Studio Brief 4: Research

Below are photos of the 3 newspapers that I bought in search of a news story that I found interesting to research for this project. It is quite interesting the diferent styles that the magazines have gone for.

The Daily Star is a red top which means it is a tabloid aimed at light readers who are interested in celebrity gossip. The newspaper is dominated with pictures and has a lot of colour compared to any broadsheet. The use of bold, sans serif font for the title is quite eye catching and quite scary. The intentions of the newspaper is to scare the audience into buying the newspaper out of curiosity.


The sun has gone for a diferent approach with a more comical approach, making reference to a popular film, whilst being quite sarcastic. I prefer the design of this tabloid more as it is less cluttered. There is only one headline on the cover and the rest of the adverts are boxed off and don't overlap each other unlike the Daily Star. They have used the same font for the headline as the daily star, although it has less impact black on white.


The Daily Mail is a middle-market tabloid. The use of a blacklister font for their logo and serif font for their headline shows that this magazine is slightly more upper class than the previous red tops. They have used diferent fonts for diferent stories to appeal to a larger audience, with more serious stories about health tourism (Serif font) and less serious stories about the royal families family photos (sans serif font).



I have decided that the story I want to research is the one below, from the daily mail, that talks about the rate at which more robotic surgeries are taking place. It is quite a controversial subject as there have been many instances where the robotic arm has malfunctioned and caused serious injury to the patient. This worries many people. I am also interested in the way that the Daily mail has reported on the subject. They have a picture of a android hand which a scalpel in-between two fingers. This is very misleading as the robots are nothing like human arms in the slightest. They resemble the machinery that is used to assemble cars. Many people fear how advanced technology is getting, and using such a misleading photo creates even more controversy.



I plan to do more research into this story over the weekend for our crit on monday.

Thursday, 24 October 2013 by Ashley Woodrow-smith
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