You will be required to produce a feature of between 1,500-1,600 words using one of the following features styles:- A multi-voice featureThis can be a case study, a read through or a mix of both (a read through with one case-study as a sidebar)Your multi-voice piece must include at least three relevant interviews that helps the reader understand a range of perspectives.- A profile interviewIf you choose this option, you must have an interview subject worthy of the profile treatment. This may be that they are well known to the public (or on their way to being well known). This does not necessarily mean tracking down the next Hollywood star, but thinking about people who are high-up in their profession, sport, special interest etc. Or perhaps someone who has done / lived through something out of the ordinary whose story is worth telling.You can aim high – our students have interviewed Usain Bolt and Tom Holland – but there are plenty of more local people who are doing amazing things that warrant an interview.For this assessment you can choose which magazine / digital brand your piece is written for (Cosmo, Men’s Health, BBC History, Vice etc) and students are encouraged to try writing for an audience that is not student-based to prepare them for writing for the different audiences they will encounter in their magazine brands in Semester 2. However, the story comes first. The main thing is to have a good idea and great voices.Whichever publication you choose, make sure your piece is appropriate for that brand and relevant for their readers.Each piece must be presented like this: Publication: (Give the name of the magazine you are writing for)Head: (Write your headline)Sell: (Write your sell – this will be explained in workshops)Copy: (This is the main body of your piece)At the end please write the word count. If you have any sidebars then please leave them until the end of the main copy and present them like this:Sidebar: And then give the sidebar subhead NOTE: At the end of each feature, please also include a list of the interviews you have conducted yourself with the name of the interviewee and date and time of interview. It is difficult to estimate how much time you will need to devote to your work. Features can be done quickly – you may be lucky and have the ingredients for a 1,500-word feature in your notebook within a few hours. Equally, you may find some contacts elusive and ambitious projects can take hours of work, but are worth it when they come off.You may re-write copy in the light of feedback given by the tutor, which can be given on any piece once. Feedback can be given in workshops, office hours and, where the timetable allows, feedback sessions. However we can’t work miracles if you leave it all until the last minute. It is up to you to have your copy ready for feedback sessions, workshops or office hours. Please be aware that your deadline is in January and it is up to you to show your draft articles to tutors before you break up for Christmas. Tutors work hard to help, but need their Christmas too.
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