This document discusses the process of designing tabloid newspaper front pages to accompany a story. The author created 4 designs for the front page of "The Sun" tabloid, experimenting with layout, fonts, inclusion of additional stories, and styling to mimic older newspapers. For the final design, the author aged the appearance by adding an old paper texture and reducing opacity on text and images to look worn from printing years ago. The goal was to realistically portray what the front page may have looked like if the story was published at the actual time of the events.

1. Task 8
Brandon Parker

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Headline
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Headline
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5. Fonts
• Adobe Gothic Std B
• Adobe Myungjo Std M
• Arial Black
• Bodoni MT Black
• Elephant
• Impact
• Kozuka Gothic Pro B
• Minion Pro Cond

6. For task 8 using the same story we were
asked to make the front cover for a tabloid
newspaper, out of choice I used the sun as
my header, by looking through images of
what the front of the sun would normally
look like I was able to make up my own
concept that I feel could look relatable to
them and might even be used by them.
With the front of the sun its never just one
story they tend to include a few different in
order to attract the reader by showing off
as many of the stories included as
possible, but by doing this means they cant
cover the whole story just on the front page
so they would just include the beginning of
the story to be appealing and make them
want to read the rest of the story, and by
adding ‘Read on Page…’ gives them that
inspiration to read the rest of the story if its
appealing to them. They also tent to have
white letters for headers instead of white
so it doesn’t look like there is a lot of white
space so instead in more black space
although on mine there's a lot more than
there would be on a real newspaper.

7. After looking over my first attempt at a
tabloid newspaper I realised there was
many different little tweaks I could make to
the one I have already made and so I had a
look at making it closer to being the look of
a tabloid, I changed the font size and font
face as the one I had used originally didn’t
have the look of what a paper would
normally and so by doing this meant I could
fill up more of the white space left around
the text. The text was all in one text when I
did it the first time but to allow for me to
change the spacing between each of the
words I felt it would be easier if I was to
have them in three different text boxes and
would allow for me to then choose a good
spacing between each of the works and
mean the text could be as big as I wanted
with the space allocated.
I also included a drop capital into the text
that is there to try and entice the reader
into seeing the complete story as the white
space around made the text look to small
and tight to read and by adding this I felt
give the text more space.

8. For my third attempt I used the same
story, headers and pictures but I decided to
include another story as I moved around my
title for the main story. I looked at a few more
different styled layouts for The Sun and by
looking at that decided I could vitiate it and
allow for another story to be included. The
Sun are well known for the puns in headlines
and headers and so I’ve done my best in order
to re-create this with the stories of my choice.
I also realised that The Sun stay away from
having white space on the front and so needs
to be completely covered if possible, even
though I feel it can sometimes loom over the
top I tried to produce my own version that I
felt was as close as it could be to full.
I also decided for the main block of text I
would have in white and the back ground
black to match the headline and have it seem
as the though the text and image was put
onto a completely black background as this
seems to contrast more with the red of the
front page header and also means that the
most amount of attention is given to the bold
headline in white.

9. For my last design I thought I should try and
recreate what the paper would of looked like at
the time that this even that I have done my story
for actually occurred. In order to do so I had a
look at papers that were around at the same
time and that were the same sort of style as the
sun in order to create my own version or
perception of what I felt it could look like with
my story. It appears that the layout is still the
same in a many way with just having a few
different stories on the front page, only have
having a small part of the main story and having
the rest inside to read to entice readers. To give
it a more old styled effect look I changed the
opacity on the headline, header and the images
that are included this gives it a warn out look in
a way although would just of been because the
printers weren't at the same standard as they
are today. I then went in search of finding a style
of paper that looks old fashioned and people
create the old look by staining paper with tea
and so by finding the most look a like to what
old papers look like I added it on top of my piece
then send to back so that everything would be
on top and then to finish it off change the
opacity on that so that it was as strong as it was
so that it looks a lot more realistic and not just
tea stained for effect.