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Jls 624 Feature FEATURE JLS 624 WRITING JLS624 FEATURE WRITING Course Code JLS624 Course Title Feature Writing Course Developer/Writer Mrs. Taiye Omojuwa ABU, Zaria Course Coordinator Onwubere, Chidinma National Open University of Nigeria Lagos Course Editor Chidinma H. Onuwubere National Open University of Nigeria Lagos Programme Leader Dr Christine Ofulue National Open University of Nigeria Lagos ii JLS624 FEATURE WRITING NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA National Open University of Nigeria Headquarters 14/16 Ahmadu Bello Way Victoria Island Lagos NOUN HOUSE, 5, Dar es Salaam Stree.t Off Aminu Kano Crescent Wuse II Abuja, Nigeria e-mail: [email protected] URL: www.nou.edu.ng Published by: National Open University of Nigeria 2008 First Printed 2008 ISBN: 978-058-880-9 All Rights Reserved iii JLS624 FEATURE WRITING CONTENTS PAGES Module 1 General Overview of Features……….. 1 Unit 1 Features: A Starting Point……………….. 1-11 Unit 2 Another Look at Feature Story Ideas …… 12-16 Unit 3 Special Features and Profiles I 17-28 10 Unit 4 Interview Feature and Profiles II………… 29-39 Unit 5 The Feature Sidebar and Feature Series…. 40-52 Module 2 Writing Columns……………………..… 53 Unit 1 Opinion Columns………………………... 53-61 Unit 2 Personal Columns ………………………. 62-69 Unit 3 Service Columns I………………………. 70-75 Unit 4 Service Columns II: Travel Guide ……... 76-81 Module 3 Reviews and Language of Features….. Unit 1 Arts Reviews …………………………… 82-90 Unit 2 Special Correspondents ………………… 91-93 Unit 3 Language of Features ………………….. 94-106 Module 4 Writing Tasks…………………………. 107 Unit 1 Writing the Feature Story ……………… 107-116 Unit 2 Writing the Feature: The Intro…………. 117-121 Unit 3 The Features Sub-editor………………... 122-135 Unit 4 Writing Tasks…………………………... 136-138 iv JLS624 FEATURE WRITING MODULE 1 GENERAL OVERVIEW OF FEATURES GENERA OVERVIEW OF FEATURE Unit 1 Features: A Starting Point Unit 2 Another Look at Feature Story Ideas Unit 3 Special Features and Profiles I Unit 4 Interview Features and Profiles II Unit 5 The Feature Sidebar and Feature Series UNIT 1 FEATURES - A STARTING POINT CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Objectives 3.0 Main Content 3.1 Features: A Starting Point 3.2 The Nature of Feature Articles 3.3 Characteristics of Features 3.4 The Nature of Feature Stories 4.0 Conclusion 5.0 Summary 6.0 Tutor-Marked Assignment 7.0 References/Further Readings 1.0 INTRODUCTION This unit briefly explains the nature of feature stories, picks one definition out of several and examines it as well as looks at the various types of feature stories. The idea is to refresh your memory (for those who are not media workers and those who have not been engaged in any form of journalistic writing). 2.0 OBJECTIVES By the end of this unit, you should be able to: • Explain the Nature of Feature Stories. • Identify some feature story types. 1 JLS624 FEATURE WRITING 3.0 MAIN CONTENT 3.1 A Starting Point Imagine the great tragedy that befell the country when bombs exploded at the Ikeja Military Cantonment in Lagos early this year. If you were not an eye-witness, try and recollect what you saw on the television, the stories and pictures you saw in newspapers and magazines and eyewitness accounts. Clearly, you would not restate what has been said in the media. You would look for your own unusual angle if you were to write on this tragedy. As a starting point, especially at this level, features are people, ideas and event-oriented as they are usually written about interesting people, ideas or events depending on the unusual perspective from which the writer looks at it. Therefore, let us look at the professional definition of “features”. Definition of Course Title Feature Writing is a course in mass communication which involves and explores the creative abilities of the journalist to its fullest; and uses the journalist’s literary skills maximally. It is a creative effort based on facts and figures. The feature writer writes articles or stories that break out as news or that creep up from his personal imaginations or his true life experiences. These stories or articles are therefore not fictitious; rather, they are factual and so are more in-depth than fiction What is feature writing? A feature story is a colourful story about people, events, places and life. It is an in-depthly researched and creative piece of writing with information drawn from eye witnesses and experts on the subject. Features could be occasionally subjective, but often factual in nature. They are primarily designed to entertain and inform readers of an event, a situation or an aspect of life. These attributes of features may have been responsible for Okoye’s definition of features as: “An in-depth and factual write up on a topical issue which seeks to give comprehensive information in a more captivating and relaxed style than straight news”. 1 Feature writing is a crucial part of the news papering business especially 2 JLS624 FEATURE WRITING in this age when cable transmissions are discouraging a lot of people from reading newspapers. The broadcast media, especially the television, is capitalizing on its strength of immediacy, impact, price and credibility. This means that you can get the information live, immediately it happens and this makes an impact on you especially if it comes with vivid and colorful pictures. The credibility is also not in doubt because it becomes a matter of “what you see is what it is”. 3.2 The Nature of Feature Articles A feature story must be unusual i.e. it should not be about something that usually happens, e.g. car crash (except if it involves a prominent personality). It must have the human interest dimension as this gives the reader or listener a sense of personal relationship with the subject. When human interest feelings or suffering is narrowed down to a particular human being, then the reader readily identifies with the subject. Usually, a conflict (serious or trivial) gets resolved either way i.e. negatively or positively in a feature story. Thus, a feature story has universal appeal to its readers. Features are not restricted to only the print media. There are features on radio and television also. A radio feature may take up three minutes while a television feature can run for 10 15 minutes. Berger (1990) distinguishes between mini documentaries (these are not longer than 15 minutes) and standard documentaries that run for one hour or more. 3.3 Characteristics of features A feature article is not fiction, neither is it a one-sided account of an interested party. Rather, it is a balanced report reflecting all the angles of the story. This is why Okenwa in distinguishing a feature from a story states that: While a news writer will normally stick to facts and report them as a matter of fact, without embellishment or comments of any kind, the feature writer offers more than bare facts. He can add flavour to his story. He can embellish the facts, background them, entertain comments… and interpret them. He uses anecdotes, descriptions and humour. He uses more factual and imaginative language. And his story can be more subjective; maybe, even more entertaining. (okenwa, ……..) From the above assertion, it becomes obvious that a feature story takes on additional values which make it quite unique and distinct from 3 JLS624 FEATURE WRITING straight news. Certain things equally make features stand out clearly against straight news. These can be regarded as their characteristics which every regular reader of features can easily identify. A few of these characteristics are discussed below just to refresh our memories. 1. Imperishable This is a very important feature of feature articles. This simply means that a feature article does not perish, unlike the story which becomes stale the next day. This is because there is usually a time-frame on the news story which makes the story lose value if not published within the time-frame. The feature story is not attached to such time-frames since it is usually carefully selected and created at the feature writer’s convenience. 2. Cannot be scooped This means that someone’s particular feature article cannot be published in its originality before hand, by another writer. This is simply because the choice of topics for future stories is simply is the prerogative of the feature writer. 3. Can be created from mundane ideas or issues There is actually no rigidity in the selection of a feature topic. Hence, any topic or issue can be featured. In the past, certain topics or issues were considered too trivial to be published. However, with the development of the press, ideas and topics which previously would have been considered inconsequential became the toast of feature writer. In other words, the choice of topics for features includes both the serious and trivial. 4. Give in-depth information on topical issues Feature articles give in depth information to the audience about a particular topic. This is because the writer must have investigated the topic before presenting the different angles to the audience. Hence, features are written under very relaxed atmosphere. This gives room for adequate survey of facts and information on the topic to be “featurised” 5. Selection of topic is rigorous Feature articles are rigorously selected because the feature writer has to present something (topic) that is usually captivating; colourfully and stylishly presented in a unique manner. 4 JLS624 FEATURE WRITING 6. Delayed and more complete Feature stories are not as timely as straight news because time is required for the indepth investigation of the topic. Hence, delay in feature is pardonable, moreso, when it is justified with a balanced report.
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