For my newspaper NEA, I am going to produce a front cover of a regional newspaper relating to Jersey, with the main front article being focused around the dramatically increased fuel prices as of late. It will be aimed at a very broad audience, as a lot of the people who will be reading the newspaper in Jersey will drive or be affected in some way by the fuel prices, taking a very big hit on their disposable income.
I will be following a style model of one of our main CSPs, the Daily Mail. In this CSP the page has a main image taking up around half of the page, with two “plugs”. It will all be underneath a strapline for the paper, and it will also include other standard institutional features such as a masthead, price, barcode, and date/time.
My NEA will have additional theoretical underpinning, relating to the theories of semiotics. The dominant signifier in my paper (main image) will be a fuel meter which will be itself very reactionary, as it shows the recently increasing price which many of the audience will relate to. In addition, the anchorage will be written and described from a customer viewpoint with negative vocabulary towards the recent price increase, in order to try and intertwine with the dominant ideology of the target audience that the prices of fuel should not be this high.
My main article will be around riots occurring in the royal square as a result of the dramatically increased fuel prices, partly due to the influence of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The aforementioned riots will result in a few injuries which will feature in the title of the article. We have looked at the theory of authoritarian/libertarian in class, and my article links to this in that the people partaking in the riots are more libertarian because they think they are able to injure others and not abide by Jersey Laws.
Underneath my main photograph which will be a picture of fuel prices on a meter (this makes it easy for me to personally produce an original photograph) I will have my main body article, containing around 200-250 words, set out in columns. I will have a drop cap in this article at the first word to match to my CSP.
I will design my key elements in Photoshop. I will write my body copy on the blog and use InDesign to create the other elements and to put it all together.
STYLE MODEL
Rising Fuel Prices Trigger Violent Riots, The Royal Square played host to two large scale riots involving the rise in fuel prices on Saturday.
Standard Fuel Prices in Jersey, taken at St. Ouen’s Motor Works. The price increase has recently been linked to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, cutting off suppliers and making travel costs skyrocket.
PRICES AREN’T OKAY!
John Smith (25) has been charged with 100 hours of community service and a £1000 fine for physically assaulting many members of the public in the Royal Square. The incident was described as “outlandishly cruel” by a witness and Jack Hall, a leading police officer who assisted in defusing the situation, said that the violence was “completely unprovoked” and that the entire situation, including the riots, were completely out of line and were a result of the libertarian lifestyle the Jersey public are used to.
The riots, occurring at 2pm and 6pm on Saturday night, had hundreds of people attend and were linked to the skyrocketing prices of petrol & diesel not only across the island, but on a global scale. This is as a result of not only the War in Ukraine, but the industrial consequences endured in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
