2. Headline- biggest text,
title of article, tells you
what the story is about
Standfirst- slightly bigger than main
body of text, gives abit more info about
article, second thing that grabs
audienceâs attention
Byline â author
of article,
wrote the story
Drop cap- usually drops 4
to 5 lines, purpose is to
say, this is start of article
Cross head is missing â
this is used to separate
the article, usually in
bold text
Photographerâs credit
Main image- majority of the time, a DPS has one main
image, it is anchored to coverline and headline
Picture caption
Pull Quote â pulls
up the text
3. This biography will help me decide what to write for my article, I have to decide whether I want to choose a free flowing article or
a question and answer article. A free flowing article is descriptive and is in detail about the person and my own emotions as a
journalist, a Q&A is just a question and answer type article.
4. Analysis of free flowing article
⢠Since graduating from Hogwarts, the decidedly unstarry Daniel Radcliffe has played devils, confused poets and, now, Frankensteinâs
hunchbacked sidekick. Olly Richards meets Britainâs oddest film star.
⢠Fame teaches you many things: how to outrun paparazzi, how to respond to mobs of fans, how to endure a breakfast TV interview without
screaming. It does not, apparently, prepare you for the complexities of making coffee. Bouncing into a huge wood-panelled conference room
above the photography studio where heâs just been shot for NMEâs cover, Daniel Radcliffe is presented with a cup and reaches for the
sweeteners. âHow many of these are you supposed to use?â he asks, merrily clicking little white pellets into his drink. Each of those is one
sugar, we tell him. Youâve just given yourself seven sugars. âOh, right,â he laughs. âWell, weâll leave that then.â This gives me the impression
that Daniel Radcliffe has a sense of humour to him, judging by the way he responds to the interviewer.
⢠You half-expect Daniel Radcliffe to have an entourage of people to dispense his sweeteners for him. He is stupidly famous. Playing Harry
Potter, he led one of the biggest film series in history to take over ÂŁ5billion at the world box office. He is worth, according to the Sunday Times
Rich List, around ÂŁ69million. He should be swaggering around in furs, eating swans and doing drugs off antique mirrors. But Radcliffeâs the
antithesis of all that. He is not like other movie stars. We donât mean that in the usual clichĂŠd way, as when a celebrity profile declares its
subject âdown to earthâ because they ate carbohydrates and werenât paraded in on a throne. Daniel Radcliffe is odd. Good odd. He is Britainâs
weirdest film star and we love him for it.
This gives me the impression that Daniel is humble, as he does not show off his wealth to the public eye.
⢠Dean Chalkley/NME
⢠Consider the evidence: Since Potter ended, his roles have included a haunted lawyer (The Woman In Black), a man turning into a devil (Horns),
a singing corporate climber (How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, on stage), a sexually confused beat poet (Kill Your Darlings)
and a doctor who has imaginary conversations with his older self (The Young Doctorâs Notebook). Then thereâs his latest role in Victor
Frankenstein, his first studio movie since Potter. He plays Igor, the otherworldly, hunchbacked assistant in an imagined origin story that details
the peculiar early experiments of young Frankenstein (played by James McAvoy). These are the career choices of a burgeoning indie actor, not
a man so famous he has his own Lego range and has been parodied on The Simpsons.
⢠âNo, I donât really have mainstream tastes,â he says. âPeople do ask me, âWhy do you choose such weird movies?â but I donât think theyâre
weird, theyâre just stories Iâm interested in. Isnât having weird tastes good, though? I think so. I think thatâs better than always wanting to play
the handsome hero. You think Iâm weird? Iâll take that.â This tells me that Daniel is not like the other actors as he prefers having a variety of
different roles in his movies, which is what makes him so popular.
⢠Radcliffe is handsome but in quite a normal way â he has what your mum might call âa nice faceâ â which means heâs not obvious leading man
material, and at around 5â5â, heâs a bit small to be an action star (though that never stopped Tom Cruise). Today, dressed all in black and with
his hair sharply cropped as a souvenir from a recently completed role in Imperium, playing an FBI agent posing as a neo-Nazi, he should look
intimidating. Yet heâs so effusively cheerful that he just looks⌠tidy. Heâs 26 now, but clean-shaven, he could pass for much younger. Heâs got
a character actorâs face, which means he can do those strange lead roles your more traditional leading man couldnât.
⢠âI had a huge amount to prove [after Potter],â continues Radcliffe. âProving that you can be a young actor and not be a complete fucking
disaster when you grow up. That is the â quite unfair I think â image that people have of young actors. There are a huge number of child
actors who grow up fine. Always with my career in film, I saw Potter as an amazing beginning to it. Iâm sure Iâll never hit that kind of
commercial peak again but very, very few people will.â
5. ⢠Dean Chalkley/NME
⢠He doesnât, however, agree that coming back to studio films is a sign heâs ready to accept being âa big dealâ again. âNo,
although thatâs a nice theory,â he smiles. âThereâs no significance to it. Doing studio movies is fun because you get to do
stuff that you mostly wouldnât get to do on an indie movie, in terms of action. There is a part of me that, because I grew up
doing it, loves that stuff and really misses it. Frankenstein was just the most interesting and original script Iâd seen from a
studio. It looked like fun to make, and it was.â
⢠It is, as rollicking blockbusters go, smarter than most, playing with ideas of science vs religion, heart vs mind, while also
finding room for a fight with a zombie monkey. âIt doesnât take itself too seriously, but it has a nice intellectual debate at the
heart of it,â says Radcliffe.
⢠This tells me that Daniel actually analyses his role in detail, seeing how original and crazy the movie is.
⢠For someone who has lived with press intrusion since the age of 11, Radcliffe is an open interviewee. What was he into as a
kid? âThe Simpsons⌠but I was also obsessed with Yes, Minister.â The 1980s sitcom that was made before you were born?
âYes!â He puts his hands on the arms of his chair, as he does whenever heâs about to launch into a subject that really excites
him. âI used to watch that every night before I went to bed when I was about 15. I still think itâs one of the best British
sitcoms ever⌠And one of my favourite films is A Matter Of Life And Death, with David Niven⌠He has to go to court in
Heaven. Itâs sweet and funny but so weird.â These are the kind of references youâd expect from someone twice Radcliffeâs
age. He shrugs. âI like things that do whatever the fuck they want at all times.â This tells me that he prefers classic shows,
⢠Radcliffeâs frankness extends to discussing more personal matters, which in the past have included losing his virginity to an
older woman and problems with alcohol, long since given up. Most recently, in an interview with Playboy, there was the
surprising admission of masturbating during the production of Harry PotterâŚ
⢠âWhat?â he says, confused, but not angry. âI didnât say I wanked on set!â
⢠He gets out his phone to find the interview, which doesnât take long as there are many, many Google hits. âOh God,â he says,
flopping back in his seat. âItâs frustrating when you tell a story and say, âYes, I wanked a lot when I was a teenager,â but
clearly I didnât mean on set.â He straightens up in his seat. âCan you make this clear for me: I was not wanking during the
filming of Potter â I managed to restrain myself until I got home.â Consider the matter closed. Letâs wash our hands of it, so
to speak. This is another sign that shows that Daniel has a sense of humour, as he says he restraine dhimself till he got
home.
⢠Radcliffe wears his fame lightly, remembering a key incident from the height of Pottermania. âI was at Reading Festival and I
was standing behind a guy whoâd been on reality TV. He was really, really hated and I saw the shit he took from that crowd.
Stuff chucked at him, people swearing at him⌠I was 16 and was all, âOh man I canât go anywhere.â Then I had that moment
of realisation that, holy sh*t, I am really lucky to be famous for something that people really like. There are far worse things
to be famous for, and this is something that still seems to be genuinely important to so many people in a really sweet way.â
6. ⢠If Radcliffe is fed up with discussing Potter, and he has every reason to be, he doesnât show it. In fact, he brings up the
subject, talking about how strange it is that itâs only four years since the film series ended, because it feels so long ago. He
canât escape it, but he doesnât want to. Which is good because the Potter universe has started expanding again.
⢠We meet on the day that the first images were revealed of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, the 1920s-set Potter
spin-off that stars Eddie Redmayne as a magical explorer who collects bizarre creatures. Radcliffe hasnât seen the pictures
and jumps up to look at them on my phone, clocking Redmayneâs swishy cerulean coat and barking, âOh fuck you, Eddie, in
your brilliant costume⌠I got jeans and a zip top for 10 years and youâve got a greatcoat already?â His language suggests that
e is very casual and that he is comfortable with interviews, as he has had so many
⢠JK Rowling is not just expanding into the Potter universeâs past, but also its future. Next year will see the West End opening
of the play Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, not a sequel to Potter but a continuation of Harryâs story, focusing on his
youngest son, Albus, who is struggling with all that comes with the Potter name. Harry is now unhappily employed at the
Ministry of Magic (basically a wizard civil servant).
⢠Dean Chalkley/NME
⢠Whatâs it like knowing someone else is going to play Harry? âItâs weird,â he says. âBut Iâm happy for it to go on without me.
Iâve no ownership of it.â Would he go and see it? âNow that I know [Harryâs in it] I actually really want to see it. It would be a
mental thing to try and see it with lots of very excited Harry Potter fans. But I kind of would like to know what happens
now.â
⢠He goes all wistful for a minute. âIâd always thought in the years after Potter finished that it would die down, but itâs just
grown more because the people who were massive Harry Potter fans in their teens are now adults. So you meet them more.
Theyâre not at home with their parents, theyâre out in the world. It always amazes me when someone says what a huge part
of their childhood it was. I still have a natural reserve that makes me go, âOh donât be so silly, I wasnât responsible for your
childhood.â But I think about the stuff that means a lot for me from my childhood, like The Simpsons, and how, when I did a
voice on The Simpsons I got a signed thing from Matt Groening and that was so fucking exciting. The thought that I might
occupy that space in somebody elseâs childhoodâŚâ This shows that Daniel actually supports his fans, and takes them into
consideration.
⢠Maybe itâs not the roles heâs taken since Potter that make him unusual. Maybe itâs not even his bizarre affinity for granddad
TV shows. Maybe the thing that makes Daniel Radcliffe Britainâs oddest film star is that he hasnât ever quite realised that heâs
a film star at all. It doesnât seem to have sunk in that heâs Daniel bloody Radcliffe.
This conclusion is very effective because it is slightly informal, this means that it would reach out to the reader more as if he was
talking to them. Also, he has used short- humorous sentences that link back to the interview, that readers can then understand
and smile. It also questions the readerâs thought as the author gives three options to choose from, and slightly describes them,
which suggests something to us. This then pressurises an opinion on the reader which makes them more intrigued by the
interview. The last sentence is effective because it is a quirky yet funny thing to say, as he insists that Daniel Radcliffe doesnât
believe he is actually this world renowned famous actor.
7. Quotations in red
Descriptions of him and what's happening in blue
Personal views, judgements and opinions in green
4 effective bits of language= underlined
Detailed comment of description of conclusion, whats
in it and how the writer makes it effective
8. ⢠Harry Styles has the devil may care hair, a dimple that's melted a million hearts, and now that girlfriend, Taylor Swift. The 18-
year-old Englishman is also a member of One Direction, the saviors of boy band virtue and Billboard's Top New Artist of
2012 . We caught up with Styles, briefly, on the phone recently.
⢠Congrats on being named Billboard's Top New Artist of 2012. How does it feel?
It's been an amazing year for us. We've been having such a great time since when we first came to the U.S. It's been (it has)
absolutely crazy and amazing.
⢠At this time last year, what was your outlook on 2012 and possibly cracking America?
We looked at this album as a very big deal. It's a good feeling obviously to work with everyone and put everything out with
the team that's worked so hard to get us this far. It's (it has) been absolutely incredible.
⢠I'm told you're the music guy in the groups who's always turning others on to new bands. What's your personal taste
like?
I actually get a lot of music from my sister, who's into all these bands. She's been listening to and downloading stuff (music)
that I get from her. A lot of times suggested stuff comes on iTunes I'll have a look at it, or the fans will send me things. But
I've been listening to The Lumineers. I love their album and also Elvis Perkins, he's great.
⢠You guys accomplished a lot in 2012, but what's your personal highlight?
For me the Olympics literally can't be topped (slightly casual and laidback, could have used âcould not be beatenâ or give a
further opinion such as âI prefer the olympics over any other world wide eventâ). Just the feeling of being in that room, all
our families were there. The whole feeling was just unbelievable.
⢠What about performing at the VMAs, where you also won three awards?
There was something about being in the room and the whole kind of atmosphere (could have described the atmosphere e.g.
âthe buzzing and chaotic atmosphereâ) that really surprised me. To be on that stage and perform was unbelievable. I think it
kind of felt like people learned a bit more about the One Direction thing (In my opinion, I felt as though the fans slightly liked
the VMAs because of one direction performing). It felt like we were making music where people of all kinds could
appreciate.
⢠You've got a concert film up next. What can we expect?
We're excited. I think we've had cameras on us for a long time, we've just been filming a lot of stuff (he could have gone into
detail e.g. âfilming a lot of content for our music videoâsâ). It's just gonna (it is just going to) be exciting to watch it back. Just
to have the ability to be able to kind of look back (almost look back) at that while we're older and to have your children see
it will be amazing.
9. Which article and why?
Overall, I would rather choose to do a Q&A type article for my artist. Firstly, this is because the questions are
straight forward, and therefore my artist can reply with an answer that is related to a question. As opposed to a
free flowing article, where the readerâs would want specific questions answered by the artist, but instead they
get to read an article where the artist talks continuously usually about a certain topic. For example, the Daniel
Radcliffe article was focused on Harry Potter and him leaving the set, however the Harry Styles interview is
about his career as a whole, and his band. Secondly, a Q&A type article would be best suited for me because it
is very quick and easy for my artist to answer the questions, therefore more questions can be asked with
straightforward answers, so that more text can be put into my double page spread. If there is more specific
information about my artist on the double page spread, my audience will be able to read more information
about my artist. However with a free flowing article, it leaves more room for a reply that isnt related to the
question, which may annoy the reader of my magazine.
The purpose of doing this is to understand the mode of language that I will need to use for the creation of my
double page spread.