GCSE Media Coursework
The use of images on a front page has a number of functions: firstly it effectively communicates to the reader exactly and immediately what their most important story is today. It also illustrates the story so readers can visualise what is being told and sympathise for the situation, and thirdly they make the page more interesting, by breaking up the text and can often convince the reader to buy the newspaper. I have used a picture of the victim in my story so that readers can see how happy he was before the incident and sympathise for the family. I also used the picture of him being rushed into hospital on a stretcher so the readers can see the damage and emergency of the situation and most probably get quite an emotional response from them.
