creative sense for photographs

 Sometimes photographs gives a creative vision to write-up as well. here are some of the examples. 

Editorial and Column

EDITORIAL

•Begin with the  introduction of news briefly   (talk over recent issues eg hurricane sandy, anti Islam movie, school was taken as marriage hall, 65 years of Independence ,

•Opinion

•single topic

•May have statements

•Lead editorial

•Editor’s note

Purpose

Inform

Influence

Entertain

Reviewing events(14 august, 9/11,Eid festival)

an editorial published in Dawn newspaper over attack on malala. "Symbol of resistance"

http://dawn.com/2012/10/11/symbol-of-resistance/

 

COLUMN

•By line

•Political, social, health, education issues, personal experiences

•Can use first person singular

•facts are written along with opinion

Taliban claimed that the attack on malala was carried out by them at the will of Maulana Fazlullah, reportedly hiding in Afghanistan.

Pakistan has requested the Afghan government to hand over Fazlullah and his men.

It is extremely shameful  that  an Islamic scholar is involved in targeting a teenage just because she was for education..(The Dawn Newspaper 2nd November,2012)

http://dawn.com/2012/11/02/malala-and-ttp-logic/

•May carry any statement

e.g.  “Malala was doing work for foreign media” XYZ said

How to make a descriptive lead

DESCRIPTIVE LEAD 

Define the atmosphere, actions and movements

(e.g. “It was a sunny morning and I was sitting in my lovely garden enjoying aroma of shinny tulips thinking about my upcoming days )

Define expressions to make the write up alive

(e.g.  When I met my friend I found her so worried she was frequently trembling her spectacles up and down)

Use dialogues as a hook for the reader  

e.g “I have broken a precious lamp” she said with a dreaded voice and started crying.

(For story) Create a background if you are defining a new character or some turning point

e.g.  : I was reading a book when doorbell rung and I was surprised to see my aunt.

I was feeling very hopeless after the terrible mishap. I called one of my dearest friends she consoled me and when she told me about a disable physicist I realized that life has not finished at all.

My all the excitement  turned  fade  when I heard that the ….

How to select the style of lead

First of all consider the reader’s interest “think as a reader first”

•Is it good to compare then and now approach?

•Is it interesting to give the reader a style of story ?

•Is it better to raise the question?

•Is there any great quote or a humorous line for the story?

•Can you tease or shock the reader through some bitter facts?

* Climax must be thought provoking. It may ends with a famous saying, verse, question or simple massage for the readers. 

CREATIVE LEAD

     

BLIND LEAD

While sitting in the restaurant it was so weird to see the couples dressed up with rosy code. Everyone had a floret in hand. Some were singing, some were keeping promises and some were playing with the two story strawberry cake.It was looking like a rose valley. But why it was so weird? Because those blissful people didn’t know rose has always some thorns in it. It’s a vale of tines that is the “valley of thorns”           

                             
ROMAN LEAD

Bakray K Tikkay , Hunter Beef, roasted lamb and seekh kabab oranay k baad bohat bohat namkeen  or chatpati si Eid MUBARAK!!!! I know that it feels so zabardast  when you enjoy a sizzling and steamy bar-b-cue in the foggy and chilling night, soothing aroma of  Kababs makes you just feel like dil mangay more!

EXAGGERATING  LEAD 
(a kind of humor lead)

Reddish Brown Creature with RED Horrible round eyes headed frequently moving Antennas coming straight towards me.. with hairy legs seems a RED PREDATOR..COCKROACH!!!!! Why this filthy creature visits the KITCHEN !

GAG LEAD

Do you want to make Money from FACEBOOK?Its quite easy just Go to your account  
setting De-Activate your account and go to work! Use of social Networks has been increasing day by day particularly Facebook is famous among youngsters.

STORY LEAD

Baber is 13 but looks like an adult that’s because he was one of the servants working in a mini bus shouting out the names of stops for passengers since he was nine. There are certain laws for controlling child labor but the question is who is  going to implement these laws..?

SUMMARY LEAD 

Pakistan has recently passed law greatly limiting child labor but many of these kind of laws are universally ignored and some 11 million children age four to Fourteen keep country’s factories operating often working in brutal and squalid conditions.

SURPRISING LEAD

New studies in Australia on the great white shark's brain had revealed important similarities to human brains.

ASTONISHING LEAD

• Around six million death a year are caused by tobacco throughout world according to the annual survey of World Health Organization.

• Every 6.5 seconds a current or former smoker dies according to the World health Organization

• In Pakistan 100,000 people die each year because of smoking according to the World Health Organization.

• Cancer is the 2^nd leading cause of death worldwide, while the Incidence of cancer in Pakistan is about 1.4 million per year according to the reports of World Health Organization

RHYME/JINGLE LEAD

(Seasons on the earth)

  

Winter , spring ,summer and fall surprises and joy hidden in all. Let’s welcome Autumn, about which some says season of harvest and some believes interval.

OR

Seasons come and seasons leave, new vision to see new dreams to weave. The season is on the way when trees free their leaves and allow others to greet.  

QUESTION LEAD

Have you ever seen a doppelganger/twin of our Politician, Leader or A player? Do you know they do exist at some place? If not yet then you must know that they are in the Madame Tussaud, a wax  museum in London.

     

FRAGMENTED LEAD

After the test, after the surgery, after radiation, after Cancer one must learn to live with the disease” Osama said with the shrug of shoulders, a prolonged disease made his matter of fact approach to life.

Osama Hanif age 28 has been suffering from lung cancer since four years but did not let his hope die. He knew at the age of 24 that He was suffering from lung cancer.

for Article/ Feature on the topic above

In  Articles

Ø  Old methods of treatments (chemotherapy)

Ø  New methods (immunotherapy)

Ø  estimate for the treatment

Ø  Equipment in the Hospital 

Ø  Rate of patients who have survived

Ø  Role of Govt 

In Feature

Ø    Case history of  some of the patients and their experiences(opinion)

Ø   Opinion of govt employees regarding health affairs  

Ø    Opinion of private hospital management.

  

THINGS TO BE REMEMBER

Ø  Balanced writing

Ø  Take both the negative and positive aspects regarding the efforts for treatment