Recording My Radio Advertisement

Today I began to record my radio advertisement in the recording studio at my college. One of my teachers helped me use the "LogicPro" software as I had never used it before.

We began by listening to the sound effects which I would like to add to the radio advertisement to make it seem more interesting and exciting. I then began to record my lines, I repeated each line three times so we were able to choose which one sounded best rather only recording it once. Once we chose this we added the other sound effects into the recording. My class mate Gabriel helped me by recording his voice for the other person in the conversation, we did the same method of recording the lines three times using different tones to see which one worked best. The next stage is to neaten up all the recordings to make it sound as exciting and proffesional as possible.

Editing Articles For My Newspaper

After reading though my articles for my local newspaper, I felt I could add some humour and more exctiement to them. Here are the before and after articles for my second page:

james arthur comes to town - James Arthur, the 2012 X Factor 

winner, will be visting the town hall   next month to sing for the patients of Mount     Vernon hospital and speak to the patients individually. The hospital was extatic to here the news of the star coming as it was a complete suprise. James chose the Mount Vernon hospital in paticular to visit, as he discovered how involved the hospital are in helping patients with

Parkinsons disease, which is something he finds very close to his heart.  Read Page7 to find out more. 

rumours of a new nightclub - The council are debating whether to open a new night club in town where the old club Gate Grasher used to be. They feel they need to bring something more

 alternative and different from the other clubs in the area. Read Page 14 to read more.

help needed for the carnival - The Harrow Youth League are in desperate need of volunteers for the 

Carnival coming up this Summer. They are looking for young people from the age of 15-20 to help bring some ideas to the table about what they can have at the 

carnival. Food? Entertainment? Music? It’s all down to the HA 6 locals what they want!

new chinese buffet - A new chinese restraunt and buffet, “Tao Peking” has been opened on the 

corner of Eastcote highstreet, Leighton Avenue. Their special meal  of the all you can eat buffet for only £5 allready seems to be popular with teenagers. Read P. 20 for a review.


After:

X-Factor winner James Arthur is to visit Mt. Vernon Hospital next month. He will be performing his latest single as well as meeting patients in the Parkinson ward. The hospital was ecstatic to hear the news of the star coming as it came as a complete surprise. James has a strong interest in Parkinson disease and had heard of the great work that Mt. Vernon had been doing. ‘To find a hospital with such dedication to this awful disease is inspiring’ the crooner said.

Rumours that a new nightclub, Reflex, is applying for a licence from the council have been confirmed. The license is expected to be granted in the next couple of weeks. Enthusiastic Owners Zerminay Shah and Robbie Judkins said “its bangra meets metal, its hip hop meets dub step. We want to offer everything!’ Located in the newly developed ‘carb strip’ Reflex is to have a complete make over if licensing is granted. ‘We want a place that young people can call their own’ says owners Shah and Judkins. Find out what the club will look like.

Harrow youth has announced its new annual carnival after fighting the council for some time since the awful events of 2008 when the annual shindig was stopped. Team Captain Gabriel Tomatoes is looking for volunteers that can help out from the 25^th to th 28^th. ‘We need as many volunteers as possible so that we can create the same atmosphere as the Olympics. That’s my goal’ said the emphatic organiser. See inside for full details of what you can do.

A new Chinese restaurant and buffet Tao Peking has been opened on the corner of Eastcote high street on Leighton Avenue. Its offering of Sichuan as well as  Indo-Chinese fare (curries to you an me) is sure to appeal to the cosmopolitan Eastcote dweller. Their lunchtime all you can eat special is only £5 and already seems to be pulling in the hungry harrovians. Read P. 21 for a full review.

I think my articles which I have re-written will appeal much more to a young audience than my previous ones

Creating A Poster For My Local Newspaper

I am using Photoshop to create my poster. I uploaded the picture and then downloaded a font which I thought seemed tattoo like and typed it onto her knuckles.










I felt the pink background of the image did not suit the newspaper colours. I changed it to a red background and then added green text, therefore my audience will be able to associate the colours of my newspaper with the colours of the poster.

Creating Local Newspaper Poster

Here are the pictures I took for my poster:

This is the image I have chosen for my final poster as I feel this once seems to stand out the most from the others.

Process Of Creating My Newspaper

After printing my newspaper to see how it would look on A3, I noticed many changes I need to make. Such as certain areas having to much space which should be filled with text or pictures. Another change I needed to make was the size of the font which was far to big when I printed it, the original size was 12 which I have now put down to 8, therefore I needed to add more text to fill the articles. I have also changed the font for the masthead, font for sub-articles on the second page.
I am so far pleased with my front cover and second page of the local newspaper, I think it would be something which would appeal to teenagers and young people. I am going to do a survey for young people to ask them whether they like my newspaper and most importantly, whether it would appeal to them and also what changes I could make.

Local Newspaper Poster Idea

I began my research into local newspaper poster ideas by looking at previous local newspaper posters which students had done, and also researching others. The most important fact I noticed is to attract and appeal to your target audience. As my target audience is young people, I felt I needed to come up with something more modern and alternative than standard newspaper posters which would appeal to a younger audience. I came up with the idea of taking pictures of someone with there fist pointing towards the camera in focus, with the person blurred in the background and editing it on photoshop to look as if they have "HA6" tattoed on there knuckles, which is a popular and common area young people get tatooed these days.

I began by going out and taking pictures of a friend of mine. I originally planned to use my digital SLR camera which would take much more clearer images, but when coming to taking them the battery unforunately ran out. Instead I used a camera phone to create a draft poster of what I would like it to be like.

Here are the images I have taken to create a draft poster for my local newspaper:

Creating A Newspaper Publisher Logo

Here are some newspaper publisher logo ideas which I made on Photoshop. From my research of local newspapers I have noticed newspaper publishing logos seem to be quite simple.



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I feel the best newspaper logo would be number 1 as it seems the most bold and striking, I don't think the other logos will suit the look of the newspaper as much.


                                                                                

My final decision for a newspaper publishing logo which I will place in the top left hand corner of my newspaper.