a level course work nea

Statement of Intent

For my production I am going to create a newspaper that will be based on various style models and follow a sleek and modern design that should be easy and enjoyable to please its target audience. The story that the production is going to follow will be based on a popular world issue of climate change. I will also create 3 posters that will relate to the newspaper production.

I will investigate what it takes to produce a professional newspaper and how they are set up to entice readers. I will research climate change to generate a believable and respectable report for the content of the newspaper product.

The newspaper’s audience are people of all ages living in the region who are interested in national and international news stories as well as stories relating specifically to the local area. I am going to replicate modern newspapers and their structure and make a newspaper named ‘Jersey National Report’ shorted into an acronym of just ‘J’ to sit alongside the side of the paper. This anchor will be dominant and professional.

In evaluation, I know that current battles for climate change is an ongoing issue globally as well as locally in Jersey and specifically in the UK, this will make it broader and easier to generate information for my newspaper and will be relevant. This will also make it easier to generate an original photo due to the very broad nature of the subject. I’m going to research current issues on climate change and how locally, climate change is affecting Jersey, such as the high levels of lung cancer increasing due to the much larger volumes of granite in Jersey compared to the UK. I may take a photo of the sea wall, beach or just the general landscape, then explaining how there has been weather change due to the nature of climate change. I might also be able to discuss ideas of theorist Noam Chomsky and how current reports of climate change may not be accurate and is creating an ideological world which support money making motives. The newspaper will help enable political discussion and civic involvement. The information provided in the newspaper may also be mostly fictional but will contain stats that will be realistic to real world issues. The newspaper may also target false hegemony and ideologies as a tool to prove that the issue is undervalued.

The flyers will raise awareness of climate change and will be distributed to students in sixth forms and colleges, meaning it will be a target audience of students and younger audiences, perhaps being different to the newspaper which has an intent to appeal to all ages as an intent for freedom of information on important world issues.

In terms of layout and design, I am going to follow the style model of our CSP (The i). This has a main image (half page) with two ‘plugs’ or ‘ears’ which are stories that are to be continued later into the paper, these are not to be as relevant as the main page but will maintain its contemporary and stylish look. I may also include a dominant and stylish masthead that will maintain the professional look of the paper. I will also continue to maintain a professional look to the rest of the paper by keeping a house style of my choosing and not use too many different fonts or styles to keep this look.

I will create a newspaper front cover using Adobe InDesign as well as a double page spread that continues the story that features local news for Jersey that also relates to national and international – world – issues. I may also use photoshop to create certain detailed elements that will relate to the style of the newspaper cover.