Time Plan

Research
September - October
- looking at different newspaper stories
- colours schemes of newspapers
- prices of small, local town/village newspapers compared with national newspapers
- if there were any newspaper posters and their layouts
- different newspaper websites - the features and pages they included
- looked at the mastheads of different newspapers (local and national) to see how they were laid out
- researched and looked at different fonts to see which would look best as a font for my newspaper
- Questionnaire about what people expect of a local town/village newspaper
- looked at different newspaper from the local areas, for example the Halstead Gazette and the Suffolk Free Press to see the kinds of stories they included, colour schemes and prices
- asked different age groups what they thought the typical conventions of a newspaper were

Creating the Products
November - December
- took different pictures of places in my village e.g. the church, lake, village shop to be able to include them in my products I was going to make
- started to make the website first as this task would take the longest to complete
- during making the website, I started making the poster as this was a short task and wouldn't take very long so I could complete this while making the website
- made the actual newspaper last as this was the main task and I would then be able to take the stories and pictures I had included on the poster and on my website in my newspaper so they would all link together

Evaluation
January - February
- I started with the question 'How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?' I did this first as I did this as a PowerPoint presentation and these are quite easy to make and I also found it wouldn't take me long to complete this task as I only had to list the programmes and technologies I used along with how they helped me in creating, planning, researching and evaluating.
- The next question i did for the evaulation was 'In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?' I did this question next as I decided I would do this as a collage/moodboard of pictures as to which parts of my newspaper use, challenge or develop the conventions of real newspapers already
- The next question I completed for the evaluation was 'How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?' I did this next by linking all the pictures together with arrows to show that they all link together and then explained the features which linked them together
- The last question I completed was 'What have you learned from your audience feedback?' For this, I took the people I asked at the beginning what they thought the typical conventions of a newspaper were and asked them again if they thought my newspaper used, developed or challenged the conventions of newspapers already and why.