Look at the two Articles concerned with the War in Kosovo - Examine the Techniques used by the Writers and Photographers designed to get their messages across in a powerful way.

Authors Avatar

English Course work

Look at the two Articles concerned with the War in Kosovo. Examine the Techniques used by the Writers and Photographers designed to get their messages across in a powerful way

Newspapers and Magazines are a worldwide publication, released every day. Yet each day they seem to attract the searching eyes of the eager public.

        In this assignment I intend to say how the writers use their expertise (skills) and techniques, in the Kosovo article, to get certain messages across to the readers and viewers.

Firstly, the headlines of the article(s) are very powerful and significant. Both headlines refer to the violence of the War, and the responsibility of the actions made. The first headline…

“After the bombs, the blame”

…suggests that the writer, chose significant words beginning with “b”, (“bombs”, and “blame”), so that the headline has a repetition to it, reflecting the actual repeated sound a bomb might make, for example “bang”.

        This repetition of the letter ‘b’ is a good technique used by many Authors, in different articles and different situations. Though it is very powerful, because of the effect that it has on the reader.

        Apart from the words themselves, the presentation of the headline (Font, Font style) is very powerful to us, as readers. It is presented in big, black, bold letters, with a simple font style. If this doesn’t show that the writer uses skills and techniques to get his/her messages across, then nothing else does, because the writers aim is to make the heading standout, by making it big, black and bold, in order to get their message across in a powerful way, and we as readers clearly know that it does this, because if it didn’t, then we wouldn’t have noticed it as much as we did.

The second heading is also very powerful, but not in it’s appearance (like the previous one), instead in it’s actual meaning. In appearance the heading doesn’t have the same effect as the “bombs” and “blame” heading, but in it’s meaning, it is very powerful. The writer chose not to present it in big, black, bold letters, and the suggestion for this is because in the “bombs” and “blame” heading the photograph used with it doesn’t really emphasise the message that the writer wants to get across, so he/she presents the meaningful heading bigger, whereas in the “War in Europe” heading, the two photographs on their own would actually get the writers message across (because in the photographs the Landscape in the background tells us the carnage is in Europe). So the writer really wants the reader/viewer to focus more on the photographs than the title, so he/she makes the heading smaller, and the photographs themselves bigger. This is another skill used by the writer to emphasise their message, to the reader, in a powerful way.

Join now!

        The heading “War in Europe” is more of a statement of fact, rather than a creative (suggestion, balanced, false or true) heading. This is cleverly done by the writer to make the reader think about the fact that it’s true, and therefore it will make him or her realise how close the bombing is to their home.

Another clever technique used by the writer/photographer is that as well as putting in an important heading, he/she also add a picture which proves and emphasises their point more clearly, and gets the message across in a more powerful way. ...

This is a preview of the whole essay