See, in my entire life, the only pyramids I ever knew were:
1) Pyramids in Egypt
or...
2) The Food Pyramid!
But after this lecture, I realised, there was another Pyramid used in Journalism, and it's called:
THE INVERTED PYRAMID!
Okay, so basically, this lecture talked about the importance in organising our text and typography from the most important to the least important. It's all about capturing the audience's attention immediately and delivering the main points- filtering all the less important stuff to the later paragraph.
I also learnt that a standard article always comes in a standard format:
1) Headlines
2) Standfirst
3) Bodycopy
4) Captions
5) Pull Quotes
6) Break-out boxes
7) Links
While googling for more information about the Inverted Pyramid, I came across this article about 10 things Journalist should never do.
Pictures> Words, anyday. I tend to switch off when I see a bunch of text.
Whenever I'm reading a news article, I just read the first two paragraphs and then I'm off to the next news. It's such a bad habit (i know i know), but I get distracted by pictures really easily. So, if I see an article with a visual input in it, I tend to examine/ read/ pick apart the visual before reading the actual text. Guess I'm teamVisual. :)
1) Pyramids in Egypt
or...
2) The Food Pyramid!
But after this lecture, I realised, there was another Pyramid used in Journalism, and it's called:
THE INVERTED PYRAMID!
Okay, so basically, this lecture talked about the importance in organising our text and typography from the most important to the least important. It's all about capturing the audience's attention immediately and delivering the main points- filtering all the less important stuff to the later paragraph.
I also learnt that a standard article always comes in a standard format:
1) Headlines
2) Standfirst
3) Bodycopy
4) Captions
5) Pull Quotes
6) Break-out boxes
7) Links
While googling for more information about the Inverted Pyramid, I came across this article about 10 things Journalist should never do.
My Favourite: A journalist should never be a friendly dog when reporting and then go snake at the keyboard. ABC. Always Be Congruent.Personally, I get really bored and tend to skip all the long text and words- and to think that as a Science student, I would have get used to reading heaps of words...But! you got it wrong buddy (Yeah, blame it all on the scientific articles we have to read :/)
Pictures> Words, anyday. I tend to switch off when I see a bunch of text.
Whenever I'm reading a news article, I just read the first two paragraphs and then I'm off to the next news. It's such a bad habit (i know i know), but I get distracted by pictures really easily. So, if I see an article with a visual input in it, I tend to examine/ read/ pick apart the visual before reading the actual text. Guess I'm teamVisual. :)
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