Background research and history prezi

I conducted some research on the history of newspapers and the news, as well as some facts and figures and some thoughts on the free press. Here is a Prezi document I have composed. If it is unreadable, you can make it full screen by going to the bottom right hand corner.

Research and Background Information of Newspapers and Local Newspapers on Prezi

Choosing a brief and why I chose it

From the 12 briefs that we could choose from, I have chosen the newspaper brief. This includes -

Create the first two pages of a local newspaper, together with two of the following three options:

·      A poster for the newspaper,

·      A radio advertisement,

·      Two hyperlinked pages from the paper’s website.

From these options, I have chosen the poster and the webpage because I felt that they best suited my strengths as a Media student. I have used Photoshop before to a great extent, although I have never actually worked with sound, but I have worked in a small way with web programs. However, I felt that I would be better making a webpage than I would be making a radio advert, because although I have previous failings in web design, working with sound is somewhat alien to me.

The newspaper brief was also attractive to me because it is a line of media, which I am interested in and would consider progressing further with in my education and hopefully as a job in the industry as well.

Why I chose to use blogger

All of my work needed to be submitted electronically, so I believed it to be a good idea to upload it to a Blogger blog for several reasons:

• Blogger is user friendly, meaning it is easy to use without needing to go through any tutorials etc.
• It is so easy to embed YouTube clips, Prezi documents, copy Word documents, JPEGs, QuickTime movies, and other Flash files that are relevent.
• I also have experience using Blogger