The main image of this front cover is quite gripping as anyone who would of knew Jade or was her fan etc. would be generally shocked by this image or anyone who didn’t know her would have also been shocked at the image. I think they would have achieved this reaction from the stark contrast from a black background shadowing very close to her head the quite a high key image used making the fact that she has no hair sand out as the full head is bright, which is unusual for a front cover of a newspaper. Although there are other small images they are very small and distanced from the main image, they also lack colour this is suggestive that although they are also stories (articles) featured in the newspaper they’re not too distracting then we automatically know the woman who takes up the majority of the cover is big news and what is important and is the main story of this newspaper. The layout of this cover I think is very effective as the bright red of the logo and the white and text section only takes up a small section and arguably looks irrelevant to the main story. The way the main image is placed I think is a good position to have it in the bottom corner as with the dark black and slightly framed by the headlines it seems totally detached from the rest of the newspaper. Again the colour scheme I think is effective as there is a big difference with the black and the bright image, to the dull section on the left side where the paper advertises other stories. Then to the logo part of the cover which takes up 1/5 of the page is again portraying brightness about the paper as the headlines and the other colours are sad and unhappy stories the brightness of the sun gives the audience/public the reassurance that buying this newspaper is still an enjoyable read. I think necessary information is placed rather well the main story is about Jade which takes up the majority of the centre of the page and the font that is used is bold and rather plain but it is clearly read and can be seen from a distance. I think the genre of this newspaper is quite open but compared to other national newspapers this one (the sun) is known more for entertainment eg. Real life stories like a take a break magazine etc.

Although I do think that the small text box in-between the main headline ‘jade: my cancer has spread’ is quite irrelevant and more conventionally would be found along the bottom of the page, as its distracting and takes attention away from the headline and image. although this may be the effect the editor wanted to achieve so the audience would read the first part of the story and want to read on.

Again with the font I think the logo that is used is conventional as it is issued in every sunewspaper and it is colourful and bold, it is also a recognisable logo which people will automatically go and pick up as it is advertised so much.