The topic we had selected for our class project is about inadequate campus facilities in Hong Kong Community College due to the increasing number of students under merging of education system. We selected this topic because it has a close relationship with us and we had experience the impact of inadequate school facilities in person.
Our perspective to this topic
We set our role as HKCC’s Student Press which supports the students and our target readers are HKCC students. Student Newspaper provides the linkage function between students and the administrative person of the school and also acts as an important platform for schoolmates to share their idea, providing information and reporting school news. As we are the editors of HKCC’s student newspaper, we found that our selected news is newsworthiness. It is because appropriate environment and adequate school facilities such as computers, group study room are important factors affect students’ learning efficiency and effectiveness. Hence this news is directly related to HKCC students’ interest. We design the name of our newspaper as 「C人聲音」that represent the voice of Hong Kong Community College students. That’s mean every HKCC students have their right to express their personal opinions.
MMC concept applied in our newspaper
To attract our target readers, we make use of yellow journalism by designing some banner headlines, pictures and colour printing. Besides, we designed the headline as合併新舊制 學校設施「爭崩頭」,which the words「爭崩頭」serves to play up the problem through highlighting the serious impact of increasing number of students in HKCC.
We are providing the surveillance function to students and the school management as we divided the situation into three parts and used some photo that show the current situation of school campus, for example, long queue up for printing machines, crowded computer room. The selected photo is aim to explain the current situation of HKCC facilities, providing