Task 1 – LANGUAGE ANALYSIS (Blog Post)

Choose one of the double page spread articles below:

1. Biography 
2. Intro to a long read.
3. 10 Tips for Life
4. Q&A
5. New Band
6. Album Reviews
7. Interview

Use this document to help you unpick (analyse) the article and explore how the journalist is using language to create AIDA.

Your analysis should be between 350-400 words and should be typed into your blog along with a link to the article you’re analysing.

Task 2 – ARTICLE IDEA DEVELOPMENT (Blog Post)

1. Make a copy of this document, complete your notes and embed in your blog.
2. Develop a hook for your article which outlines  your approach.

‘A hook’ is a treatment for an article. It usually is part of the pitch that a writer or journalist will make to their editor before they are given permission to spend time writing the article.

The hook must include:

1. Who are you writing for?
2. What is important to your audience?
3. What news is currently trending?
4. How are you going to start?

Here is the full article on hooks for magazine articles.

Write the blog post on your plans for the article called Article Idea Development

Preparation for writing the article

Choose one of the following tasks:

• If it’s an interview you should develop a range of questions (and answers), which you can build into your article.
• If it’s a review of an album or a gig, you should develop some details of the event and elements to review
• If it’s a general article about a genre of music (10 Best…) you should do some research into the music and famous artists/albums.
• If it’s a biography piece you need to invent 5-10 interesting life events of your star / band that the audience want to know about.

If your article does not fit into one of these discuss your planning ideas with your teacher.

TASK 3 – DRAFT YOUR FEATURE ARTICLE (Blog Post)

• Transfer your ideas from the template and then re-edit, re-craft into a completed article.
  • Read it out loud and record on a voice memo MP3 and embed into blog.
• Submit for feedback from your teacher via classroom.
• Summarise feedback and targets from the teacher and your own recording.
• You can then redraft it for insertion into your DPS once designed.

EXEMPLAR

HERE ARE LINKS TO PREVIOUS STUDENTS’ WORK:

1. PERSONAL – ALBUM REVIEW WITH QUOTES
2. INTERVIEW