The Saukville Examiner - Part 2 of 3 - Design

The design of The Saukville Examiner is as akin to a real newspaper layout as I could possibly make it.  There are four pages I produced in all - the Cover Page, which holds the largest story found within the newspaper - "Greywood Mansion Haunted;" a Local News page, which includes fake and real stories inspired by real events that really happened in Saukville the week of October 01, 1950; a World News page, which includes fake and real stories inspired by real events that really happened in the world the week October 01, 1950; and the Back Cover, which includes Letters to the Editor - commenting on occurences that happened that week, ads, and in very small print, newspaper credits - crediting the sources where I got all of my information from.

Below, I will link to the four full, high-resolution images of the newspaper, and also make some comments about each page.

Front Cover

One neat design element found on this page is the fact that the house pictured here is actually the Greywood Manor house.  It is also interesting to point out that the 1950's Electoral Shock article is a fake one, in that "Page 7" does not exist.  I only created pages 1, 4, 5, and 8.  The "Greywood Mansion Haunted" article does indeed continue on Page 4.


Local News

In this Local News page, I had some fun with the left and bottom border.  The page is designed to blend with Page 5, pictured next, because they are next to each other in the actual newspaper.  If you missed the detail, "SE" featured in the circular emblem stands for "Saukville Examiner."  The large one is merely for a unique design, but if you look closely, small ones end every article.


World News

I have to point out that I really love the globe design I used in the middle of this page.  It really has that old-world explorer's feel to it, perfect for the World News section.  Yes, all of these stories are real - either re-written by me, or taken directly from a source.  The photo of the young girl in the bottom left is indeed the girl the featured in the above story - Millie Millhiser!


Back Cover

I'd have to say that I had the most fun with this page - the Letter's to the Editor!  First off, notice that the "Letters to the Editor" banner across the top of the page is slanted slightly. This was intended, to showcase the fact that this is indeed a newspaper made in the 1950s without the aid of computer technology to help with the alignment.  The letters to the editor were written all by me, with most of them relating to stories that occurred to the townspeople during the week.  The cat that was supposedly lost, is actually a picture of the current cat I have - whose name really is Mintie.  A final note of interest, because of my love of the television series LOST, all the names of the people who wrote the letters in were minor characters found within the Dharma Initiative.