1. Conventions of a newspaper Front Page
A conventional masthead is used at the top of the page. It
contains the date and the website for the paper. The plug used
advertises pages within the paper. The date and website address
The colours used within layout is un-conventional due to it being vertically positioned.
the masthead representThey have used a San Serif style to connote a modern paper for
a traditional non-biased modern audience.
a The main story is
paper. The use a red about ‘Rubbish
background illustrating Backlog’. There is
that the paper is free. no picture due to it
This colour would being off-putting
attract people’s and not attractive.
attention to the paper. The main story has
two columns
including the Editor
of the story and a
section telling you
what page the story
A news and brief is is on. A San-Serif
used here and is font is used to
divided up into four highlight that it is a
different sections main story and to
(News, Showbiz, Music draw the reader’s
and Sport). This allows attention to it.
people to see the main
stories in the paper for
each section. The news
and brief is a
The secondary story
convention used in
is about a celebrity
many free papers today.
(Kate Middleton).
It is there because it
They have included
saves people time
a picture of a
looking through the
celebrity due to it
paper for a certain
appealing to the
section. The advert being placed at the bottom taking up the width of audience reading the
the page is also a convention of a free paper. The advert is paper.
advertising a health product, which can also be classed as a
convention of a January paper due to the public wanting to
have a healthier life style after the Christmas break.