A personal presentation on School Paper Layout. Feel free to use it.

1. Mr. Noel S. Ortega
School Paper Adviser
The Central Point/Centreglipiks
Carmona Elementary School

2. Layout is the arrangement of the display
elements on a printed page: nameplate,
headlines, body texts, illustrations, photos, white
spaces and rule or column lines

3. Layout is referred to as make-up,
design, dummy, and plan.
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4. The personality of a newspaper is its make-
up. By all means, a newspaper should be
carefully laid out for the following reasons:
1. to
introduce
the
publication
to the
readers

5. 2. to attract the readers and lead them to read the
contents

6. 3. to give the paper distinct personality

7. 4. to show the relative importance of news and
feature materials

8. 5. to win in the contest.

9. Elements in the School Paper Layout
1.Types – for heads, kickers, blurbs and texts

10. Elements in the School Paper Layout
2. Illustrations –
consisting of
photos,
drawings,
graphs and
charts

11. Elements in the School Paper Layout
3. Color – either black and white, four colors or any
number of special colors or using percentage of
colors.

12. Elements in the School Paper Layout
4. Lines – borders,
boxes or simple
straight line to
create effects.

13. Elements in the School Paper Layout
5. Style – symbols, asterisk, dingbats, etc.
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14. Malipay Elem. School, Bacoor II
Gawaran Elem. School, Bacoor II

15. Maitim Elem. School, Amadeo
Adlas Elem. School, Silang I

16. Sta. Cristina Elem. School, Dasmariñas II
Sultan Esmael Elem. School, Dasmariñas II

17. Aniban Central School, Bacoor II
Potol-Sta. Isabel Elem. School, Kawit

18. St. Aloysius Academy of Dasmariñas
Salawag Elementary School, Dasmariñas I

19. Zapote Elem. School, Bacoor II
Jesus Good Shepherd School, Imus

20. Dasmariñas National High School, Main
Cavite Science High School, Maragondon

21. Alfonso National High School
Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School, Kawit

22. Saint Augustine School, Tanza
Woodridge College, Bacoor

23. Amaya School of Home industries, Tanza
Del Pilar Academy, Imus

24. New Era Natl. High School
Dasmariñas

25. Principles of effective layout
1. Harmony and Unity – to create an overall effect of coherence and
order (arrangement of texts/photos/types of headline). The content
of every page and of every double page should blend into a
harmonious unit. No one part of the page should overshadow
another.

27. Principles of effective layout
2. Balance – sense of equilibrium (symmetry in texts,
photos, graphics in horizontal or vertical direction)

28. Principles
of effective
layout
3. Emphasis –
arrangement and
weight of
importance. News
should be displayed
according to
importance.

29. Principles of effective layout
4. Proportion – the picture
must be sized
properly to keep up
with other shapes on
the pages. Square
cuts are desirable.
The length of the story
may ruin the
proportion of the
page.

30. Principles of effective layout
5. Movement – arrangement and weight of importance.

31. Planning the pages
 The standard format for a 12 x 18 tabloid is
six column. However, computerization has
enabled newspaper to vary the column
width considerably. A newspaper set in five
column is also good.

32. Planning the pages
 For a 9 x 12 or 8 ½ x 13 size, a four column
format is preferred.

33. The following hints for designing page 1
can be helpful.
1. Do not design a
page first and then
force the news to
fit in it. That will
destroy or distort
the news value of
the stories and
undermine one of
the prime
purposes of
design – to help
grade the news.

34. 2. Put the most important story or display
items at the top of the page.

35. 3. Avoid tombstoning
headlines. Use
display devices
such as pictures,
boxes, graphics,
even white space
to separate
heads, especially
if the heads are
the same size.

36. Note: Articles on a page can look like tombstones
also

37. 4. Place at least one
multicolumn
headline in each
quarter of the
page and the
center, if
possible.

38. 5. Use pictures
generously. If a
picture looks good
as a two-column, it
will look even
better as a three-
column most of the
time. Crop pictures
artfully. Do not
waste space.

39. 6. Put big pictures toward the top of the page, but do
not be afraid to use a big picture at the bottom as
well. Just make certain that the one at the top is
larger.

40. 7. Use multicolumn headlines at the bottom of the page,
even a banner. Be certain the banner’s type size is
not larger than of the main headline at the top of
the page.

41. 8. Do not be afraid to float the flag to give some variety
in make up, but always keep it close to the top of
the page.

42. 9. Don’t let subject in photograph based in
outside columns look-off the page, which
destroy unity.

43. 10. Run stories horizontally rather than
vertically whenever possible.

44. 11. Run related
stories in
the same
area on the
page.

45. 12. Vary the size of
body type and
the width in
which some
stories are set.
But do not
overdo it.

46. 13. Limit the
number
of one-
column
headlines
on the
page.

47. 14. Use a variety of headline sizes to give the
page contrast.

48. 15. Do not
let the
story run
out from
under the
headline.

49. 16. Vary your page design from page
to page.
17. Try a few surprises by ignoring
these hints from time to time.

50. Newspage Face
 Treat the facing page (page 2 and 3) as
only one page. Arrange or lay it out not a
separate page. Follow the procedures in
front page make up.

52. Editorial Page Face
 These pages should have a dignified,
distinctive and formal appearance. The
masthead or editorial box which should be
relatively small, maybe anchored in any
corner of the page. Editorial proper has
larger font. Heads or titles of editorials,
just like the headline of news story should
be of masculine appearance not the italic
or the script type.

54. Literary and Feature Page Face
 These pages must have a literary and
feminine appearance. The column are
often wider.

56. Sports Page Face
 This page has a bolder but more lively
appearance than other pages. Its make up
should suggest its content, action, speed
and color. Large bold heads even
streamers are used. Action pictures are
used.

58. Always remember
 Page make up is a matter of personal
taste. There are no absolute criteria for
laying out the page or pages of a
newspaper, therefore the layout artist may
experiment freely on page make up until
he gets the pattern that is acceptable to
him.

59. Always remember
 There are many forms of front page make
up. Its good to know them, but this does
not mean that the staff can’t devise its
own.

60. THANK YOU!
 Put a winnable layout in your school
papers…