Questionnaire - What do you expect to see on the front page and the second page of a local newspaper?

What do you expect to see on the front page and the second page of a local newspaper?

Front page:

Would you expect to see more than one advert on the front page of a local newspaper?

[ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] Sometimes


2. On the front page of a local newspaper, would you favour to see a photograph taking up more of the page than the article?

[ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] Sometimes

3. Would you expect to see coloured print on the front page of a local newspaper?

[ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] Partly

4. How would you expect the name of the paper to be presented?
(e.g. font, colour, format, size)

……………………………………………………………………………….

……………………………………………………………………………….

……………………………………………………………………………….

5. Which of the following titles would be best suited to a newspaper based over the whole of Essex?

[ ] ‘The Essex Heart’
[ ] ‘The Essex Moon’
[ ] ‘The Essex Times’
[ ] ‘The Essex Free Press’


6. Are you more likely to read a front page article if the title is short and catchy or descriptive?

[ ] Short & catchy [ ] Descriptive [ ] Depends on the story

7. How many miniature stories would you expect to see on a front page of a local newspaper?
[ ] One [ ] Two [ ] Three or more



8. Would you expect to see any other photograph on the front page?

[ ] Yes (If so, tick below) [ ] No

[ ] Adverts
[ ] Miniature stories



9. Are you more likely to read through the whole newspaper if the front page is well set out and includes an article of your interest?

[ ] Yes [ ] No





Second page:

Would you expect to see more news articles on the second page rather than the first?

If yes, roughly how many?
[ ] 2 [ ]3/4 [ ]5/6 [ ]6+


Would you expect to see more photographs on the second page of a newspaper than the first?

[ ] Yes [ ] No
[ ] It depends ……………………………………………………………


Would you expect to see coloured print on the second page?

[ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] Partly


Tick as many of the following that you expect to see any of the following information on the second page of a local newspaper?

[ ] Weather forecast [ ] Contact information

[ ] Advertisements [ ] Other………………………………...






Would you expect to read more detailed stories on the second page rather than the front page?

[ ] Yes [ ] No [ ]It depends …………………………………

How many miniature stories would you expect to read on the second page of a local newspaper?

[ ] 1 or 2 [ ] 3 or 4 [ ] 5 or 6 [ ] 6+


I have collected half of my results in the table below:

Initial Ideas for my Newspaper

NEEDS A LATER DATE

To create the first two pages of a local newspaper, I am going to use Microsoft Office Publisher. I chose to use this because I am familiar with it and I know how to use it at an advantage for creating a newspaper. Publisher offers me lay outs that would benefit a newspaper; e.g. using columns to create the format of the text that a real newspaper would use.

Here is the prices of the newspapers that I have looked at:
Suffolk Free Press
East Anglian Daily Times
The Sun - 30p
The Guardian - £1
Halstead Gazette
Haverhill Weekly News

I have decided to make my newspaper 50p as it's an average price, and it's a rounded number which is easy to find the right amount of change for.





Name of Paper

For the name of my paper, I wanted to decide on something that would associate the paper with the whole of Essex, not just one particular area in the county. I chose to base my newspaper in Essex as research would me a lot more possible to complete with more detail and confidence that what I say and write about would be closest to the truth, rather than a near by county or place.
I also chose to base my newspaper over the whole of the county rather than just a particular place of it as it would give me alot more possibility of being able to write about bigger and perhaps more drastic stories, rather than basing my newspaper in a small local towns which tend to have smaller, and perhaps considered less interesting stories.

After recieving the results of the questionnaire, I have decided to call my newspaper The Essex Heart. I chose the word 'heart' as it is warm and I feel welcoming to readers. It's denotational meaning also creates an interesting effect, a heart is a main organ of the human body, the body would not function without a heart. This connotates a newspaper that is an important part of Essex or any other county if I were to change my mind.


Aritlces
I have decided to use two articles on the front page of my newspaper. They will also appear on my website, but in brief.
I am going to write a story about university fees, and a story about a couple building a school in Kenya.
The stories on my second page will consist of:
Cheap Thief Makes Profit
Teen Having Triplets
Race for Life Dates Announced
Braintree Introduces Free Parking
Mother and Infant Die in Blaze
(read articles in their own posts)


Adverts

I am going to create adverts on the front page and inside page for local businesses of Essex. The local business advert will be of my dad's pest and hygeine control business - 'Advantage Environmental'. His business is based through out the whole of Essex, therefore being very well suited for the newspaper.

For the second page of my newspaper, I will be using two more adverts, one is for a wedding photographer and the other for a local Essex based Motoring company.

Photographs

On the front page of my newspaper, I will have a large photograph that links to the main first page article. This will be a photograph of the pregnant teenager.


Below, I have printscreened the process of making the first two pages of my newspaper: