The document outlines a schedule for completing a newspaper project from September 2015 to February 2016. It includes tasks such as researching newspaper history, creating questionnaires, designing newspaper pages, and evaluating the final products. Research is a key part of many tasks to help inform decisions. Feedback will be gathered from peers at various stages and a final evaluation will address questions about the overall project.

1. Newspaper Schedule
Main Task Sub Task Start Date End date Notes
Choose brief 25/09/15 25/09/15 Discuss brief options with teacher
Set Up Blog 25/09/15 25/09/15 Use Blogger to set up blog
Initial ideas Record Initial
Ideas
28/09/15 30/09/15 Decide on the style of newspaper
(political/general news etc.)
Planning Create a time
schedule
01/10/15 01/10/15 Use word and the ‘table tool’ to
produce the schedule whilst using
the level 4 mark scheme for task
information.
Set own
deadlines
01/10/15 01/10/15 Discuss with the teacher for
deadlines so that they suit both
parties.
Research Research
general
newspaper
history
02/10/15 02/10/15 Research general history of
newspapers to gain a further
understanding of how the world of
newspaper has changed since
being created.
Research
Regional
Newspaper
History
(Shropshire
Star)
02/10/15 02/10/15 Research the regional newspaper
of the Shropshire Star to gain a
further understanding of regional
newspapers and how they have
changed locally.
Research Urban
newspaper
(Express &Star)
02/10/15 02/10/15 Research the urban newspaper
Express & Star so that a
comparison can be made between
a urban and regional newspaper.
Research
National
Newspaper (The
Sun)
02/10/15 02/10/15 Research the national newspaper
The Sun to see what makes a
national newspaper a national
newspaper.
Find at least
three similar
newspapers in
the local region
that has a large
audience
02/10/15 10/10/15 Investigate the forms and
conventions used by the examples
and analyses the samples to fully
understand what makes them
aesthetic to their audiences and
more in importantly what makes
them a newspaper. Evaluate the
less read newspaper to understand
what is best not to do when
producing a newspaper front
cover.
Find at least one
newspaper with
a low audience
02/10/15 12/10/15
Questionnaire 05/10/15 06/10/15 Produce a questionnaire to give
out to random individuals.

2. Questionnaire
Results
07/10/15 08/10/15 Produce the results of the
questionnaire and evaluate the
data gathered.
Regional
Newspaper
Focus Group
09/10/15 09/10/15 Form a focus group from the
participants of the questionnaire to
gain their verbal input and their
reasoning to their answers.
Research
Adverts
10/10/15 11/11/15 Research adverts to see what kind
of adverts appear in a newspaper
and what they should look like.
Research Logos 13/10/15 13/10/15 Research newspaper logos to see
how the logo should be designed
for the regional newspaper.
Research Fonts 14/11/15 15/10/15 Research fonts on what fonts are
used by newspapers for their
articles and headlines then form a
decision on what font sis best to
use for your regional newspaper.
CONTIGENCY
TIME
12/10/15 15/10/15 Time to catch up to schedule if
behind
Plan Main Task Refer research findings that have
influenced my decisions in the
production process
Production
Schedule
16/10/15 17/10/15 Detailed plan of how the
production will take place and
when.
Risk Assessment 19/10/15 19/10/15 Evaluate the risks that could take
place, for example: computer
crashes and deletes files.
Contingency
Plan
20/10/15 22/10/15 The plan of what action to take if
certain risks arise
Permissions 23/10/15 23/10/15 If I need permission for certain
stories and images from the
sources. Create a form which will
list the stories and images used
and if I have permission such
material.
Layout Plan 24/10/15 27/10/15 Design the layout for the
newspaper pages detailing where
the images and text will go
Copyright 02/11/15 02/11/15 Ensure the use of the images and
other such material such as logos
in advertisement s are not
copyrighted.
Shooting Script 03/11/15 05/11/15 A detailed script (plan) of the

3. camera angles and distance of the
images that will be taken.
Create Adverts 06/11/15 07/11/15 Create the adverts for the front
and second page of the regional
newspaper.
Create Draft
Pages
09/11/15 15/11/15 Produce the prototype of the
newspaper pages
Implementation Step by Step
documentation
24/10/15 A document to demonstrate the
work progressing through the
project. Giving justifications for
decisions, getting ahead or behind
schedule whilst referring back to
my research to back my
justifications.
Editing of
Images and Text
16/11/15 23/11/15 A record of the editing that has
taken place to the images and text
and references to my research so
that justifications for the choice of
editing such as contrast changes
are well found.
Final Pages 24/11/15 05/12/15 Produce the final newspaper pages
and check the brief to ensure the
format and size are correct.
Evaluation Audience
Feedback
08/12/15 11/12/15 Send the newspaper pages to
various peer reviewers and take
note of their feedback and
reactions to the product. Refer to
the evaluation questions to ensure
that there is enough variety of
comments to answer the
questions.
Ancillary Tasks Repeat research
and planning
processes for
the ancillary
tasks
Ensure there is a main link
between the main and the ancillary
tasks so such as the radio advert
clearly relates to the stories being
published din the newspaper.
Remember to link to research and
justify why certain decisions were
made at every significant stage.
Gather audience feedback.
Billboard
Research
Research into
three billboards
for newspaper.
(Two which are
aesthetically
good whilst one
being poor in
14/12/15 19/12/15 Investigate the forms and
conventions used by the examples
and analyses the samples to fully
understand what makes them
aesthetic to their audiences and
more in importantly what makes
them a billboard. Evaluate the less

4. quality.) aesthetic billboard to understand
what is best not to do when
producing a newspaper front
cover.
Design the
layout and
colour scheme
of the billboard
Step by Step
Document
21/12/15 23/12/15 Design the layout of the billboard
and the colour scheme of the
billboard whilst keeping a record of
design judgments with references
to the research previously done
Produce
relevant
materials (logo,
banners)
29/12/15 01/01/16 Produce the logo for the
newspaper with banners and the
text to go with the billboard
because a billboard is meant to
stand out and only glimpsed at
rather than being thoroughly read
for a decent amount of time like a
poster. Billboards are meant to
display quick pieces of information
Produce the
final billboard
04/01/16 09/01/16 Produce the final billboard by
combing the already produced
products such as the logo.
Billboard
Evaluation
11/01/16 16/01/16 Send the billboard product so that
the feedback can be secured for
the evaluation. Refer to the
evaluation questions to ensure
enough feedback is gathered to
answer the questions.
Radio
Advertisement
research
18/01/16 23/01/16 Gather three radio advertisements
for local newspapers. Two of them
from wider radio studios who have
a higher audience and one from a
low audience radio studio. This will
ensure a range of adverts to see
what to do and not to do for my
radio advertisement.
Radio Script 26/01/16 29/01/16 Produce the radio script with
references the research so that all
script judgements and the
structure of the script is justified
with relevant research from
previous radio adverts.
Gather relevant
material such as
sound effects.
30/01/16 30/01/16 Depending on the research, if
sound effects or music is used in
the adverts then sound will need to
be utilized in my radio advert.

5. Practice
Audacity
01/02/16 01/02/16 Audacity is a sound program that
allows sound effects, music and
speech to be edited together to
produce a radio advert for
example. I am unfamiliar with this
program so practice with this
program will be needed to ensure I
produce the radio advert to the
best my ability
Copyright 02/02/16 04/02/16 Ensure that copyright laws are
obeyed with the Audacity and any
sound effects used.
Produce radio
Advert
05/02/16 08/02/16 Produce the radio advert by using
audacity and keeping a record
about the creative decisions made.
Reference to research to justify
and clarify why certain creative
choices were made.
Radio Advert
Evaluation
09/02/16 12/02/16 Play the radio advert to some
peers and record their reactions to
the advert. Ask for the feedback
afterwards about the radio advert
so that enough feedback is
recorded to complete the
evaluation questions.
Final Evaluation Address four
sets of
questions
15/02/16 24/02/16 Using the records I have been
taking throughout the project to
inform the answers. Use a
Microsoft PowerPoint which will
then be uploaded to Slide Share
which will link to my blog.
Submission Ensure all
products are
available in the
correct media
format
25/02/16 25/02/16 Thoroughly investigate this to
ensure the product relates directly
to the brief so that the product is
appropriate for the brief.
Check blog for
spelling and
grammar
mistakes
25/02/16 25/02/16 Checking that blog has no spelling
and grammar mistakes is vital to
ensure there are no difficulties in
communication.
Check all links in
the blog work
correctly
26/02/16 26/02/16 If all the links don’t work then my
work won’t be shown so all links
MUST be tested.
Sign Sheet- All
own work
26/02/16 26/02/16