Sunday, October 5, 2008

Journalism

The Technique of Narration

*Scene Re-creation
  • Capturing sights, sounds, and smells
  • Using your senses to recreate
  • "Weave facts into a story" for the readers to see & hear events as they unfold

*Dialogue

  • Using a conversation between 2 or more people
  • Readers listens to the characters that the reporter recorded; characters talk to each other
  • Difference between quotes & dialogue-source tells reporter who tells reader (quotes) & reporter records conversation (dialogue)

*Foreshadowing

  • Giving hints about what is coming
  • Every lead should foreshadow the story
  • With foreshadowing, you are promising a good story

*Anecdotes

  • Stories embedded in stories
  • Illistrates a point to inform & entertain the reader
  • Illistrates a point
  • Remembered more than anything else in the story

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