Colours in 'The News'

Complimentary Colours



 Colours I am interested in using need to compliment well with one another, I am using a complimentary colour wheel to help choose my colour scheme. The News currently uses a number of shades of blue, and I am considering using the same. If I was to use blue then the comlimentary colour would be a red/orange. The red/orange would be appropriate as it was make certain elements of my newspaper stand out from the rest.

Also I must consider the economic cost of using colour print, newspapers often restrict their colours to the four (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black)

What is the 'Inverted Triangle'?

The inverted triangle is a metaphoric term coined by Journalists and it illustrates the significance of article content. See the inverted triangle to the right, as it shows the hierarchy of the content inside the article.

Dorset Echo Link

See below for the annotated article which highlights what stages of the inverted triangle it covers.

Human Interest

A Human interest story focuses on the human issues, such as a story of a childs battle with a life threatening disease and how they overcome it. The story is very emotionally charged and tries to get the audience to interact and become involved with the issue by making it seem they are following the story closely.

Stories such as this one concerning of a local soldier receiving a bravery award in 'The news' and this reflects the idea of human interest perfectly. Also in my previous post looking at locality the story of the pensioner graduating shows Human interest.

Human Interest stories are often considered to be very soft and manipulative, as they are often very emotionally charged.