Friday, 26 March 2010

REVISING WRITING AND LAYOUT TECHNIQUES THAT I CAN USE IN MY ARTICLE:

Register: A variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting e.g. using formal lanuage in an interview or using some slang when sending an e-mail to a friend.
Main Images: Largest photography/Picture
Typography: Style, Shape and Size of font
Intertextuality: References to existing texts
Cliches: Popular, overused pharses e.g. "Its better safe than sorry"
Copy: Written content/text
Sub-headings: Headings used to seperate text into sections for clarity.
Floating Quotes: Selected quotes taken from the body of the text for impact.
Additional Images: Smaller images accompying the text
Superlatives: Words used to express a superior quality or show something to be the best. e.g. the greatest
Closed Questions: Questions designed to elicit a "yes" or "no" answer.
Open Questions: Questions designed to prompt a longer more detailed answer.
Colloquialisms: Informal/ Slang terms
Standard English: Formal style of writing
Hyperbole: Exaggeration.

After reviewing these styles of writing, I decided that I will definately be using a range of open and closed questions in my article as it is an interview in order to get a range of answers. Also I will be using sub-headings. The questions that are asked to the main artist will be used as a sub-heading and would be seperate from the answer and stand out more to make it easy for the reader to glance through and read the answers to the questions that they are insterested in.
It will be important that I adapt the right register when creating the main article so that my audience can identy with the copy and the artist. Also, I will be using Floating Quotes in my article to make my article look more interesting at first sight before the article is read and it is conventional of most magazines.
When creating the layout of my magazine I need to consider particular features like additional imagery and the typography.

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