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Unit 3 - Processing Text and Images

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Delivering the News

Slough and Eton have a school newsletter. It's name is Synergy, and it comes out every week. It's a good newsletter and you should try and get hold of it. 

In this unit you are going to create a newsletter for your friends and to your parents.  The first newsletter will be written for new students at Slough and Eton. The second will be aimed at the parents of these pupils. 

Each newsletter will have at least two sides and the members of your news team will have responsibility for at least one part of the paper.  

In order to complete this unit you will

  • Work in groups of four with each member having responsibility for at least two parts of the paper. The newspaper will have two sides.

  • Include appropriate images that have been collected/prepared from a variety of sources. 

  • Include content that is up to date and reflect the interests of the chosen audience.

Resources

Sheet Title Notes Format
1 Synergy A worksheet where you identify Synergy house style doc
2 Choosing a newspaper style A worksheet where you create your own newspaper style doc 
3 Responsibility Sheet A sheet where responsibilities are allocated for your newsletter doc
4 Create a text frame How to create a set of parallel overflowing text frames pdf
5 Create an image frame How to create an image frame pdf
6 Project Evaluation Generator  A form to evaluate your work with HTML
Task 1 Identify the House Style of a newsletter  

Just as there are conventions about how we spell, punctuate, or lay out a brochure or letter, so there are established conventions about how the front page of a daily newspaper is presented. 

These conventions include: 

  • the font and style of the masthead 
  • the use and impact of headlines
  • the placement of the lead story
  • the acknowledgment of reporters' names (known as bylines) and of other sources, along with the dateline; 
  • the use of photos with their explanatory captions
  • the use of diagrams, tables, and other info graphics, which summarise information into visual form
  • the use of columns, boxes, stories going across the page
  •  the variety in presentation of type, including reversed type of white on black; the use of space, including white space, and other aspects of layout and presentation.

Take a look at our Synergy newspaper and identify the Synergy house style. 

Remember, you have been asked to create two newsletters, one for new pupils at Slough and Eton and another for parents of pupils at Slough and Eton. So before you begin writing decide on the audience

  • What are the needs of the audience
  • What does this audience want the news letter to look like 

You've identified your team, you now know what your responsibilities are and now you have decided on your audience. Now its time to get down and create the newsletter template. 

 

     

    Task 3 Allocate Responsibilities and begin to work

You, and and a team of three others will be creating a newsletter. Your team will have different roles, but they will be working towards the same thing.

  • Reporter - the person who sniffs out the story, does the research and writes the articles.
  • Sub editor - this person gets the articles from the reporter. The sub editors proof read the articles and check the facts. They arrange the articles on the page and write a headline for each story.
  • Photographer this person takes pictures that illustrate what the stories say.
  • Editor this is the big boss who keeps track of everything. They make sure that everything works together to get the paper looking good enough and out on time.

    Choose who you would like to work with and then as a group indicate on the Responsibility Sheet what job you are going to do. As a member of the team, you will be responsible for an aspect of the paper. 

 


    Task 4 Put the newspaper together

    Well done, you have completed your first newsletter. Now, you need to create another. Use the same content, just simply change the house style.

This task you will show your two newsletters to the class and read their newsletters. You will also evaluate your own newsletters,  using the Project Evaluation Generator. For more details about each category in the PEG, put your mouse over the field headings and a pup up box will offer more details.

This project evaluation page is to be handed in with your work and you will need to write an introduction to your work, make some general comments about it and write an evaluation on it. You will get a mark for using each of the words below correctly. 

  • Scanner
  • Digital Camera
  • Resolution 
  • dpi (dots per inch)
  • Line art
  • Template
  • Bitmap graphic
  • Vector graphic

 

     

 

     


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