Planning for the front cover: Creating a name of my local newspaper.

When creating the name of the local newspaper we had to work as a group and agree on something we thought was the most suitable. We found the key thing with deciding on the name of the local newspaper was noting down a variety of names and then choosing the one that will suit our newspaper the best.
I also researched, online, the names of local newspapers to set me in the right direction. From my research I found out that each weekly local newspaper included 'weekly' in their masthead to indicate to the readers that it is a weekly local newspaper. I also found out that each local newspaper included the name of their town/village/city and this tended to be at the beginning of the masthead.
Here are some of the ideas we came up with:
Haverhill Weekly Sunday,
Haverhill Weekly Times,
Haverhill Weekly Deliver,
Haverhill Weekly Journal,
Haverhill Weekly Gazette,
Haverhill Weekly Telegraph,
Haverhill Weekly Express,
Haverhill Weekly Press.

From all of this choices we came down to three choices, which were: 'Haverhill Weekly Journal, 'Haverhill Weekly Gazette' and 'Haverhill Weekly Press'. After trying out the each masthead on our layouts we came to a decision to use 'Haverhill Weekly Gazette'.

Computerised Layouts

Firstly I completed a drawn layout for the front cover and the inside page however the drawn layouts were a very rough guide that were just to indicate to me what layout I was going to use for the Haverhill Weekly Gazette. I did not think this layout was acceptable to use a a proper guide because it was hand drawn and not very accurate. Therefore I then went onto complete a computerised layout to help me achieve the accuracy.

Front Cover

Inside Cover

Final decision of the inside page of the local newspaper.

Instead of deciding ourselves we decided to ask our target audience, people aged 19 - 30, to choose what layout they would prefer to see on the inside colour of their local newspaper. After getting the results back from the 25 people we asked 13 people decided that this one was more appropriate. I think that there decision was sensible as I find it aesthetically pleasing and is suitable for the Haverhill Weekly Gazette.

Planning for the front cover: My drafts for the inside page of a local newspaper.

I have also done a range of inside page layouts to, again, give me a choice of the layout I am going to choose.

Planning for the front cover: Decision of the layout.

As a group we had to decide on a layout together. In the end we decided on: 

We choose this layout as it is simple and it shall grab the audience's attention, therefore making them want to read their local newspaper. I contributed to choosing this layout as I found on my survey monkey this layout was the most similar layout, that people thought was very acceptable for their local newspaper layout.

I will now go onto filling in the gaps of the local newspaper we my ideas and for my own issue. 

Planning for the front cover: My drafts for the front page of a local newspaper.

I have drafted these layouts, based upon my local newspaper layouts to give me a variety of choice and choose the best layout for my local newspaper. 

Results - Analysing them from my survey.

When looking into my results I could then go onto create the front page of my local newspaper
My results show me that people would:
- Rather receive a free local paper (60%),
- Prefer a weekly local newspaper (76.7%),
- Like to see local events and articles based around local experiences (46%),
- Think it is acceptable if my layout was similar to Haverhill Weekly News (73.3%),
-  Like to see local business's being advertised (96.7%),
- Prefer to see a mixture of both articles and images on the front cover of my local newspaper (73.3%).