Lecture 2: Tell Factual Stories With Text

This week we had guest lecture Rod Chester from the courier mail come speak to us. He was a very animated speaker which made the lecture really interesting. My favourite part of the lecture was when he went through the all the different examples of how to begin a feature article that encourages the reader to continue on. A key point in his lecture was the inverted pyramid, which is the basic structure for news writing.

In this lecture he talked extensively about how to start a good feature article.

- The question intro - Starting it off with a question that intrigues the reader that you then proceed to answer

- Reverse psychology, rhythm/rhyme/reason, Sneaky Bastard (at first...) makes the reader what learn what changed, Set the scene, simple statements, the dumb question (asking a stupid question, who would of thought?, an observation, mystery, storytime, irony, what's next....?, the everyday.

- This was good going through all the different ways you can start a feature article to entice the reader to continue and how pivotal it is to whole story because without a good introduction that makes the reader actually want to read the article would be a failure.