This document provides instructions for a research and production task on newspaper conventions. Students are asked to: 1. Research and present in a PowerPoint the generic conventions of broadsheet and tabloid newspaper covers, including features like mastheads, headlines, images, and news values. 2. Based on their research, students should produce one original broadsheet and one original tabloid style newspaper cover, applying conventions but allowing room for originality. 3. The covers should include at least one original image and be presented in a format resembling real newspapers. Further details on presenting the research and productions will be provided later.

1. Tabloid
Conventions:
Tabloid
Generic Conventions within Covers

2. Brief 01: • Brief 01: Newspaper Conventions
• This first brief is a research and production task aimed at giving you the opportunity to develop research and
production skills needed within the production of print media.
• Task 1:
• Create a PowerPoint in which you present your research into the generic conventions of broadsheet newspaper
covers.
• Begin with slide of covers. The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph
• Slide for each conventions. Slide of masthead (typical/conventional for it, fonts, differences (modern etc. to be
different) (do for every feature: lang of headline, images, news values with examples)
• Task 2:
• Create a PowerPoint in which you present your research into the generic conventions of tabloid newspaper covers.
• Same process as Task 1
• Decide whether daily mail and daily express as more tabloid or more broadsheet
• Task 3:
• Based on your research, produce one broadsheet newspaper front cover and one tabloid newspaper cover.
• Original newspaper or copy format of each.
• Look like existing media or break conventions (need a good reason to break these conventions)
• Think about lessons (signs etc.)
• Both covers should contain at least one original image.
• Further details on how to present your research and productions pending update.

3. • Examples of Tabloid Covers
• The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph
• Within their conventions

4. Masthead: Analysis of style
• Include the date above the title along with
the price. All are located at the top of the
tabloid. The font is inconsistent with "Daily
being in all caps and "Mirror" has a
capitalised first letter.
• Compared to the other logos, theres more
text within it. However
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5. Language of Headlines
The guardian used spoken text and
language
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All these newspapers stay within the generic
conventions on a Broadsheet paper as the
language remains serious and 'straight to the
point'.
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