I have began to lay out the main image and text for the main story of the second page. I have also began creating a strip at the top which informs the reader of what other stories feature in the paper.

I am now begining to design the second page of my newspaper, page two. This is proving difficult as; I am finding it hard to create a similar theme that matches with the front page, while still keeping a variation in colour and design to make the paper look interesting.

I have began creating a strip that uses pictures that people have taken to try and make the newspaper more personal to the people who read the local newspaper, as it gives them a chance to send in there own images. It is also at this point that I have began to think about colour schemes and how to keep a constant theme throughout the paper, I am creating variations of all the colours that I use to keep a similar colour scheme running througout the paper, I will also use these colours and this method when I create the website.

I have now completed the advert at the botttom of the page, I had to compromise as I could not acghieve the effect that i wanted. However, I think this works just as well, I created this effect by overlaying different coloured shapes and using strokes to outline the edges. I also used images of technological devices that I took in the classroom using a white piece of paper as a background so it could be easily cut out on photoshop. I have also made a logo using a photo I took of a rolled up piece of paper and appling a black and white stamp printing effect in photoshop.

I have began to try and make an advert at the bottom of the page, but through limitations of the program and skills, it became very diifcult to achieve the effect I wanted. I am using big bold tex (Story 1) to try and get an impression of what the title may look like once I have written the story. I have also now set up the margins around the page to that of the same of an example newspaper, (using The News as a template). This took a considerable amount of time as they are all different widths.

For my next draft of the front cover, I have used one of the images that I took. This image uses the idea of human interest, as it focuses on a person. I have also rearranged the layout, to conform to generic local newspaper conventions and imrove the overall look of my front cover.

These are a selection of a few of the images I took to use on the newspaper, poster and website.