Question:
Look up 2 feature stories. Analyze how it’s written and explain the type of structure, interviews carried out, quotes and ending.
Rewrite the story with a different introduction (2-3 paras).
Feature news story 1: As we welcome the Year of the Tiger, let’s take a peek into the art of Chinese red paper-cutting
Type of structure:
This feature news story uses nut-graph structure. Instead of starting with the introduction of the interview, the story starts with the sentence “It’s not a complicated activity but some patience and dexterity is required” to catch the reader’s attention. In the following paragraph, the journalist explores more ideas in detail, and then comes to introduce the cutting paper history and then provides the interviewee’s useful background in the next paragraph.
Interviews:
The interview of this feature news story focused on the main interviewee, cutting paper artist Eten Teo. The journalist focused more on his cutting paper experiences. For example, journalist mentioned Eten Teo is regularly invited to conduct workshops and share his knowledge on paper-cutting, discuss his work ranges, collaboration experience and journalists also added about his perspective on paper-cutting activities towards adults and children and lastly got mentioned about his hopes. Quotes:
In this feature news story, the journalist included a lot of direct quotes in every paragraph. The quotes are used to emphasize and explain the previous key points. The quotes are all from Eten Teo and it is short and continuous, it is the accurate information from the interviewee as there is included the interview video above in the article. The quotation in this story is arrangeable which allows readers to read through the flow of the interview conversation smoothly.
Ending:
The ending of this story is straight as the journalist just mentioned the interviewee quotes in the end of the story. Although the ending of this story used quotes as the end of the story, it wraps up the story and gives the last or the end of the story. The last quote mentioned Teo’s hopes, which is “He hopes that Chinese paper-cutting can be introduced in schools. “That can instill in children a love for the art form and hopefully, help to preserve it in the long run,” he said.
Rewritten Introduction:
Using a scissor or a knife with a piece of paper and cutting out patterns from paper which can make a very special craft. It is one of the oldest folk arts forms in China, Paper cutting.
Paper cutting is the art of the paper design, the cut-outs are made using thin red paper, as red symbolizes auspicious colour associated with good fortune and happy occasions and it has been popular throughout China for over two thousand years.
A 32-year-old Kajang, Selangor-based self-taught paper cutting artist Eten Teo, is currently only a handful of artists who are preserving that art form in Malaysia.
Feature news story 2: Something for everyone at Woong Kee Beancurd
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/food/2022/02/09/something-for-everyone-at-woong-kee-beancurd/
Type of structure:
This feature news story uses geography as a structure. This news story is suitable for travelers to explore more so journalists used this structure which can be the most logical way to organize a general feature. So, in this situation, it is suitable as a travel feature and travel features about a journey are clear examples of this technique.
Interview:
The interview of this feature news story focused on the main character Woong Kee Beancurd. In this story, the journalist wrote about how tau fu fa is delicious, the special flavour of tau fu fa.
Quotes:
In the story, there are no direct quotes or indirect quotes. It is because journalists did not write it out as they are mentioned in the interview video. I think it is not good to miss the quote in the story, it will lose the interaction between the readers. However, they used the video to attract readers. It is better to do this if they use this story as travel features.
Ending:
The ending of this story is to attract the readers to come here to try the beancurd. It is suitable to use here because it seems like a travel feature. Then, the ending is the call to action, it will be More readers will come to look forward and visit to this shop.
Rewritten Introduction:
Ipoh has around 20 years of hidden food, tau fu fa that has been praised by many customers who come to this stall.
Due to its exclusive flavour, it attracted many customers or even tourists from other places to taste it.
Woong Kee Beancurd, situated along Jalan Aly Pitchay, serves a variety of flavours that blend the traditional with the innovative, born from a recipe that’s been unchanged for decades.
A 60-year-old Woong Kee Beancurd founder Lau Teik Kip started this business at the age of 20 and the store’s recipe is one that was passed down by his grandmother and grandfather.
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