Newspaper Shot

When we asked some people to watch our film, many of them were unaware about the newspaper Horatio writes up. They said that the layout was unclear and many mistook the newspaper article for a diary. The one person who hinted that this could be an article suggested that we should change the layout to make it look more obvious that it was actually a newspaper article. Therefore, we changed and enlarged the title font, as well as making a column, and then including the write up inside that same column.

When our media teacher saw this shot, she too, thought it looked more like a diary rather than a newspaper, and questioned whether a diary would be a more sinister idea compared to that of an article. We thought about this but believed we should keep it as a newspaper article because a blog would mean that everyone knows about Horatio ` s obsession with Mia, even before the storyline has developed, meaning we would not be matching the convention of our genre. As a result of this, we kept our original idea of a newspaper article and improved it, as most of our audience had suggested.