Feature Headlines

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Feature Headlines

• Miss Wadycki,
• Miss Lolkema
• Mrs. Verpooten

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The difference

• Feature headlines are not the same as news
  headlines.
• Visually, they will have some sort of graphic
  play.
• Verbally, they will include humor, irony or an
  incomplete a sentence

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The difference

• For example
• Colts lost their first game of the season.
• News Head Colts lose first of season
• Feature Head Perfecto a no go

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A process

• The editors at Entertainment Weekly magazine use
  a three step process for writing headlines.
• You do it on in your notes for the following
  story as an example.

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• Writing Process
• List 10-15 key words
• Focus on content angle significance
• Brainstorm rhyming words for key words
• List phrases that use those rhyming words
• Transition original key words
• into rhyming word phrases
• Capture the story with clever word play

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• List 10-15 key words
• Hot
• Fun
• Travel
• Family
• Sweat
• Thrills
• Love
• Curfew
• Work
• Tan
• Swim
• Lazy

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For a story about Student Summers
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• Brainstorm rhyming words for key words
• Hot--not, knot, shot, trot, yacht
• Fun--run, sun
• Summer-bummer
• Travel-gavel, ravel
• Family-
• Sweat-get, bet, net, jet, threat
• Thrills-chills, spills, will
• Love-dove, shove, above, glove
• Curfew-blew, chew, renew, do, taboo
• Work-quirk, jerk
• Tan-span, fan, scan, clan
• Swim-him, gym, whim
• Lazy-crazy, daisy

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• List phrases that use rhyming
• words transition key words
• Not by a long shot Hot by a long shot
• Summer Summers bummers
• Good will hunting Good thrills hunting
• Net gains Sweat gains
• Fits like a glove
• Fan the flames
• Bite off more than you can chew
• Love in first degree Love in the 101st degrees
• Know a thing or two
• Know it all
• Stealing the show

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A process

• Students volunteered time at a local YMCA
  teaching kids swimming lessons and tutoring them
  after school.

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Step One

• List Key Words from the story as many as you can
  think of.

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Step Two

• For each word, think of some common words that
  rhyme with it.

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Step Three

• List phrases that use rhyming words and
  transition in the key words.

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Some examples
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Another way to do it

• Feature headlines can also look for a
  verbal/visual connection.
• This means that the headline matches somehow with
  the dominant photo/art that runs with the story.

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For Example

• Ran with a story on gas prices around Halloween

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For Example

• Headline reads
• Gas prices on the moooove

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With a partner

• Get on newsdesigner.com or newspagedesigner.com
• Find four headlines that are clever or funny or
  that you just plain like.
• On your paper, sketch the pages of your four
  favorites and tell me what made them such good
  headlines.