Article Plan: Project Romania

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	The purpose of this article is to inform, explain and inspire. The secondary purpose will be to entertain, as it is a magazine article and therefore must entertain the reader.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	As this article is a narrative account of a trip, it will be written completely in first person. However, I may do a breakout box that includes some 2nd person pronouns to directly address the reader. I will not use third person because it is much more trustworthy, direct and personal if it is written in first person, as it shows real experience. I will also be able to share thoughts and emotions with my audience this way.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	As I want to bond with my audience, I will be writing with an informal register. I think this way it will seem more personal and inspiring, as they will be able to connect and relate to the writer. Throughout the whole magazine I will be avoiding colloquialisms as it is a national magazine and I feel this may limit my audience. I don’t feel like this article is an exception to this personal rule for Gap Year. The same with taboo language: I do not feel that it is necessary and I will avoid it as much as possible.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	I want to create lots of variety in my writing; therefore I will include lots of different sentence types. Complex and compound will be popular, as these allow me to incorporate lots of descriptions in to this article. I imagine that the majority of the sentence functions in this article will be declaratives. This is because the article will be statements: stating what happened. Some interrogatives may also be used: to question the audience, to make them think about weather volunteering like that is for them. I feel questions will connect with the audience, and make it seem like a conversation, as opposed to an article.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	As I would like to maintain an informal register I think it is fitting for this article to have a slight ‘matey’ tone to it. However, with the issues at hand in this article, I don’t think lots of sarcasm is appropriate. Some may be just to entertain the audience. I think that this tone will lowers the formality, which was what I wanted. I will not like to hector my audience at all, I want to make sure my audience do not think I am pushing them to see my point this article.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	As this article will potentially be very text heavy, I want to split it up with sub headings, this will make it more attractive to the reader, as the text will be broken up. I will be shortening my paragraphs, again to the article does not appear to be too text heavy.

Article Plan: Do’s & Don’ts of Teen Holidays

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	The purpose of this article is to inform, explain and warn. The secondary purpose will be to entertain, as it is a magazine article and therefore must entertain the reader.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	As I will be including examples of ‘disaster holidays’ that I found out about in my research, I will be using a lot of the third person voice. However I want this to appear conversation-like therefore I will be using the first person narrative voice to create a bond with the audience. I feel that this way I am mixing the mode of the text, making the written piece seem more like speech. I will be using some second person language also, as I will want to use it to address my audience directly. For example I may want to say: “and you wouldn’t want that to happen”.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	As I want my article to seem conversation like it will be an informal piece. However it will be centred around some issues that need to be addressed seriously, however I will still like to maintain an informal register if possible. Throughout the whole magazine I will be avoiding colloquialisms as it is a national magazine and I feel this may limit my audience. I don’t feel like this article is an exception to this personal rule for Gap Year. The same with taboo language: I do not feel that it is necessary and I will avoid it as much as possible.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	There is already an essence of repetition and alliteration in the title of this article. It also provides the audience with binary opposites and opens up for different opinions. I think this will open up each side of the article (the ‘do’ side and the ‘don’t’ side) and I will be able to use strong and opposing adjectives on both. I feel that I will include a range of sentence types and lengths. Minor sentences will create an abrupt tone and may create some suspense in this article. Therefore I think I will include them, minor sentencing is also a non standard sentence type, lowering the formality of my article. I feel like this article will contain lots of facts as to give two sides to the story, therefore it will contain plenty of declaratives and exclamatives. I feel that some parts of the article may be statistical however, not to the point that it is boring for the readers.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	As I would like to maintain an informal register I think it is fitting for this article to have a ‘matey’ tone to it. I think that some sarcasm will be appropriate: for example when talking about the dangers of teen holidays “and we would obviously love a holiday filled with tragedy”. I think that this tone also lowers the formality, which was what I wanted. However I do not want to appear aggressive and will balance the sarcasm with the ‘matey’ tone. I will not like to hector my audience at all, I want to make sure my audience do not think I am pushing them to agree with me in this article.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	I would like to make this article as open as possible, and to present the facts to my audience for them to make up their own conclusion, therefore I don’t think I should provide one for them. The paragraphing will probably be short as the longer the paragraphs the more text it appears, and I want this article to be attractive to all of my audience.

Article Plan: Fundraising 101

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	The purpose of this article will primarily be to inform, but also to entertain as this is a magazine that needs to draw in consumer’s loyalty.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	I will be using all three narrative voices at some point in my article, as they all serve a purpose. I need to address my audiences directly therefore I will be using second person narrative voice at times “you could...” I will be using third person narrative voice when referring back to the surveys and small interviews I have conducted. I will be using first person to draw upon my own experiences, making the piece reliable as they will know that the journalist writing the piece has experienced this first hand.
Register (Informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	I will be writing in an informal tone, as I want to bond and make a relationship with my audience.  I won’t be using colloquial language, as I think that this will make it difficult for a national audience to read and understand. I will avoid taboo language as I need to restrict myself to the client limitations set by the Northern Echo.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	I may try to use some repetition and alliteration to make the article flow more and to make it more journalistically skilled. It will also make it more fuin to read, in my opinion, and will stick in to the audiences mind more. My sentencing will vary as they all have different functions: short sentences will create an abrupt feel or will create some enigma. It is also non standard, therefore it will make the text seem more informal. I think that the majority of my sentences will be declaratives, as I will be stating things that have happened or anecdotes of peoples fundraising experiences. I think some exclamatives will be appropriate here and will liven up the article.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	I don’t feel that the content of this article will require the use of a sarcastic tone, therefore I think I will avoid it. In all other sections of planning I have stated that I would like to create an informal relationship with my reader, therefore I would think that a ‘matey’ tone would be appropriate in this case. I don’t feel like the topic of fundraising will require irony in the article, therefore I don’t think there is any need for me to include it.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	I would like to keep my paragraphs short, as when text is presented in small columns paragraphs appear bigger as opposed to a piece of text on a page that isn’t reduced to columns. I think that this will attract my audience into reading this article. As my article will mainly be based on other peoples stories and is more of a ‘how to’ article I think that it will be set out differently to standard prose articles.

Contingency Plan:

What could go wrong during production	How are you going to avoid this issue? What’s your back up plan?
If my model is not available for whatever reason on the day of the photo shoot.	I will make sure I meet with the models a few days before the shoot to discuss a meeting point, transport to the studio the time of the photo shoot. If the model were to be ill on the day I will insure I have a back up model.
If when I am doing my final double page spreads etc the computer crashes and I lose my work	I will save several different copies of my work along the way and make sure that after every change I make I save my work.
If I was to lose or break my memory stick	I will never transport the only copy I have on a memory stick. I will save it on a computer and I will e-mail a copy to myself.
The images that I have taken from the photo shoot are out of focus or aren’t good quality	Check every image I take on the camera as soon as I take them, do not delete any images from the camera until I have looked at them all on the computer. I will make sure I take as many pictures as I can in the time I have booked at the studio to make sure I will be getting the most out of my pictures.
Loosing props that were needed for the photo shoot	If you want to use a prop then make sure it is in a place where you will not lose it or no-one else will take it. I would however have some props as a backup in case this happened.
Planning a complicated photo shoot which will mean that setting the shot up takes so much time that you only have a small amount of time to do the photo shoot and only get a few pictures.	Ask the studio to set up your shot earlier than the time I have allotted for the shoot. Although I will try to avoid planning an over complicated shoot as I think this is unnecessary.
Not having the font you have been using when on a different computer to usual.	I will make sure that I save my font on a memory stick and that I have e-mailed it to myself also so that I can put the font into the computer systems from any computer.
Taking photos in my photo shoot and when I put them with my article realising that they do not match the content of the article	Make sure that I do a photo shoot plan and that I plan it around my article. Look at my flat plans and make sure I know what images match my articles. I should write my articles before the shoot so that I know the tone of the article and therefore know what images to go for.
An interviewee is not able to do the interview at a scheduled time/cancels.	I will be making sure that I have a back up story or interviewee in case this happens. I will try to arrange another time with the first interviewee but if for some reason this is impossible I will have a back up.
Personnel not showing up on the day	I will make sure that they know the date and time, and will meet up with the personnel and models a couple of days before. If they have any other commitments they should tell me on that day and I will find a replacement.
Cameras running out of batteries	I will bring extra batteries and another camera to the shoot to make sure that there can be no faults.
External shoots planned there is bad weather	I will check weather forecasts for the planned day, but as there will be no booking fees for outdoors I could reschedule. This would not be ideal and depending on how bad the weather was I may incorporate it into my shoot (if it wasn’t too bad).

My Pitch: