Studio Breif 3 - Newspaper research

So today we got given Studio brief 3 and Simon explained what we had to do. We told us to go out on Saturday and grab a couple of newspaper, pick one story and research about it for Monday. We had to also try a pick a story that was interesting to use and that the same story was in a few papers so we could compare how a story is read, perceived and displayed around different papers.

So on Saturday, i went out and brought 3 papers. The sun, Daily Express and The Guardian. In the end i decided to for for the article about cosmetic tourism where a woman in Britain travelled to Thailand to get bum implants but ended up dying once under anaesthetic. My next step was to go and analyse the story and see how its been written on the newspaper.

Article from The guardian. I talked about how the title is very small along with the 4 column layout suggests the kind of audience who reads the guardian, upper, middle class. Also the use of information from Leeds university and the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (Bapras) who are all very reliable sources.

The suns article is pretty disrespectful of the victim who died. The huge title and the limit supply of information just tells me that their audience is lower class and has the attention span of a gold fish. Also labelling the man as a butcher and getting there sources from a trip advisor review. So comparing this article with the daily express and the Guardian is complete contrast to each other.

Article from the Daily express, the use of 2 images instead of one is different from the other articles. This article is pretty similar to the Guardian, the san-serif typeface, the 4-column layout and gathering information from reliable sources. However apart from the massive title, which shows that there audience is sort of similar to The Guardians but no as low as the Suns.