The document summarizes how a student newspaper project called "The Eccles Examiner" both develops and challenges conventions of real newspapers. It develops conventions through its local newspaper name format, use of a serious headline font, and ordering stories from most to least serious. However, it challenges conventions by using color on both pages instead of being black and white, and employing a consistent font and size throughout. The student aimed to create a stereotypical layout with images and text but also developed the format through clear stories and captioned photographs for each.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real
media products?
I am going to be looking at how my media production of the newspaper ‘The Eccles Examiner’
develops and challenges the forms and conventions of real media products. The title of my
newspaper ‘The Eccles Examiner’ is a stereotypical name for a local newspaper, it has the name of
the town it is released in and ‘Examiner’ is also a commonly used name for newspapers. The font the
headline is in is a typical style for a newspaper as it looks serious and reliable.
The context of the newspaper develops the stereotypical types of stories that would appear in an
existing local newspaper. Usually the cover story for a newspaper is the most serious story in the
whole newspaper; this is how I have decided to choose the layout of my stories. The most serious
story is on the cover whereas the less important stories such as sport and vandalism come on the
following pages.
The design and layout of my newspaper challenges some of the conventions of typical newspapers.
Stereotypical newspapers are black and white with little colour and large images, on both pages of
my newspaper I use a range of images and colours. I used a house style as I use a consistent font and
consistent size. The colour red is the main colour for the newspaper as it is the colour of the title,
and it is used for captions and opening paragraphs on the second page. I have also developed some
of the conventions of a newspaper. It is a stereotypical layout with the use of images and text, each
story is clear and images for each story are captioned so they relate.
The photographs I have taken are quite stereotypical newspaper photographs. Each story has an
image that relates to it and has been