Ali Mahdi

October 8

New media 10

Mr. Barazzuol

Analysis of My Newspaper article

The process I took to convert the short story I chose which was “There will come soft rains” to a Newspaper article required plenty of creativity and imagination.  An example is when I added a bit to the story by saying that there was a scavenger near the house that decided to film the house working on its own when there was no scavenger in the real story but I needed a character that somehow captures the event since how else would someone know about the event.  I created a headline that goes “Atomic Warfare Flattens 80% of the U.S.A.“. For the lead paragraph, I included the story, which was slightly modified when it came down to the characters and setting to make the story work in a newspaper article format.  For the additional information, I created adds for some of the objects in the short story like the fully automated house which I called the “Home 3000” in the newspaper article.  I did the same with the cleaning mice, and some others to fill in some space.  When it came to the Explanation aspect of the newspaper article, I Wrote “go to 3rd page to read more” at the end of the lead paragraph, where I do the explaining in detail on the third page and a paragraph on the front page that includes an interview of a local.  To make the story work with a newspaper article, I made the setting a kind that still has media like the internet so there is some sense to how the article and the lead paragraph was originated.  Turning the short story into something you can put in a newspaper wasn’t the hard part, for me, for me it was trying to make the newspaper look appealing and not boring with multiple photos and coming up with ideas like creating an interview with a local or creating ads to fill in the white spaces.  I created a third page for the explanation that talks more about the dog that somehow survived but died very soon.  Other than that, adjusting the story just took time and creativity. 

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