My front cover is based off of the Guardian newspaper with an audience of people that are middle class adults interested in politics, informational topics such as the economy and are logical thinkers. It’s easy to see that it is aimed at a different class of people compared to readers of a tabloid newspaper like The sun or The Daily Star because the language, layout and images are vastly different to those of a newspaper like The Times or The Guardian. The language of The Guardian is formal with a complex use of vocabulary.
I haven’t directly represented the rioters. “The rioters aren’t the only people to blame” shows that there are people or groups that also hold responsibility over what had happened during the riots. Although the rioters aren’t directly represented, the image still shows all of the damage and chaos that was caused by them rampaging through the streets like wild buffalo. The image shows no appearances which isn’t putting anyone on the spot on a largely read newspaper. I feel that this is a fitting representation because the guardian have also showed that it isn’t just the rioters faults, other things could have been put in place to protect the streets of London, especially as it carried on for almost a week.
The police are the main focus of the image on my front page. The riot gear that they are wearing shows that they are defending the area from rioters. “The rioters aren’t the only people to blame” suggests that they or the government could have done more to put high ordered measurements in place to ensure that there would be less damage ruining the streets of London. Also, the copycat riots that happened in places such as Liverpool could have been held under more control as it was inevitable that riots would take place else where other than London because of the ideology behind the riots. I don’t feel like I have represented any group particularly negatively, maybe a little suggestive as to other people being to blame.
I chose not to directly represent any group of people as a whole because the other newspaper articles that I have seen from the guardian aren’t directly blaming anyone, but they are hinting towards who could have done more about the situations and how we can handle things differently to than how it was handled. My front page layout is quite neat and precise like the Guardian to make it appear more formal and readable by the audiences of middle aged adults. I chose only to have one picture so that the front page wasn’t busy or over loaded with unnecessary images or advertisements, which would otherwise be seen in newspapers like the Daily Star. I have made it clean cut by lining up where the text would be with separation lines making it easier to read which would have a cut to the chase story displayed. A text box on the image shows what is happening within it, and again gives another insight to the story. I feel that the front cover that I have designed is similar to the Guardian and holds the same type of qualities that the Guardian does, obviously not to such a high standard because I’m no journalist.
I know that the Guardian have an audience of middle aged adults that like to read about stories that are important in our society like what’s happening with the government, or the goings on in other countries like Libya. They layout is neat and well though about in order to get a middle aged adult audience to read it. So the layout isn’t all over the place and busy, it’s just straight forward and gets right into the story. This affected the way in which I designed mine because I wanted to get a similar sort of layout in order to create a similar front page.
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