My Masthead Ideas

I took the ideas for my masthead from all the other ones I had looked at, on the local newspapers and the national newspapers too. I wanted to include the date and the price as these are the main items people would look at when buying a newspaper. I decided to include the newspaper's website address in the masthead but instead of having it included in the bar with the price and date, I decided to put it above this so it was in a row of it's own.

Draft Mastheads

This is the first draft of my masthead. I decided to use all black font for all of the writing and use a font that was similar to the title font for the small writing as it needed to look the same but I didn't want to use the main font all the way through the newspaper. From the start I have put the website address in it's own row above the main bar for the price and date as it looked better. I have also decided to put the date and price at opposite ends of the main bar so they are not crammed in to the middle and it is easy to read. I did try to put the website in to the main bar with the date and price but it would not fit and this is another reason I have put it by itself above the main bar. If I made the font smaller for the website address, it would be too small toread so people wouldn't be able to use it. However, once I had made it in to a bigger font and put it above the date and price, I found it looked better than in the row with the date and price.

Final Masthead

This is my final masthead design. I chose to have the date and price in the bar in white and have the barn filled in black as it made the date and price stand out more from everything else. Also the bar looked a bit simple and plain without it filled in black so decided to fill in in. It also goes with the stereotypical colours of a newspaper being black and white. I have left the website address above this bar as it still looks better here but I have not filled in the bar with black as I think this looks better as it makes this stand out as it is above the black bar so it makes it stand out.