Assignment 1 Research Techniques- Unit 3

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Study Week Task

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News Values

Negative- We get Curious
Protimity- More important closer to us
Recency- If theres a story unfolding its good
Currency-
Contiunuity-
Unique-
Simplicity-
Personality-
Predictability- We expect it
Elite- Stories involving well known people
Exclusivity- very rare to have
Impact/ Size- How many people are effected?

Research on newpapers political view

The Sun

Political slant: During Thatcher's reign, the tabloid openly supported the Conservatives but when New Labour came around, they switched sides supporting them at the 1997, 2001 and 2005 elections. Now they're back to the Tories.

Known to be more open about their political influences, they often run front page stories bragging about their influence in the victories (stating for instance that they "won it" for John Major in 1992). The Sun, like The Times, is owned by Rupert Murdoch who is said to greatly influence the political outlook of his media publications.

The Daily Telegraph  


Political slant: Given that it has the nickname "The Torygraph", it's a safe bet to say that it tends to sway towards Conservative policies. Even when Labour was incredibly popular, the Telegraph remained loyal to Tories. 

In its genesis, the Telegraph was overtly liberal. Recently it has been critical of Brown and Labour in general, but still hasn't been devoted to David Cameron's ideas either 

The Independent

Political slant: The Independent does not tend to sway to any one party, hence its name. They tend to openly debate, instead of support, political initiatives, but they operate more in centre-left than they do right - more Liberal than either Labour or Tory. The Independent was openly critical of the Iraq war.

In a speech on June 12 2007 Tony Blair called The Independent a "viewspaper", saying it "was started as an antidote to the idea of journalism as views not news. That was why it was called The Independent. Today it is avowedly a viewspaper not merely a newspaper".

The Daily Star   


The Star isn't the most political of publications – it has once printed a window sticker stating "No poli-tits! This house is a candidate-free zone!". Other instances it has stated that it would be wise to cast a vote, regardless of which party the reader chooses.   

The tabloid has reported about Brown's demise in recent times. Thursday October 1 2009 saw The Star ask "Is this strange, tetchy, shifty, gloomy, scheming oddball the man Britain really wants in No 10?". While it is expected that they support David Cameron, they seldom sing his praises either.  

Indesign Practice with magazine articles- page layout

For this work I learnt, how to create the colour in the background, and edit the text to make it look more eye grabbing.

I used the rectangle box to create a box for the background and used the gradient tool to create the colour. I used my swatches to choose the colour and dragged it into the gradient box. As for the title, I used a normal text tool and just changed the font and added a back shadow and bevel and emboss.

Research Techniques

Journalism Research

1:When was the first daily newspaper published in England?

The first and most significant development of the new century was the publication of the first English daily newspaper, the Daily Courant, which began on 11 March 1702. The 18th century was a period of innovation and evolution for newspapers.

2: Why do you think there was a small circulation of readers at this time?

Not many people in this time went to school, as you would have had to come from a wealthy background. Therefore, not many people were educated enough to read the newspapers or afford them.

3: Why did newspapers become more popular in the 19^th Century?

The beginning of the 19^th century there wasn’t much technology apart from radio and tvs . This means if people wanted to know the recent news they would have to buy the newspapers.

4: Why were they so powerful at the beginning of the 19^th Century?

5: What changed in the 20^th Century to affect the power of the newspapers?

6: How do you think newspapers have had to overcome these changes?

Indesign- Text and Image placement

In this one,  I learnt how to place a text and image. I used the text box to edit the writing, either the size, the pace between lines or the space between words. With the images I learnt how to place the box and place the images into the box and fitting it to the content.

Indesign- Shapes and Text

On Indesign, we edited the shapes into creating anything we wanted. On the lines of them shapes I learnt how to put on text.

Indesign- Playing with shapes

On Indesign I learnt how to create different shapes and how to edit them. I also learnt how to create a star from the polygon tool. Paul showed us how to colour it in to give it more effect.

Indesign- Writing my name

On Indesign, I used the pen icon to write my name. I learnt how to use it and how to curve the line. In my opinion I struggled a bit and feel I need a bit more practice.