week3 The cheapst famous art

Analysis:
When I first saw this news, I know it would be success.

First of all, I was attracted by the picture which is on the top of the news. The author uploaded Pasquale Giordano and Leon Roubo’ s masterpieces to attract viewers at first glance.

Now we can talk about its structure, it used the inverted pyramid model of news writing. The introduction included 14 words which contained the key elements of the story. The body of the story covered the related details in descending order of importance. For example: the context of the second paragraph, “that's the amount that 15 artworks could theoretically fetch when a new online art auction starts taking bids next week,” is relative more important than the next few paragraphs.

Moreover the second paragraph also include”who what when” elements, which makes this news even more intuitive to newsreaders.Who: 15 artworks, what: a new online art auction starts, When: next week. Therefore, the brevity may attract news viewers at the beginning, and readers are more inclined to read the details of this news. .

Using numbers is another feature for this news, which make it more accurate and professional For instance, “The first auction of 100 artworks will open for bids on Thursday and will close on June 1. After that, art auctions will go live at GraysOnline at the rate of about one each week with most works valued between $500 and $20,000” . These data can give more details of the auction, thus it can give rise to more participation in reality.

In short, this news is attractive; I would like to click on this website to know more details about the auction. Maybe I can get a masterpiece by a very cheap price!


Links: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/famous-art-for-just-9-arthur-boyd-bill-henson-at-deutscher-and-hackett-fine-art-online-auction/story-e6frezc0-1225868863333