Daily Mail Evaluation

1) What was the task you were given and who was your target audience?
The task we were given was to recreate a Daily Mail cover. Our target audience was towards a more right wing C2, D and E demographic.


2) What research did you undertake and what did you find were some of the typical conventions of a Daily Mail front cover - layout, types of stories, fonts
The Daily Mail write shorter stories using unambiguous language and they have more pictures than other newspapers. They report on political and international news however tend to focus on celebrity gossip and scandal.

 
3) Which Daily Mail cover did you use as your main source? Insert. What are your observations from this source? I used this cover. On this cover there is a larger colourful masthead. They have a story on the royal family. There title is bold and a funny rhetorical question. They changed the colour of "FREE" to yellow to stand out and draw people in.










4) Which areas did you find most challenging? 

I found that the fonts and the sizing of the letters was very difficult to get accurately, it was very fiddly. I also found it challenging coming up with the article title and content. 

5) What was you initial feedback? What did others say about your production? How successful was do you think it is?I think my work was successful as I got most of the layout accurate as I out a faded picture of the Daily Mail in the background and worked on top of that. I also think my skyline was made creatively and my titles were almost an accurate font.

6) Identify with hindsight what you do to improve/do differently.
I would have written the article better and come up with a more witty headline.

7) In the exam you will be analysing newspaper front covers. In producing this cover, are there any areas that you hadn't noticed before? What have you learnt from completing this task? 
I have learnt that there is a lot of bias in the Daily Mail and where to look out for its persuasive language.