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I tackled this project by bringing in a variety
of tabloid and mid-market newspapers to establish
some basic journalistic conventions: the screaming
splash headline, the short standfirst that tells
the story, the introduction ("Nose" or
"intro") and the way of telling a story
in short, jumpy sentences which do not necessarily
follow a chronological narrative. Having established
these, we worked in groups on interviewing: the
right kinds of questions (open, not closed, probing)
setting the subject at ease, problems of libel.
Then the children split into pairs to interview
each other, assuming the character of journalist
and interviewee (Massys' Grotesque Old Woman). They
pooled the best - wittiest, most unexpected - and
wrote them up. Finally, we shared our work and brainstormed
headlines.
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