Commentary On My Entertaining Piece Of Creative Writing
Commentary On My Entertaining Piece Of Creative Writing
I decided to write a piece on the subject of cooking in order to entertain my audience, but I didn't want to just entertain the reader by including some jokes, I wanted my piece to have a twist so I decided to write a piece which had an unusual recipe. Of course it was not meant to be actually carried out, only to point fun at the subject. I decided to write this subject as I have an interest in the subject of cooking, and what I find is that most people are put off cooking because they believe it to be boring. But a chef named "Jamie Oliver" is bringing interest back into the area of cooking. So with his popularity with people of my age, I decided to write a twisted recipe in the style of Jamie Oliver. But I was not only writing in the style of Jamie Oliver, I was also poking fun at his phrases and style of cooking which people of my age will know as they will have seen him on the television cooking. This is what I based my research on, picking up well known phrases that he uses, as well as his style of cooking, basically, things he does while cooking, that when pointed out or poked fun at, will be noticed by my audience. Because of this, I believe that the audience will find it interesting to read. I wrote this piece with the idea that if it was to be published, it would done for a charity, such as comic relief.. As this idea for the piece is the kind of ideas that the charity comes up with. Its surreal and unbelievable, and it's not the kind of thing that a normal civilian would do. So this piece would be part of a promotion to raise money, like a charity recipe book, with titles such as "Revolting Recipes".
The first section which was the making of the meal, was split up into 6 paragraphs, followed after by a paragraph which was after the cooking and the preparing of the meal. The first part of the preparation was headed "The Terrier" and then the next section was headed "The Bark and Oak Leaves" and the last section is headed with the title "An hour later", all of these are bold and underlined. I decided to split this piece up into several sections to give it the feel of a recipe, each paragraph describing each individual process of ...
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The first section which was the making of the meal, was split up into 6 paragraphs, followed after by a paragraph which was after the cooking and the preparing of the meal. The first part of the preparation was headed "The Terrier" and then the next section was headed "The Bark and Oak Leaves" and the last section is headed with the title "An hour later", all of these are bold and underlined. I decided to split this piece up into several sections to give it the feel of a recipe, each paragraph describing each individual process of production for the meal, for example, the preparation, the cooking and the serving. I did this by doing research, by reading several randomly selected recipe books. I found that most of the books selected had this kind of genre, and that they also included cooking jargon, such as ounces, grams, millilitres, kilograms and litres, all weight measurements and also it was common to find summaries for what is needed for the recipe (the ingredients). But with Jamie Oliver and his television programmes, he doesn't do this, he does each individual process separately, and clearly heads it out with a heading. So I decided that this was the best way for me to translate this to text by giving each section a sub-title.
I decided to base my style of language that I used on his television performance, rather than the way he writes his recipes. I decided upon this idea because the people find this style of language more recognisable and can easily associate it with the style of Jamie Oliver. As more people in the UK watch his television programme compared to reading his book, they will be more used to phrases, slang, styles and techniques he uses in his television programmes. If I was to use the style of language and techniques that he uses in his writing, then people would find it more difficult to recognise who the actual author is and it wouldn't have the same effect of entertaining than if I was to do it with the style of language that Jamie Oliver uses in his television programmes. I also believe that the style of his cooking is what makes Jamie Oliver popular, so when writing the piece, I tried to put in his most common antics he does in his cooking which people will notice, for example, "just add a handful of salt".
The language that I used was based on how Jamie Oliver speaks, so I included phrases such as "Pukka", "right babe", "darlin", "malarky", "Sorted" and most commonly well known for, is finishing off a sentence or point put across with "yeah". So the overall language is very informal and it includes a lot of slang, such as "darlin". The phrases which I used in the writing which is most commonly used by Jamie Oliver is "What I like to do". This as well as many other phrases already pointed out were repeated throughout the piece, it can also be said that these phrases used by Jamie Oliver can also be fillers. This language is now commonly used throughout my generation older and younger, whether it is due to influences by the role model Jamie Oliver, or from some other source. Because of this, it makes it appealing to everybody, although the language is different to Standard English, it can be easily understood because its commonly used in today's society. Most of the sentences are short so it slows the reader down giving it the feel of a step by step guide to the making of a yorkshire terrier, basically just to make it that bit more realistic. Also, because of the recent adverts done by Jamie Oliver for the company Sainsbury's, I decided to make a reference to it, in order to poke fun at them as well as the recent press stories which is mentioned in the piece. In the terms of actions that Jamie Oliver does, I decided to poke fun at how he always manages to add salt to anything and everything.
I decided to abbreviate a lot while writing, such as "I'm", "don't" and "That'll", these are all the main ones used, as Jamie Oliver does tend to abbreviate a lot while making one of his television shows. I also decided that I would use slang a lot aswell because I noticed that he pronounces these words like this so the only way I could transmit this to paper was by making it into slang, the examples are "wanna", "em", "ya" and "cos". These slang words are used commonly by Jamie Oliver. So basically just including these slang words and phrases and abbreviations is the way to write in the style of Jamie Oliver, and you can do it with anything, which in return provides entertainment for the audience.
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