THE ARTICLE: TASK B - Newspaper film supplements

The News of The World is a British weekly tabloid newspaper. It has nearly three million readers each week, making it one of Britain's most popular newspapers.

The Sun (a daily edition of The News of The World apart from on Sundays) did a review of the world's top ten most disturbing films, they placed The Blair Witch Project in ninth place, with The Exorcist in first place, as the most disturbing film of all time.

The News of The World's film articles are typically based on the film itself rather than perhaps diving into the Actors in the film or interviews with the director.

The language used in the articles is generally quite simple, is sometimes cheesy and often is written in a coloquial form as if the writer is speaking to the reader. An article reviewing Natalie Portman's new film 'Black Swan' the writer begins the article by writing: "STOP me when this film starts to sound like the best movie of the last 100 years."For my article which'll be written for News of The World readers, will have to be written in a colloquial style which appears like the words on the page are being spoken than written. The use of cheesy language is heavy and can at point irritate the reader. Numerous examples of this exist in the writer's article about 'Black Swan' - "Natalie Portman stars as a mad lesbian ballerina... DING-A-LING-A-LING. Sold, sold, sold. Give it an Oscar. Give it all of the Oscars." The target gender for this article, or maybe even newspaper could well be for the male population, being that the writer is trying to make the selling point of the film about Natalie Portman being a lesbian ballerina, many men would find an erotic appeal to this, hence why the writer sells it to the readers so early in the article. The simple writing style also suggests that many people of a lower intelligence read the newspaper.

Aside from the article there is use of large imagery and bold headings to act as a pull factor for the readers, after all, with the simple and poor writing style for this article one would need imagery and bold headings to liven up the page. The colours on the page vary from orange, black, blue and white. The colours are used to keep readers attracted to the page, the use of different colours subtly act as a hook for readers to stay on the page, this being that people respond well to use of a range of colours.