InDesign: Making the Newspaper

Now I have all of the components together of each section of the newspaper, I now need to compile it altogether to create my final newspaper.

To do this I will use the Adobe program, InDesign.

"Adobe InDesign is a software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books. Designers and graphics production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media." - Wikipedia.com

So I created two A4 pages for my newspaper. I added in all of my separate components, setting them out like I had shown in my final page designs.

I then needed to add the articles, headers and sub headers. So I had the articles saved in a word document, I then used text boxes in InDesign with the setting for four columns, and then copy and pasted my articles accordingly.

The font for my headers was Arial Black, which I used because it was very conventional of newspapers, and I had the headings all in capitals to attract the eye. A header is shown below for example:



The font I used for my sub headers was Arial Bold, I used this to still catch the eye, but not take away from the main header, this also shows that it is further to the header. An example is shown below:



Then for the main body of the articles I used Arial Narrow, I thought this was a good font to use as it is sans serif, which gives it a more modern and fresh look, which is the impression i wanted my paper to give. An example is shown below:



This shows the finished front page: