On Friday 24th October, we were given Studio Brief 3. The brief involved us buying newspapers on Saturday 25th October and filtering out one story we liked the most, and looking at the same stories across various sources. This enabled me to observe trends and differences in different press. The deliverables were deadlined for 31st October which includes a body of research as throughly and varied as possible presented effectively.
Naturally every Saturday morning there are a few papers and magazines to read with our breakfast, however I took a trip to the shop and bought one we didn't have. A few stories caught my eye especially one mentioning the Queens first tweet which I came across in Saturdays issue of The Daily Mail, a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper.
I then immediately looked at this story online to see if it had varied. I looked at BBC news, and instantly I could see the change in layout and tone of voice however the picture used was the same, I slowly lost interest in this article. I therefore took a trip down to the local newspaper and bought a copy of The Sun, also a daily tabloid newspaper however it is published both in the UK and Ireland.
The front page I found hilarious, as it had a unflattering picture of Simon Cowell stating "I'M ALLERGIC TO COWELL", I instantly noticed the tongue and cheek manner the article used after finding it again on pages 4 & 5. I quickly scanned a few pages and then found the story about the queen again, however this article interested me a lot more as it was a completely different take on what I had initially read online on BBC News, as it only stated about the Queen making her first tweet to launch the science museum gallery, however the articles in both The Daily Mail and The Sun both stated the backlash after the tweet, where the Queen bombarded various abusive messages on twitter. As this was a different approach on the story, I instantly found it alot more interesting.
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