The top image here is of the first draft that I made of my tabloid newspaper. I used a large bold font that was quite spaced out, I feel that I could have utilised the space that I gave myself in the redbox a little better than I did.

In the top right I used an image of a 50p to indicate the cost of the newspaper, I saw this idea from another newspaper and thought that it was a great idea that I wanted to try and emulate.

I used the leading tool to space out the word today across the bottom, I wanted the word to stretch out for the length of the red box to ensure that the title looked as professional as possible. The font I used was called poetsen one and I thought that it looked similar to some of the fonts that other tabloids used which was my main motivation for its usage.

The image at the bottom of the screen was the second draft of my tabloid newspaper. For this draft I didn’t want to have as much space in the red box as I left last time, to counteract this I made the box significantly smaller. I enlarged the font and used leading to push the words letters closer together. I then changed the baseline of them to ensure that they were very close together.

I added a tagline underneath with the website and the issue number on. In hindsight I should have added a date as most newspapers run on dates as opposed to issues. I added the price in the top right again this was to ensure that as much of the red box space was filled as possible.

On the right hand side I opted to add a competition, I went into Photoshop and created a gradient that I felt went well with the paper. I then took the logo of Topman and Topshop and added it underneath. I don’t really like the blue font now but I will leave it there as a work in progress.

The top image here is the centre area of the first draft of my tabloid newspaper. I tried to make it as similar to other tabloids as I could. I took the image that I wanted to use and added it into photoshop, I then added a black to transparent gradient on it. I used a large bold white font and used alliteration for the headline which is something that Is popular in tabloids.

For the text box below the headline I added two columns of writing using the font top modern which is an easy to read serif font. After that I used the rectangle tool on InDesign to add a large red square around the outside of the box, this was to give the effect of distance between the headline and the body text and to add a little bit of colour to ensure that the entire thing isnt just black and white.

The bottom image was my second draft. This time I opted for a picture of the same size but didn’t add the gradient as I liked the idea of experimenting with both of them. I again used a large bold font for the headline but this time decided to leave it black on a white background. This again was to experiment with both options of reverse to see which one I liked the best.

Images at same side however one with border and one without.

Added football scores for first draft. Regret not putting them onto second draft.

I feel both have good subheadlines however the top one has a better infographic with the work

Larger image for second draft.

Second draft has a quoted word from the article in it, not really a pull quote but kinda.

Used logo on both editions. If you zoom in close you can see the editing I did to it!

Both have similar top bars with interesting stories in however I prefer the layout on the right hand side.

I prefer the headline of the first draft, I feel second draft headline is too spaced out and leaves blank space.

I think I prefer the overalllayout of the second draft. However I like the side story from the first draft and how it was laid out.

The first draft has some colour involved which I like I should have perhaps incorporated more colour into the second draft.

I think that draft 2 looks more professional overall than draft one which is a positive.

Draft 1 Draft 2