Master Pages

This is screenshot of my master pages that I created in InDesign, a master page is a publishing term for a template, I have set these up so now every page I create for my newspaper will already have this information and design on.

As you can see below, I have the title of the newspaper (SpEEC) printed aswell as the date in the outside top corner of the page then I have created a thin blue stroke going across each page at the top to separate the title and date from the news and then in the bottom outer corners of each page I have taken the college logo (the red shape) and created it into a page number image, where each page number will be present on top. This shows the college being involved, additionally, the red and blue combination of this page represent the colleges house style colours.

For the front page I have added the newspaper logo, date, price, a stroke and a footer on the master page as this will be on every front page and always in the same place as you can see directly below.

House Style Newspaper Font

Below is a print screen of my font style template that i created in InDesign, as you can see the headings for my newspaper will be in Helvetica Neue, the sub-headings in Prestige Elite Std and the body text in Century.

Although my newspaper is going to be a college parody I have still chosen typical newspaper fonts as I don't want to challenge the font conventions of a newspaper as I need the students to still be able to read it easily. So from my research I have realised these fonts are pretty common among newspapers, especially the heading and body text I chose which are of the most importance, for the sub-headings I have challenged it a little as i felt my newspaper still need to have edge and look contemporary to relate to the students, so instead of having modern text or typical newspaper font I have gone a different route and gone for a type-writing style which holds connotations of old style writing and publishing.

New Newspaper Title, developed and final!

The logo above I designed through developing my sketches and I was sure it looked good for a newspaper logo/title however when I showed it to peers and my tutor they said it doesn't look very strong so after a lot of work and development I designed the one below which got much better feedback so below is my completed, final logo!