For today’s lecture we are learning about the different types of newspapers. By doing this it allows us to understand the type of images that different types of newspapers are interested in.
Tabloids are half the size of broadsheets and often concentrate on human interest. They are also cheaper than broadsheets, because of this they usually have a higher circulation figures. There is also around 50% of photographic content in tabloids.
Broadsheets are double the size of tabloids an concentrate on in depth coverage of political, national and international news. They are more expensive than tabloids and have a lover circulation figures than tabloids as well. The photographic content in a broadsheet are very low with only 10% being images and 90% being writing.
We were challenged to look through a broadsheet and a tabloid to see if we could find three of the same stories and how differently they were portrayed.
The first news story is about Boris Johnson meeting Myanmar leader, the first image is by The Sun and the second image is by The Daily Telegraph. Its very obvious to see that the daily telegraph focus on the story more than the sun because the story is suited more towards the daily telegraphs audience. The sun has chosen to use multiple images and little text to explain the story and the daily telegraph has used two images but a lot of text.
The Sun
The Daily Telegraph
The second news story is about a plane crash that killed 71 people, the sun used two images, on these images being a pretty blonde women. They used this image to try and capture the readers attention and feel sympathy for her instead of the other 70 people killed. The daily telegraph used an image that was straight to the point. unlike the sun there was also a large amount of text supporting this image.
The Sun
The Daily Telegraph
The third story I found was about the royal wedding. In these images its clear to see that the sun has given this story more publicity then the crash story. This is because the royal wedding is of people interest. There is a large image of Meghan in a wedding dress which catches peoples attention, there is also adverts surrounding the story about valentines day to create the sense of romance. The daily Telegraph’s version of this story is more conventional because they show a picture of where the two are to be wed. Both newspaper however have about the same amount of text in each story.
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