There are many different types of non-fiction texts, varying from a newspaper article to an autobiography. In this essay I will be comparing an online newspaper article with a web page. Both texts will be on the subject of festivals. One will be on the Edinburgh Festival and the other on the Lollibop Festival. The subject of the online newspaper article is ‘The 10 best shows for kids’ at the Edinburgh festival. The purpose of the article is mostly to inform and to partly advise, as it says ‘Warning: additional characters are played by members of the audience’. In contrast, the purpose of the Lollibop festival web page is to persuade people to visit the festival. I can come to this conclusion from the language that they use. For example, it says ‘BUY TICKETS!’ AND ‘Share with friends!’ which are both imperatives and make us feel like we have to do what it says. However, as the purpose of the online article about the Edinburgh Festival is to review, it is very different to the Lollibop Festival Web Page. The audience of the online newspaper article is parents of children aged five to thirteen.
I can infer this from how the writer talks about ‘your kids’, which means that she presumes the reader is a parent (or guardian).
The Term Paper on Festival Republic And Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival has beconne a worldwide attraction for music fans and artists alike. In 2009, Bruce Springsteen was added to the long list of acts (from Paul McCartney to Oasis) that have appeared at the festival. It started in 1970 when 1,500 hippy revellers gathered on a farm near Glastonbury Tor to be plied with free milk and entertainment from a makeshift stage. Now, Glastonbury is a ...
I can infer that the article is mainly aimed at women as the image of the writer on the online article is a woman and doesn’t mention fathers or her partner which gives me the feeling that she is a single parent (she only mentions dads when they are ‘stitched up with fart noises’…).
Therefore it gives me an impression that she is aiming at a mainly female audience. The Lollibop festival web page’s audience is also parents (but of age’s two to eight).
Though the web page also aims at a much younger audience as well – the children. The children would use pester power (where the children have the power to pester their parents into getting them what they want!) to get their parents to take them to the festival. This would have been one of the main aims for this webpage. I can infer this from the use of bright, bold colours and lots of cartoons with not much writing, so not to put off children who are unable to read. It also uses language such as ‘Charlie and Lola’s Best Bestest Play’, in which ‘Bestest’ is a word that young children use, even though it is not a word.
The language used in the newspaper article about the Edinburgh Festival is quite complex. For example the sentence ‘The Pleasance is running its Kidzone for the second year, this time with a wooden ark and a non-smoking area where children and their parents can spend time between shows; they also offer, for the first time, the Dropzone, where qualified childminders will look after your kids in a safe and fun environment while you take in an adult show, for £5 per hour, and they will put you in touch with approved babysitting services if you want your evenings free.’ The colours used in the lollibop festival webpage are very bright and colourful which shows that it is aimed at young children.
The colours used are upbeat and would make the children excited to go to the lollibop festival. There are lots of pictures which substitute for the lack of text. There are cartoons of what the children might expect to be at the festival. As it is online it would most likely have hyperlinks if you click on one of the pictures which would make the web page more interactive and engage more children. This would then cause more children to want to go to the festival. In contrast the online article on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival contains little colour and only one image. This shows that it is more for an adult audience as it wouldn’t make a child want to read it as it is not very exciting. The font used in the online web page about the lollibop festival is very simple and some words are written like someone has handwritten it. For example the word ‘TWITTER’ is written like a child could have written it. The fonts used in the online article about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival are very traditional and could be taken as boring. I think the font being used is Times New Roman. This font is quite plain and would not interest a child which strengthens the idea that it is a mainly adult audience.
The Homework on Web Page Exercise
Using the search engine of your choice, complete the following items. Be sure to copy and paste the URL along with your answer. This activity should be done in Word. 1. The World Wide Web Consortium sets Internet standards. Who is the current CEO of the W3C? Jeffrey Jaffe. Link: http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/ 2. What cable company was established in 1858 to carry instantaneous communication across ...
The persuasive devises used in the lollibop web page are the use of well known children’s TV characters for example ‘Zingzillars’ and ‘Rastamouse’. This would attract the younger audience and give an example of what’s included in the festival. The web page also uses things such as offers like winning free family tickets which is an offer that would make parents want to enter (instead of having to pay full price for everyone).
This would bring in more and more viewers of the web page. The web page uses alliteration in things such as ‘programme for pint-sized’ and ‘big bash’. This gives the web page a jollier feel to it. It also confers that the main purpose for the webpage is to persuade. In the online newspaper article about the Edinburgh Fringe it doesn’t use things like alliteration.
