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Feature writing
Dr. Stephen ByersMarquette University
We start with a blank page
Everyone starts at the same place – with
nothing
A feature story is two things
1) A story, with all that entails
2) For a specific audience
The audience
Who will be reading your story?
The idea
What’s your story about?
Think about what you want
your story to say
In the beginning . . .
Write your article’s beginning as soon as you can.
This gives you a guide to the rest of the article, and gives you a touchstone for the remainder of your writing. See if when you get an idea you have enough to write a beginning.
How will you approach the story?
Plan, plan, plan
Issue Story
Issue Story
Next is research
Interviewing, studying, reading
Research means
• Using the Internet• Publications• Asking people• Walking around• Thinking
The basics
• Who• What• When• Where • Why• How
When do you know that you’ve got enough
research?
Points to think about
• Purpose of story• Narrator’s point of view• Dramatic question (or questions)• Choice of content• Clarity of Voice• Pacing• Soundtrack• Quality of images• Grammar and language
Points to keep in mind
• How is multimedia different from your written effort?
• How do you make it worth watching or clicking on?
• Are there different approaches you could use?
• Are you being fair to everyone – the characters, the audience, the story?
What type of story?• Personal? • Impersonal?
POV defines central premise of story
• It defines how YOU want a story to be told
First person works in video
Viewers identify with the narrator
Not always for printThe choice of narrator makes a
difference in the story we’re telling
But sometimes it obscures emotion
Show, don’t tell
Be able to describe your story in a single sentence
Describe your story in a sentence
Story arc
Story arc
Build in tension to hold your viewers
andreaders
Will they get
together?
Simple to show emotion
Not so simple
Be sensitive to everyone
• Our emotions• The audience’s emotions• Most important, the
subject’s emotions