seems to show him as a bad example for this and showing that he is living a ‘’pop-stars’’ lifestyle. The article is also trying to insinuate that he killed himself and not show much evidence why he was famous and why he would want to be alive.
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Photographs have been chosen of him looking good and powerful to show how much he will be missed and how he made an impact on his job. Other photographs have been taken and have been shown as blurred to show how quick Bella Thorne took to social media to mourn Lil Peep’s death.
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The headline is less about his death but more about how Bella Thorne is dealing with his death which takes away from the fact that he is dead and more on drawing attention to Bella Thorne. The techniques used for the headline was a quote so the newspaper could not be sued for getting the information wrong as not enough information has come out about him yet.
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Article about Lil Peep- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5088059/Lil-Peep-21-dies-reputed-drug-overdose.html
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