My premium plan, tasks and analysis

This tabloid newspaper I decided to use attracts a particular audience such as the working class from the ages 18 to 45, usually the ‘less educated’. They do this by using big and more images with less writing and are more informal, less political and fill their newspapers with advertisements. On the other hand, broadsheet newspapers such as ‘The Times’ are more formal and usually read by the ‘higher classed’ and are more political as they use less images and more writing.

The image I used in my piece of work, both, police and rioters are being represented but mostly rioters trouble making. My image is taken from behind the police guards fighting for protection with their backs facing towards us. This symbolizes the fact that we have the police protecting us and we are helping them by standing behind them (facing the rioters) and also that we are against the rioters causing so much havoc. The reason why only police and rioters are being represented on my front cover is because they are both the main theme of the subject. In a moment like this, this is what the society wants to read about.

The representation in this newspaper is disapproving youths negatively as seen in the picture. The headline also gives readers a sense of disturbance as people are already frustrated and mostly do agree to the headline ‘fed up feds’ (Fed up police). This is also an alliteration which is catchy. The newspaper sun tends to use slang and informal language in their newspapers, so I used the term ‘feds’ which most young people/adults use instead of police.

The ideology in the newspaper refers to the way in which people think about the world and their ideal concept of how to think about the world. The ideology in my newspaper is to be blaming the rioters, representing youths as criminals.

I also used red bullet points to go with the newspaper logo, as it is red and makes it blend in the newspaper.

The subheading ‘third threat of terror’ is an alliteration and is catchy which will then draw the reader’s attention and will hopefully make them purchase the newspaper. 

                                                      Plan of Premium task

A plan of my premium task.

My premium task was to create a school magazine for my sixth-form centre. I decided do use creative colours but at the same time make my magazine look mature. The tone of my magazine is enjoyable and theses colours and the logo represent it as they blend in very well which would attract sixth-form students. I decided to us a powerful headline and call it (Success ‘R-US’) the first thing you see on the page. This is very effective as I used ‘R-US’ from the slogan ‘Toys R-US’. I used this because I believed it was very attention-grabbing, especially in a bold black font. I decided to us a formal and simple name for my magazine and name it ‘News at Negus’. I did this in a blue font to match the blue arrow from the logo and also every arrow in the logo has a matching line used to decorate the setting of the magazine. Right above the page, I used the colours red and a dark blue to separate the school’s name and the school motto. This is done for each bit to stand out, and hopefully be remembered. I’ve used the masthead ‘79% A*-C 2011 GCSE Results’ as the highlight of the story, as ‘Success R-Us’ could mean success in anything. My masthead is very effective as its shows shocking results. This is commanding to students as this is what they want to read, the whole reason they are at the sixth-form, to study and succeed. Another masthead used ‘If I got into oxford so can you’ is something else students would want to read about; as it’s interesting as they may know that person or could be a class mate. I’ve used a mid shot and a group shot image on my page as images are not boring and are one of the first things you look at first. My mid-shot image was taken next to the sixth-form mini bus as you can see the letters N and E, spelling Negus. The students would know this as they would have seen the van parked in the school. My articles are written in columns rather than an essay type. This is done for it to not look dragging and effortless.