Conventions of a poster

This is a poster advertising the film Pirates Of the Caribbean- Curse Of the Black Pearl. It has s large title which is eye catching,with bold colors which stand out because of the contrast with the relatively dark background. It has an intriguing picture which attracts the viewer to the film, the poster uses persuasive language in order to persuade the audience to go and watch the film by having big hollywood Stars on the poster such as Johnny Depp. It uses the rule of thirds well as it splits the poster into three so tat the audience can look at each section bit by bit in order to gain whatever information they want and to see what the film is all about. It also splits the villains and heroes into three, the two people on the left look like heroes, and the two on the right being the man and the skeleton look evil and balances out the good vs evil situation with one man in the middle suggesting that he is neither a hero or a villain.

Newspapers- categories

All newspapaers typically meet the following four criteria:

• Publicity- its contents are reliable and accessible to the public
• Currency- its information is both valid and up to date
• Periodicity- Its published at regular intervals
• Universality- It covers a range of different and new topics e.g sport and travel

Most newspapers are aimed at a broad spectrum of readers, usually geographically defined, some focus on a certain age group or a certain group of readers as defined by what interests them. Newspapers are categorised by how often they are published, for example they could be weekly or daily.

Daily

A daily newspaper is issued every day, sometimes with the exception of national holidays or Sundays. Saturday and Sunday editions tend to be larger and include more specialised sections such as adverts or certain stories. Generally the staff of the newspaper work monday to Friday, so the paper largely depends on the news during the working days of the week as well as what the news was on the Sunday which they can then publish on a Monday for example a natural disaster or a big story within sport. Most newspapers are published in the morning, this way the public have a longer period in order to buy and read the newspaper, and may want to read it on the train to work for example. Afternoon or evening papers are aimed more at office workers and commuters.

Weekly

Weekly newspapers are fairly common and tend to be smaller newspapers, which may be a big weakness of a weekly newspaper as the daily newspaper will provide a lot more stories and information and so people would rather read a daily newspaper in order to read and find out as much information as possible as to what is happening around the world.

National

Most nations have at least one newspaper that circulates throughout the entire country, a national newspaper as contrasted to a local newspaper serving a city or region. In the UK there are numerous national newspapers including, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Guardian. Large metropolitan newspapers have also expanded distribution networks and with effort can be found outside their normal area.

Newspapers

A newspaper is a regularly scheduled publication containing information, news, gossip and advertising. By 2007 there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a day. Newspapers generally publish stories on local and national events such as celebrities, sport events, festivals, strange happenings. Newspapers are generally structured in columns, with lots of text providing detailed reliable information as well as generally at least one image to go with the story, this is the part of the story that leaps out at the reader influencing them to read it. other features of a newspaper include; cartoons/comics, advertising, television listings and inserts from local companies and businesses trying to sell a product. Typically the main story is on the front whilst the back pages consist of sporting events that have recently taken place and sporting news. Newspapers share links with other types of media such as the internet and television, there are conventions of a website that can be found in a newspaper such as a web address, hyperlinks, similar format of information and possibly the same image, this is known as bricolage. There are lots of stories within a newspaper there could be as many as 100 stories or even more found inside, as there are generally around two or three stories on each page with around 60 pages per newspaper.

website- bbc sport

This website follows the conventions of other websites as it has the following characteristics;

• links
• back-links
• uploads
• website address
• hyperlinks
• a strap-line
• a header
• images
• video/s
• advertising