A2 Media Studies

1. A2 Media Studies

2. • White spaces – This is areas of the page that
are left blank, this area also known as negative
space.
• Margins and Gutters – This is the area of a
page that is sectioned out, in order to take into
account the binding process of a newspaper.
• Frames – This is basically just a box surrounding
images and text, in order to separate the two.
• Columns – This is the arrangement of each text
frame that consists of an article. Usually thin and
long paragraphs, that tend to go alongside an

3. • Masthead – This refers to the banner along the
top of a newspaper that displays the
name/publisher.
• Images – Photos or illustrations that are used
alongside a news article in order to create a
visual element for the reader.
• Graphics – This is the use of any maps or
diagrams that are used to displayed facts and
statistics, that tend to relate to a news story
being featured.
• Headlines – This is the large piece of text, which
tends to try and explain a news story in one
sentence.

4. • Subheads – This is found below the headline in
a smaller font and tends to relate to the headline,
but giving a bit more of the essential information.
• Captions – This is a small sentence found below
and image or illustration, which tends to explain
what it happening in the image, or what the
image is showing.
• Side Bars – This are the smaller, less important
articles that are found in smaller boxes, down the
side of a main news story.
• Decks – Short pieces of text that summarizes a
news article.

5. • Pull quotes – These are quotes that are chosen from an
article, out of importance, and written in a much larger
and bolder font. They tend to be placed just before the
paragraph that they are found in.
• By line – This is where you find the name of the writer,
and it’s found just about the news story columns.
• Initial caps/drop caps – This a large capital letter that
would be found during the beginning of the first story in
the newspaper.
• Adverts – Advertisements that are printed either on their
own page, or found in the corner of pages with news
stories featuring on them.