What we've learn't from our DECONSTRUCTIONS!

We've decided to summarise whats we've learnt so we know exactly what coconventions and ideologies we need to include in order to make our newspaper stand out and maintain a high readership.

What we identified and are therefore going to include in our newspaper:

Mastheads

• Name of our newspapers has to be something, interesting, different and informal that is going to persuade our audience to want to buy their own cop of weekly news

Bold Headings

• To ensure names of our articles stand out to readers and catch the attention also making them centralized to show there importance in relation to the article

Colours

• Consistent use of very bright colours to attract teenagers attention as they believe it is very important part of a new paper that would attract them to buy it. Also using a different background colour of the actual newspaper than the usual white and different colours of the font to keep it int resting and exciting.

Gutters

• To ensure our newspaper can be bent in the correct place and the keep the layout of the writing and picture very clear and separate from different topics.

Banners

• On top of main headlines to add extra information and make the article more readable and relate able to the article.

Picture

• Eye catching pictures to maintain teenager attention and pictures relating to issues they are interested in such as clubs, offers, gangs and drugs.


• Make sure there close ups to maintain that common convention of the main article pictures and make sure they stand out on the page
• Making sure we include captions to accompany the picture so audiences know what its about and the elation it has to the text

Advertisements

• Job advertisements to show them that we want to help those who want to find partime work


• Offers, such as five pound of at WHSmiths which will encourage them to buy correct equipment to help them in their learning


• University or college open day advertisement to interest and inform those who may want to go into higher education

Page Numbers

• So readers know exactly what page there on or if they like the sound of an article in the contents sub section and want to find it they won't have a problem.

Website address and advertisement of our website

• Influences teenagers to take the step into going online to our newspaper website to find out about latest gossip instead of going to general social networking sites and magazine sites.


• Give them the opportunity to get in contact and give us feedback our what they have read

Date

• So reader know they have brought the latest issues so they know there getting the latest news

Exciting topics

• Talk about ideologies such as sex, drugs and partying, celebrity gossip, hair, fashion, sport and so on which they can relate to and can look forward to reading each week.

Columns and sub sections

• Making sure our articles are written in columns as it another convention that all newspapers have and making sure everything is in section according to category

Puff

• Which are colourful and stand out to attract our audience inside the newspapers

Slogans

• statements and catchphrases to entertain readers and promote the newspaper

Lead and secondary stories

• the main article that our newspaper is going to be based around that will interest readers
• other important article that will be on the same page of the lead story to keep the newspaper interesting

Beginning, middle and an end

• making sure our article include these elements so that our stories make sense to readers and also to provide reader with as much detail as possible