On the headlines page of the Nov. 11 issue, the Homecoming story does not follow the design rules stated in Harrower’s Newspaper Designer’s Handbook. According to the book, “the headline should touch the start of the story” (Harrower 55). Rather than doing that, I designed the page so that the headline was above the photo, and the text did not touch the headline as it should. Despite this, the page featured one large dominant photo, rather than having a small image, which may cause “faces and places [to] become indecipherable” (54). The size of the picture also shows the importance of the article, and the large photo of Kelly shows that the article is the main one of the page.
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As for page 5 of the Oct. 13 issue, the mug shots should have been more closely cropped. The people’s faces in the pictures were smaller than the size of a dime; “mug shots should fill the frame tightly” (Harrower 50). In addition, not all of them have captions, as they should. It would be nice to follow a specific format. The design handbook suggests having the person’s name on the first line and his or her description or title in the next line. On the other hand, the editor placed the pictures in good places for three out of the five articles. Two of them sat above the headlines in the one-column stories, while one was on the side of the article.
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