Thursday, 25 November 2010

Spinnaker Tower News Logo

'The News' has a recognised logo on the masthead of a sailing boat, the boat reflects the maritime history of the city and is shown in a contrating red to the largely blue and black colour scheme of the newspaper. This link shows the logo on the top of the 'the News website'.

For my newspaper 'Spinnaker News' I will take a similar approach, using the simplified image and the turned red to  contrast well with the masthead.

The photo is taken from a photo of the Spinnaker tower and then I have edited the image in photoshop to give it the simplified look like the one on the news. The red, as dicussed in the 'colours in the news' post demonstrates a eyecatching appearance. This is my original photo I took to take my logo from.


The main masthead, including the newspaper name and logo, the date, price, and a possible slogan
 

Friday, 12 November 2010

The Masthead Design

Firstly, I need to think of a name for my Newspaper. I have chosen a few names such as;

Copnor Chronicle - Aliterateration use makes this title stand out the most

Spinnaker News - Using the 'south's' most iconic modern landmark makes the news seem modern

Portsmouth Press  - Use of aliteration again, and the wide area it covers gives it flexibility

Portsea Island News - The idea behind this on was to shorten it to PIN and have that as a recognisable name.

I feel that Copnor Chronicle is possibly the best name out of the three here because of the alliteration, but it's limiting the area of Copnor. The others cover a wider area, so I have designed all four mastheads to see which would look the best.

I have conducted a vote from my peers on the three masthead designs.


The opinion on this one is that the colour scheme is original and it looks the most 'proffesional'. However the 'Copnor' area is restricted and the logo doesn't demonstrate the area's points of interest.


 


This idea was the least favoured in the vote out of three, but the idea of using initialism of P.I.N was favoured by a few participants.


 
The Spinnaker News was considered the best out of the three I have chosen to work with, the use of the image and blue colour gives a modern look I was orgininally hoping to achieve.

Friday, 5 November 2010

Basic Layout


The Layout of my Newspaper.
<--- The masthead box, (includes title, logo, tagline, and news)



<--- Would include usually one advertisement


<--- The Main story and title go here


<--- Divided into 3 or so sections and has mix of news and adverts


<--- One Advert

<--- A very small snippet of news


<---Contains news and information



<---The inside page has Contents and Weather
and the main story of the paper












Alternative Layouts