For Studio Brief 03, we were set the task to gather a few newspapers from Saturday the 25th October and chose an article we would with to research into.
There are only some restrictions to the research we must gather, such as: Not being restricted to statistical, empirical, and personal views.
The papers I had chosen. The 'i' on Saturday (Left) and The Times (Right).
After much reading and analysing different layouts, I had chosen to go with something that was a little more light hearted compared to most of the articles in these papers. The article's in question are both related to Russell Brand and his appearance on BBC Newsnight.
Here is the article I picked out of the 'i'. Only using up the far left hand corner of the page, it is a secluded story only using no more than 2 columns.
Here is the very same story in The Times. Funnily enough, the exact same layout is used, 2 columns in the upper left hand side of the right page.
As you can tell, both newspapers chose to issue the story in exactly the same sort of manor in terms of layout and composition.
But as I looked more deeply into the context of the language used, they completely differ from one another. The 'i' on one hand used the information purely to translate the story clearly and simplistically, The Times on the other hand gives the view of Philip Davies, a conservative MP, which to me doesn't seem entirely relevant to the story in hand.
In terms of layout, I can easily say that 'i' seems to come across the more legible one of the two. With The Times having a break in the text for an image seems to deter the reader away from the content.
Almost identical. Both newspapers show similarities such as page layout and column size/amount.
I decided to show the grids used by dragging the above two images into indesign and using the rulers to show how they match up.
Here are the results:
The Times grid.
These grids I have made clearly show how closely relatable the two papers are in terms of layout and content. The 'i' is a little more complex than The Times but overall they are identical.
In the Graphic Design industry, whether you are designing a leaflet or website, if that piece of design has anything you feel strongly towards, you must stay unbiased throughout the execution, obviously this only applies when it is necessary, kind of like this project.
Throughout my research I have tried to keep my views to a minimum and focus in the task in hand. That is, finding and comparing multiple sources to see how they have displayed their stories.
As a form of secondary research in addition to primary which was covered in my previous post, I have chosen to look at how 2 websites went about showing this story.
The 2 sites in hand (The Independent & The Daily Mail) are known to be newspapers traditionally, but also use the internet as another way of distributing their news.
As you can tell, both newspapers chose to issue the story in exactly the same sort of manor in terms of layout and composition.
But as I looked more deeply into the context of the language used, they completely differ from one another. The 'i' on one hand used the information purely to translate the story clearly and simplistically, The Times on the other hand gives the view of Philip Davies, a conservative MP, which to me doesn't seem entirely relevant to the story in hand.
In terms of layout, I can easily say that 'i' seems to come across the more legible one of the two. With The Times having a break in the text for an image seems to deter the reader away from the content.
As you can see, the layout to the article seems tiny compared to the massive advertisement at the bottom of the page.
I decided to show the grids used by dragging the above two images into indesign and using the rulers to show how they match up.
Here are the results:
The 'i' grid.
These grids I have made clearly show how closely relatable the two papers are in terms of layout and content. The 'i' is a little more complex than The Times but overall they are identical.
In the Graphic Design industry, whether you are designing a leaflet or website, if that piece of design has anything you feel strongly towards, you must stay unbiased throughout the execution, obviously this only applies when it is necessary, kind of like this project.
Throughout my research I have tried to keep my views to a minimum and focus in the task in hand. That is, finding and comparing multiple sources to see how they have displayed their stories.
As a form of secondary research in addition to primary which was covered in my previous post, I have chosen to look at how 2 websites went about showing this story.
The 2 sites in hand (The Independent & The Daily Mail) are known to be newspapers traditionally, but also use the internet as another way of distributing their news.
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