In my Gods Among us piece my Genre was an artice and review, my Audience was prefferably males but females too who watch films and are up to date with the film industry.My Purpose was to entertain with the secondary purposes to perswade and argue.
In my piece i used a variety of techniques which the original artical had used, I used the metaphor "pushing the other competition of the bench", this is a metaphorical indirect allusion, it references Forrest Gump.In which Tom Hanks won best actor.I feel this is effective as a technique as it allows a relation from writer to audience on which is based on common knowlage ground.The metaphor used in the original piece however was used for a different purpose, "already a blazing star". This is used as a perswasive technique to imply greatness.
whilst writing this commentary I have released that i should have focused more on the techniques to borrow form my style model as when i have gone back and compared the two they have very little similarities, this is defiantly something i need to improve on to get a good grade.Most of the techniques i have used are ones i did naturally and this is why writing my momentary is very difficult.
Esme - you are right - the metaphor is effective because it relies on the kind of pragmatic understanding you can expect from this target audience - Empire readers want to be able to make these connections and work hard to understand a complex text. That's part of the enjoyment. I am interested in some of the non-standard spellings you use - I can absolutely follow what you are saying with perfect clarity; try copying the text into Word and looking at the spellings it highlights - work on learning those. There are some slips like momentary/commentary which it won't highlight, so see if you can spot any others yourself. It is vital that you plan to include techniques from the style model, so get used to doing that. Good start.
ReplyDeleteOoh, also - why males? I think you need to think more about the audience for the magazine generally and who within that audience might find this specific article (within the magazine, as they might not read every article - I always do but some might not) interesting; I wouldn't narrow it down to one gender in a magazine that appeals to both genders - especially when the article is also available to search online and might be found by a variety of Hanks fans who might then choose to read it - you can specualte as to who might find it interesting and if you think it might appeal to one gender more than another, provide evidence as to why you think that.
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