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CHETAN CHOUHAN
This local newspaper is titled Wembley Central Connect whereby the contents will be focused on this particular area (Brent central) of the borough rather than the borough as a whole which includes Brent North.
My primary audience are between the ages of 17-40 which received the highest volume of replies from my questionnaire. My secondary audience will be business and economic fanatics as business and personal finances received a great interest in as part of my results.
Results showed that Business & personal finance, Community news and people, Gossip and Crime all had the equal highest volume of replies at 14 out of 20 which was followed by disaster and accidents and then Education with 13 and 12 out of 20. The topic which followed with only 10 votes was Politics, government and war. This surprised me as I initially thought that this topic would come across as interesting to read and gain knowledge of. I then looked back at the age group who mostly replied to my survey which was 13-19 year olds with 7 out of 20 replied as the highest. I feel that young people are becoming increasingly interested in politics however there are still low levels of this in the overall population.
I decided in taking the highest rated topics from my results which includes Business & personal finance, Community news and people, Gossip and Crime to include mainly inside my newspaper. I also decided to take local politics, government and war as a risk topic and also include it as part of the newspaper content.
The front cover of BRENT CENTRAL CONNECT will include all of the popular conventions of a newspaper in this case:
Strapline Front Cover Flash Splash Head Full Caps Support Story Cross Reference Captions 4 Colour Pic Page Lead By Line Masthead All will be tailored in the BRENT CENTRAL CONNECT style and design which will make it stand out to the viewer and reader.
THE JOB THE TEXT WILL DO/HOW IT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT ON THE READER/THE WAY IN WHICH THE AUDIENCE IS ADDRESSED
The text written in BRENT CENTRAL CONNECT is not set out to entertain or even hook the audience a great amount. The main objective is to provide truthful and honest accounts of news and information to the reader. I will not use any shock language or include jokes as part of my newspaper, we will leave that to THE SUN. The text will attract the reader by using a formal and constructive language and format.
WHAT OTHER TEXTS ARE THERE LIKE THE ONE I INTEND TO PRODUCE?
I intend to follow the conventions from broadsheet newspapers such as The Guardian and The Times. Looking back at my results from my survey, 7 out of 15 participants said that they read The Guardian and 4 out of 15 said they read The Times. This left only 4 spaces which were all taken up by readers of The Sun and Daily Mail. This concluded that it was wise to pursue what I was already going to do in the first place and go for a broadsheet styled local newspaper following most of the traditional conventions and codes.