NEA 2019-2020 – The Process and Briefs Explained
Page 3: One of the product stories, could be about your fitbit or something else.
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You also need to include some video and or audio: or you could do a little youtube intro of yourself, or
showcasing some exercise tips, or showing how the fitbit work, up to you) (1 minute)
Have some aspect of your blog which encourages some interaction with audience.
B RIEF 2 – F RONT P AGE AND TWO PAGES OF A ‘ RED - TOP ’ TABLOID NEWSPAPER & 3 PAGES OF AN ONLINE
NEWS MAGAZINE SIMILAR TO T HE S PECTATOR OR T HE N EW S TATESMAN .
Technical skills and personal skills needed:
Being interested in news and current affairs
Like and understand how institutions use social media to spread messages
Prefer working with Publisher or Photoshop
Researching and working with wix.com at home
Interested in producing some video content, editing, youtube clips etc:-
The Products – what you need to do.
The Red Top Tabloid - Front Cover and two pages (one related to front cover story, one not)
1) Find a red-top tabloid like The Sun, The Star and Daily Mirror. Choose which front cover and two pages you
will use as a template. The secret is to have these with you ALL THE TIME (take a photo on your phone,
scan just have more than one copy) and copy the design elements but make them your own. You cannot
borrow anything, you must create from scratch.
2) You have to come up with a name for your newspaper:
Some examples that have been used in the past are:
The Daily Herald
The Daily Scoop
The Daily Voice
The Daily Standard
3) The key with this brief is to think of a story (for front cover) which interests you and you can take
images easily for that do not involve actual celebrities etc:-
4)
Tabloid newspapers often work on sensational stories, your lead story, which will be continued
inside, should be something you are willing to write about. Plus another shorter story or more o
your other page.
Some suggestions could be around weather, sex, drugs, death, technology, sport, scandal and
health and or murder. All very grim but typical for tabloid press content.. Often they use celebrities
but you could make your own up and have a fake one.
Come up with a dramatic headlines: 1 in 4 Brits Obese, My Sex with a Royal, Social Media Addicts,
Monster rat size of cow, Child Brides as Young as 12, Killer Hail Stone, Footballer Bedded 8 women
in one night, be creative and think about what images you can reasonable get.
Write the story first (on Microsoft word) - Times News Roman – this means you can then think about what
images would best fit.