Article plannign sheet 1

Article Planning Sheet

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Article target audience:  The audience for my magazine is the audience I will suit each of my articles to. The magazine is for a certain Tribe called craft kids, these art mostly arty type students who like a slightly quirky style in clothing and this is why I thought my article was suitable.

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	This article is going to be a how to article and show people how to make a t-shirt step by step. It will be there as an activity for the audience to get involved with. It will make the magazine slightly more exciting.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	I’m going to do this article in first person because I think it sounds slightly more personal. It makes the article sound like a person is speaking to them. It creates a intimate connection with the audience.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	My magazine being for slightly more quirky people I think it would benefit from being slightly more informal because I think the audience would enjoy it more. It is also aimed at a lower socioeconomics group so it would be best suited more informal. It can also give it a slightly more comical sense to it. I also want to use slight taboo language.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	I will not have much repetition in my work because with my audience I don’t think they would find it clever I think it would annoy them and become quite boring for them. My magazine article will have Imperative verbs because it is a how to article it is telling them what to do and they have to follow it strictly to come out with a good end result. My articles will not use a lot of clever English because that will not apply to my audience they are not the sort of English students who enjoy reading a long piece. My article will be straight to the point.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	My magazine will have an up beat tone and will aim to keep the audience confident and intrigued. I would like my magazine to have a slightly sarcastic tone to it to make it slightly comical. I Will not touch on any depressing topics in this article.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	I want the pace of my article to be fast and up beat this will give the audience a pattern to read in and keep the article flowing. Also my audience being quirky and arty they will not want paragraphs to read, it will bore them and also the fact they can get involved with the article will keep them intrigued. It being instructions and a how to article it will be in small paragraphs for each step keeping them simple to follow.