Friday 3rd September

First media lesson back at the beginning of term, we ran through everything that had been planned and discusses over the summer holidays, and began our first ancillary task- Our website.

With the help of our class mate David Hewitt, we made the basic homepage for our website. He taught us how to use codes to creat text boxes, change font colour/ style/ size, how to resize boxes and insert images and position them.
Any other skills we needed (for example how to insert a scrolling text box) David was happy to show us how and made sure we knew how to do it for the future.

Sunday 19th August

Due to both project members having prior arrangements with family holidays and work etc, we were unable to continue with planning work until the beginning or term- Friday 3rd September.

Wednesday 11th August

- We have drawn out a couple of possible layout ideas for our website homepage, and hyperlinked pages that cast off from the main home screen.

- Discussed story headlines that would be relevant to news readers today, making sure not to duplicate stories that are currently in the papers.

- Writing mock articles to compare to existing published articles to make sure our material sounds genuine.

- Brainstorming a name for our local paper.

- Designing potential advertisments to have within the first overleaf page in the paper (adverts featured in most newspapers, 'Cash for Gold', Fast Food Outlets and Take Away Services, Car Garages and Second Hand Car Dealers)

Wednesday 4th August

Myself and Charlott discussed which ancillary tasks would be best to accompany our main piece on the overall project.

We weighed up the pro's and con's to doing a website or a radio advertisment, as at this point we have already agreed the first ancillary task would be a poster advertising the newspaper.
We came to the conclusion that a radio advert may come across in an amateur sounding way, as when we researched into the process of creating a radio advertisment, it requires a lot of time and professional skill to put together an advert worthy of being put on air.
On the other side of the discussion, we agreed that a website would work more towards our favour , as creating a website with hyperlinks is a difficult task, this gives us more to talk about in the exam with skills we have learnt through out the project.

Initial ideas for planning

Key elements to our newspaper

- Possible name for newspaper
- Researching into potential story lines
- looking through previously submitted ALevel assignments online from past years
- Compare local and national news paper layouts
- Possible images to include along side articles

Research and brainstorming is ongoing.