COPY – Day 11writing headlines #1

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PAY ATTENTION!

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•captures & keeps readers with clever diction & clear details

•reflects the dominant photo’s content

VERBAL

VISUAL•(an entry point)•uses type creatively

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• Identify content

• Tell something specific about

the season, event, etc.• Capture the readers’attention

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Primary headline – the Teaser

• Intrigues the reader visually and/or verbally

(larger than anything else on the spread.)

• Provides information specific to the year & identifies the spread’s focus (subject and verb are needed.) This is smaller then the primary head.

Secondary headline – the Teller

HEADLINE ANATOMYHEADLINE ANATOMY

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secondary headlineTELLER

Homecoming

Reign DelayGame, field coronation cometo a thundering halt

label

primary headline TEASER

• Identify content?

• Tells something specific about the event?

• Captures the readers’attention?

HEADLINE ANATOMYHEADLINE ANATOMY

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Headline: TEASER – captures your attention “CLOSE SHAVE” TELLER – identifies topic -- Relay for Life TELLER – organizes pep rally, funds

donated for cancer research

BONUS:Texturevisually reinforces the theme

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Clever word play enhances content

Alliteration

Antonym, synonym, homonym

Onomatopoeia

Rhyme

Pun

LITERARY DEVICESLITERARY DEVICES

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Homecoming fans experience

Wet, Wild Washout

Thunder, lightning cause Homecoming

BASHtoCRASH

Get a Reign CheckHomecoming ceremony washes out

Lightning stormdestroys HomecomingRealReignWreck

Alliteration

Rhyme & Onomatopoeia

Homonym

Pun

LITERARY DEVICESLITERARY DEVICES

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headline writing CopyLITERARY DEVICESLITERARY DEVICESALLUSION

headline writing CopyLITERARY DEVICESLITERARY DEVICESPUN/ALLUSION

headline writing CopyLITERARY DEVICESLITERARY DEVICESBEFORE & AFTER(like Wheel of Fortune)

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headline writing CopyLITERARY DEVICESLITERARY DEVICESHOMONYM

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headline writing CopyVISUAL/VERBALVISUAL/VERBALCONNECTION

• The headline also establishes a visual/verbal connection.

•The message of the spread is illustrated by the dominant photo and supported by the headline.

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