Mercredi 20 octobre 2010
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Bonsoir à tous,
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The Illustrated London News
Background
Year – Industrial Revolution
Cheaper and easier to make papers
More educated population
Papers for the masses
Month – Winter, a need for evasion
Huge mountains > Power
Sky and Light > Purity
India > Exotic place
Paper Name
London-based > Serious + National interest
News > Keeping in touch
Illustrated > More to see, less to think
Lay-out
Large banner
Standing-out
Sophisticated name design
Busy Thames, Compact City and Mighty Cathedral
Short text
No real headline
Story-like
Lord Elgin / India (link to illustration?)
Extra large illustration
Engraving > “invented” illustration (composition)
First impression: Far from the madding crowd in Almighty Nature
Second glance: Group of hunters / soldiers
Content
Artistic dimension
Visual art
Textual art > literary tone of the text
Link to reality? Representation of reality with a distance
Political dimension
“Lead story” on a Lord
About the situation in the British colony of India
Law and order
Religious dimension
St Paul’s Cathedral
Established church
Man/God in the illustration
Conclusion
Adaptation to public and circumstances
WWI – New York Times
Context
Time – 1918
Early 20th century
WWI
V Day
Space – USA
Outside Europe
Part of the Conflict
NY, major city
Media
Technological Progress (quick news)
Pre-Radio (paper only)
Biggest USA paper
Lay-out
Headline
Big (compare before)
Long (event- or NYT-related?)
No intermediate headlines
Text
Lay-out differentiation (font, space, etc.)
Grid-based (compare before)
Compact
Image
Total absence
Serious paper
Serious event
Interpretation
Fragmentation
No linear chronicle presentation
Different viewpoints
Team work
Hierarchisation
Newsworthiness degree
Simplified presentation
Quicker reading
Singularisation
Competitive context
All-in-one presentation
Demanding paper
To be compared with the Daily
Mail frontpage
Bien cordialement,
Bertrand Richet