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PRINT MEDIA PRODUCTION SESSION 7 - NEWSPAPER ANALYSIS - FEATURE ARTICLE



Continue your analysis of your newspaper in the following way.

 1. Find a FEATURE article or LEAD STORY. This should take up either most or the whole of a page or better still  is a DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD. Try and find a feature/article about something that interest you, even vaguely, otherwise your analysis will just end up as a load of moaning about how boring you find it.

2. Open up a new blogpost called NEWSPAPER ANALYSIS - FEATURE ARTICLE
Take a photo of your chosen feature/spread and put it into your blogpost under that heading.


3. Then perform a similar analysis of the feature as you did for the front cover.

(a) Firstly, in a 2-d sense tell me about the LOOK of it. LOOK at it, don't read it in depth yet. How is it laid out? Is it Picture-dominated or text-dominated? Is the headline font/typeface unique to that piece or used throughout the paper for headlines (sometimes headlines in gossip/sports sections can have different headline fonts than usual)? Does the font/colour/layout selection reflect the subject matter and the target audience? Are their sidebars within the article? What do they contain? Do they also reflect main subject/target audience?

(b) Secondly - ACTUALLY READ IT and tell me . . . who wrote it/who's got the byline? Are they an expert? Do they show that expertise in other articles online? Have they got a twitter profile? Can you check out who they are?  What’s the tone like? Formal/serious or informal/chatty? Anything make you laugh? Anything make you cross? What’s the language like? Easy/difficult to understand? What do you think – did it keep you entertained/would you advise other people read it, or do you think it was boring/ you could’ve done better?

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