Shropshire star essay

The shropshire star is a regional newspaper in the UK and it covers the whole of shropshire, herefordshire, parts of herefordshire, worcestershire, cheshire, the llangollen area and northern Powys in the UK. The newspaper is made, printed and distributed 6 days a week. The paper now costs 42p but has been cheaper in the past. The newspaper can be bought at almost every news-agent, supermarket or garage, this means that the paper is easily bought and read. The shropshire star has many editions, these including  county, south, north, west and east. The shropshire star also has many stories inside and this makes is very good value for money. It is also possible to pay for the paper to be delivered to your house 6 days a week and this furthers the interest as it is no longer an effort to buy and collect. The actual newspaper consist of many things, including stories, advertisements, jobs, venues and many others.
The shropshire star is owned by the Midland news association, which is a very well known company as they own many other newspapers and radio stations. The Midland news association has newspapers such as the shrewsbury chronicle and the Market Drayton advertiser.
The newspaper was also the first post war evening newspaper, this effected almost everything about the newspaper, its popularity, its stories, it style, it effected everything. Its first edition was released on the 5th October 1964. This also opened up for other opportunities for the newspaper, this included the chance to become a leading newspaper and very influential one. The Shropshire star then started to use a very more effective way of printing, this used a roller that had the images and text printed onto it and then the paper was simply passed over it, this ended up being a much more effective and cheap way of printing the newspaper than the standard hot metal typesetting, which had to have each letter placed into a mould and then printed out.
Another convention of the shropshire star is that it is a very popular website, it was the very first newspapers to have its own website and this made it very influential as the other newspapers had to try and keep up with the trend setting newspaper it has more than 180,000 people visiting it every month. The website also includes allot of additional information like stats on the amount of people that visit the website and the stats on its success , these are good additions to the website because it makes the newspaper look good, not only because of the actual stats but because of the effort they went through to find them out
The circulation of the shropshire star was more than 55,000 for january 2012. There is also allot of statistics on the audience that can be accessed through the website, these starts include the amount of adults, men, women and different age groups buy the paper and stats on what each person does, this includes how they get their newspaper. For example, The total readership was 139927 adults, 82% of these readers have their papers home delivered. With 71370 being Men and 68558 being Women. This information is not needed but it is nice to be able to see.The shropshire star is in a tabloid format, which is typically what a newspaper looks like. The paper is not considered a top end newspaper and for this you get a very good quality news paper. The newspaper nowadays is colour but it has not always been so, the first colour edition of the star was released in march 1967, this was a huge convention because it had never been done before, the picture could not have been more appropriate because it was one of the queen s she came to visit shropshire. The very large picture of the queen was very memorable.
Most of local newspapers front page headlines are big new that wont only effect the county, they are usually stories that effect the whole country, this adds importance to them and it makes the newspaper seem more legit. 

History of Slasher

A ' slasher ' is a sub-genre that originated from horror. They are similar to Horrors but they typically involve more graphical violence and gore. For instance not many slashers will have a clean kill involving a gun, they will have more gory kills including weapons like knifes, axes, chainsaws and many others that do not offer a quick easy death. Slasher movies have been around since the 1930's and you could say that ' Thirteen Women ' ( 1932 ) was the first ever slasher movie.

Halloween was a very successful slasher movie that was made in 1978 and directed by ' John Carpenter '. The film was seen as an inspiration and was said to have revived the genre of horror. This was surprising as the film had a very small budget and it was only supposed to be shown for a few weeks. Halloween was the most successful independent horror film of all time and as a result of this many sequels have been made of it. Considering the fact that there was no advertising campaign, Halloween did very well and has seriously written its name down in history. One thing that made Halloween so successful is the sense of reality in it, because the ' monster ' never showed his face, this really scared the audience as they dont know if there could be someone that they know like that. The concept of the movie was inspired by Hitchcock's ' Psycho' were the monster in the movie looked normal but was deeply disturbed inside.

Another of the most famous slashers of all time is ' Friday the 13th ' which was directed by Sean Cunningham in 1980, Friday the 13th is one of many classic slasher movies that have a plot that involves some sort of 'idiotic teenager '. The movie was a great success and this came as a surprise to many. There were also 11 sequels made and it became one of the biggest franchises of all time. The special effects used in this film were one of a kind and this was due to Tom Savini's work, he was the special effects and makeup artist for this movie and it is him we can thank for the memorable 'over the top' violence and images. Savini was always trying to improve his skills and for this he is known for pushing the boundaries of slashers. 'Friday the 13th' was also known for having a 'suckerpunch' ending, This is because at the end of the movie, jason jumps out of the water and kills a woman.

The next movie that i am going to talk about is 'Scream'. Scream was made in 1996 and it was an american slasher that was directed by Wes Craven. Scream was a very successful slasher and it followed the typical conventions of a modern day slasher. In scream, there are almost rules that have been passed down from slasher to slasher. Rule number one, dont say your going to be back and wonder of on your own, your going to die. Dont have sex because you will also die and it is always the innocent virgin that lives. These 'rules' have been passed down from slasher to slasher and they are still very noticeable in slashers made today. The bad guy in this movie was 'ghostface' his mask is now a very popular sight around Halloween time as he has made such an impact in the industry that he has become one of the scariest bad guys of all time. One of the most scariest things about this movie is that the killer does not just kill randomly, he choses somebody and toys with them before they die. Before the killer kills his victim, he calls them on their phone, when they pick up he asks them what their favorite horror movie is, when they answer he asks them question about it and if they answer incorrectly, they lose their life. This was one of the firs movies with this type of psychological effect and as you can imagine, this scared teenagers around the world because of the realism that this could happen to them. Three sequels have been made of scream and parodies have been made too. both slashers and parodies of slashers have become allot more popular since.

The texas chainsaw massacre was based on a real life killer, Ed Gein. Leatherface, the bad guy in the movie, scared everybody all around the world simply because of how disturbed he was. He was known for digging up corpses from graveyards and using their body parts to make furniture and to make items of clothing. The memorable mask made of another humans face was scary enough for most teenagers. This movie also did so well because it had already been advertised due to everybody already knowing about Ed Gein and what he had done.

A nightmare on elm street was made in 1984 and was directed by Wes Craven. This movie was considered very scary because the bad guy would not only kill his victims, but he would stalk them before to see if he wanted to kill them, this was considered very scary because it brought to light the possibility of stalking and showed how easy it would be. This movie was based on one of Wes's own memories, the idea came about when Wes was a child and he said that a man was standing outside his window staring at him for ages