This document summarizes a student's media coursework project where they created a local newspaper. The student researched conventions of real newspapers, aimed to recreate the layout and style. They created a promotional poster and newspaper, which were cohesive in design. Feedback from peers said the layout was easy to understand with eye-catching ads and images. The student used Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Word for construction, and a blogger site to publish content and gather feedback. While aspects went well, the student notes keeping deadlines, ad placement, and layout planning as areas for improvement.

1. A2 Media Coursework Local Newspaper Evaluation Jessica Battle Blog: www.nowitsanewspaper.blogspot.com

3. Examples of Research I used the internet and my own examples of local and national newspaper and used them to identify differences and similarities. I applied this knowledge to my own newspaper and tried to follow my plan by creating a checklist.

6. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Programmes used: Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop Microsoft word- used to import text, write up questionnaires and to type up evaluative work. blogger.com During the construction part of my project I used Adobe Photoshop to create my main title for my magazine and to edit all of the images that I produced. To create the actual newspaper and plan its layout I used Adobe In Design. Using this programme allowed me to import different types of media onto one document. I was able to use Microsoft Word to type up all of my newspaper articles, I then was able to import these onto the neat columns onto the front page and double page spread of my newspaper. I was also able to do something similar with my photo-shopped images. By creating several layers I could simply drag a piece of work from Photoshop straight onto my In Design document. Blogger link: http://nowitsanewspaper.blogspot.com/2011/03/using-software.html