by a media student

1. The way in which relations between addresser (writer), and
addressee (target audience), are constructed.

2. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/19/donald-
trump-threatens-totally-destroy-north-korea-un-speech

3. On the online newspaper website The Guardian, to find the article you must
either search the headline, or use the browse genre buttons, but this may take
longer to find as other stories about different things are added frequently. The
article is found here because the “what” is about politics of the World, but the
“who” is about the American president Donald Trump. The fact that it is about a
president, means it can easily be classed as a politics article, but it is more a world
issue than a politics issue which is why it is under “world”.
Search bar
Browsing genres buttons

5.  Instead of calling him the President of the US, or Trump, they
used his full name.
 The Guardian quotes trump saying that he threatened to “totally
destroy” North Korea, this is to highlight the point of the article.
This is evidenced with the video below the headline.
 In the headline they also use the word ‘threatened’ which is a
strong word to use, the definition of the word threaten is having
a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner.
 The fact that the article is referencing Donald Trump and his
threats to “totally destroy North Korea” attracts an audience, this
is because Donald is a terrible president and people want to see
his latest mishap, it also makes teens want to read it as teen
humour has turned Donald Trump into a ‘meme’.

8.  The article seems quite formal so there doesn’t seem to be any slang in the article, there
are also no expletives in the place of where a bad word could be as there are none. There
are none in the videos and images that are displayed in this article.
 The article seems to be written in lots of short paragraphs each consisting of only one or
two sentences, with only a few having three. But even with all the paragraphs, it makes
the article seem more pleasing to read and manages to stay organised which may also
help people to read, this is a good way to get more people to read it.
 The article is written in third person which means it is not directly from the writers’ point
of view, this is because the article is about someone who the writer didn’t directly speak
to or come into contact with as they are analysing a speech that Donald Trump, performs
in response to an event.
 The Target Audience is most likely aimed at adults 21+ this is because it is an article about
politics and not many kids and teens are that interested in politics.
 The main influence for this type of media appears to be politics. Considering that
Donald Trump is in politics and is one of the most powerful men in the world, so when
Donald Trump threatens a hostile country to the USA, there will be a lot of news about it.
 The article is more informative and seems to be like a discussion rather than for leisure so
it not filled with images and videos, it only appears to have one of each, which is another
reason why teens and kids may not be a part of the target audience here.

10.  The article is rather scarce of images and videos, only having one
of each, but this is only to be expected considering the article is
more informative. Both the image and the video are relative to
the topic;
 The video is important because it contains the part of the speech
relevant to the actual news story in focus. The Guardian will have
had provided this video as evidence for what they are trying to
say.
 The image is a picture of a few politicians with a caption “The
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu (centre), was one of
the few to applaud the US president’s stance on the Iran nuclear
deal.” This leads us to believe that the majority of the politicians
present thought of Trumps plans as a bad idea and gave him no
praise, and only a few politicians thought otherwise.

11.  In the first half of the article, the speech mainly
focuses on what Trump alone said, but as we go along
more quotes about what other presidents and
politicians had said about Trump’s speech, some with
him and some against him.

12. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/travel/adventure/481522/Amazing
-caves-in-Mexico-artist-lived-25-
years?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.out
brain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbr
ain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain

13.  On the online newspaper website The Daily Star,
the article can be found under travel and
adventure. This is travel because it is in a different
country and adventure because it is in a cave away
from a town/city.

15.  The article says “Man spent 25 years in this cave”, to a
reader this would suggest he would never leave the
cave and implies he lived in the cave for 25 years. This
makes the headline seem exaggerated for
sensationalism.
 The headline also says “you won’t believe what’s
inside”, which makes people want to read it more as it
engages the reader leaving them wondering what
could possibly be in the cave, making them want to
find out and then leads them to reading the entire
article.

17.  The text in this article seems quite formal as there is no swearing, slang or any
other informal words in the article.
 The are no proper paragraphs in this article as most of them barely exceed one
line. This may be due to most of the article being explained in the video at the
start.
 The article is written in third person as there are no uses of “I” or “me” etc. Even
though there is a video on a interviewer interviewing the artist in the video,
this doesn’t effect the article.
 The article is most likely aimed at a niche audience of people into art as the
cave has been converted into a massive piece of art.
 The main influence of the article appears to be art as the cave is all artwork.
 The article seems to be informing us in a nice excited kind of way as if the
reporter is shouting “oh my god guys!! Get this!! This is Incredible right?!?!”
which means it is not a serious issue and more of a story for general interest.
This may be why the main content of the article is images and a video with only
a small amount of text in the article.

18.  The main content of the article appears to images,
with a video lasting over 5 minutes explaining the
story in more detail than the article itself which may
explain why not much text is in the article.
 There are lots of images about the cave relative to the
story and a slideshow of others.
 The fact that the majority content is made up of
images means that the article is more for leisure rather
than informing news.

19.  In the article, there is a video interviewing the cave
artist, but the small amount of text in the article keeps
things simple quoting the artist only a few times to
what he said in the video

21. Similarities Differences
Both articles are in third person. The genre for The Telegraph’s article
is politics and world. Whereas the
genre for The Daily Star’s article is
Travel and Adventure.
Both articles are formal. The target audience for The
Telegraph’s article is most likely
adults 21 and older, whereas The
Daily Star’s article is aimed at
whoever is into art.
Both formats are similar as they both
go, Headline, video, text, images text.
The Daily Star’s article has more
images and less text, whereas the
Telegraph’s article has more text than
anything else.
Both articles are expected to be
formatted as they are in relation to
their genres.
The Telegraph uses one image to
show someone who is reacting to
Trump’s speech. Whereas the Daily
Star’s article uses multiple show just
how good the art cave is.