Article Planning Sheets

DPS 1 – Match Report (Spraire Envy Last Ditch Goal)

Article target audience: 10-50 year olds, male/female.

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	This article will be in the sport genre with my magazine being based on football. The purpose of this article is to entertain due to the fact the readers will be attracted by the match report, showing great pictures of the match in focus through descriptive text and plenty of images. The secondary function of this article, however, is to inform, as I will be informing my target audience of what happened in the match.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	This article will be written in the third person from an omniscient character as this is generally the narrative voice of all match reports.
Register (Informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	With the match report, I feel like I should create a formal piece, as the data is obtained through factual events. As well as this, my target audience will be reading the report for the sole purpose of gaining information on the match. Due to this, my register will consist of phatic language as I want to get straight to the point. No taboosims will be used in my magazine at all because of the target audience reaching young children, and these words could be offensive to the adults too.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	For this article I will be using plenty of adjectives to describe the game as a thrilling match. I will do this because it will engage my target audience, whereas I could use very little adjectives and create a boring text. To also engage my audience I will use metaphors to describe how the ball moved, or how someone ran to give the text a much more dramatic sense. On top of all of this I will use a lot of positive lexis to promote grassroots football subtly. A rule of three will be adopted in this text to represent the fast-paced moments of the match, as this short, concise technique will offer a lot of data, and be read quickly due to its syntax.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	Due to this article being a formal text, a tone of address will not be necessary as the article will not be engaging the audience through rhetorical questions or references to the reader. Terms such as ‘matey’ will not be needed at all as the focus of the text will be the match.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	The pace of my article will be dependent on the events of the match. For example, at the beginning of the article it will be slow paced and very neutral, whilst further into the article, it will become much more fast paced in certain areas to represent the emotion and pace of the game in focus. To do this I will use triplets and strong adjectives.

DPS 2 – Interview (Kids are wrapped up in Cotton Wool)

Article target audience: 30-50 year olds, male/female.

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	The main purpose of this article is to give an insight into the life of a coach. As well as this, the interviewee is a single parent of two children, so his challenges will be interesting. The article will be majorly based around the interviewee’s life in terms of his children, him as a football coach, and him as an American football coach, with slight glimpses into his past too, as he almost made it as a professional footballer. Due to this, the main purpose of this text is to inform, however, it will also hold elements of an entertainment purpose as it will need to engage the target audience.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	The article will constantly switch between the first and third person, as in some parts of the article, it will be written from the perspective of the author, for example ‘Darren was always a fan of coaching…’ and, the first person in which will be written from the perspective of the interview, representing that of direct quotes from the interview, for example, ‘I’ve always enjoyed coaching really …’.
Register (Informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	The article will not be pinned down to just one register, with the text occasionally representing informal techniques amongst a majorly formal presentation. However, the use of colloquialisms will be of much use as the interviewee is from the North East, and his idiolect is most likely to contain language features from such area. I feel that these will help engage the audience as it doesn’t separate the interviewee from everyday life, but shows him (the coach) as the same as everyone else, as in grassroots football. Parents tend to be very anti-coaches when their child doesn’t get played, or the coach makes a negative, but needed statement. No taboosims will be used in my magazine at all because of the target audience reaching young children, and these words could be offensive to the adults too.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	Despite the interview having not yet been conducted, I expect repetition to be a greatly use technique as it can add power and emotion to the article. However, adjectives can also do this, but I highly doubt they will be of vast use, as the interview is likely to be very long and will have to be concise. In terms of stylistics, there will be no major creativity in terms of language, but there will be in terms of imagery and graphics.
Tone of address (Hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc.)	My interviewee tends to be a rather professional person, with a good grasp of standard English; therefore, in the circumstances of an interview about his job, I feel that he will offer rich, formal qualitative data. However, I do tend to be rather close with my interviewee, and this could extract some lexical choices such as ‘mate’ and less formal language to create a more personalised article, potentially engaging and enticing the audience into his life.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	The structure of this interview article will tend to be rather creative but also organised in a way that it will follow a chronological order of events regarding my interviewee’s life.  However, I do need to ensure that the foreground of this article is presented within the first few paragraphs; therefore using the first two paragraphs to talk about the interviewee’s coaching style etc. I plan to link the first two and last two paragraphs, whilst the middle content of the article will focus around his life, I will ensure that the beginning and latter stages of my article will be majorly based around coaching.

DPS 3 – Review (COACHING WEEKLY – See it, Do it.)

Article target audience: 15-50 year olds, male/female.

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	The purpose if this article is to offer my personal opinion on a coaching drill. This type of article will be a generic feature of my magazine, with a different coaching drill each week. This article will follow not only my views, but that of players, and other coaches, using a breakout box to represent another coaches’ view on last weeks’ coaching drill. The main functions of this article are to advise, and inform.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	This article will flow between the first and second person narratives to ensure that while I maintain the article is based on my personal opinion, it is also engaging the audience for their opinion, and offering advice.
Register (Informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	Coaching tends to be a very serious topic for many people, because if they are going to do something, they want to do it properly, therefore I will ensure that my article uses a formal approach, with some elements of informal language, where I may use scenarios to explain what could go wrong with the drill. However, this is the only form of informal text I will use, as I will avoid the use of colloquialisms and taboosims. No taboosims will be used in my magazine at all because of the target audience reaching young children, and these words could be offensive to the adults too.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes)	Due to the structure and layout of this article, repetition, adjectives, similes, and metaphors will be of no use. To style of this article will be a plain and simple text that does what it is set out to do.
Tone of address (Hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc.)	The tone of address will tend to be plain and simple, using the common pronoun of ‘you’ to represent the interactional language I will use when engaging the audience into the article.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	The article will be very organised through the use of subheadings such as ‘Outcomes’ and ‘Disadvantages’ as this will help break up the article making it much more easier to read. As for the older pole of my target audience, they may just want to skip to a certain aspect of the coaching drill; for example, they may just want to get an insight into the potential problems of the drill, rather than learning how to conduct it, as they may also know.