Article planning sheet - Your Festival Survival Guide

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	This is a “How To Article” magazine article, presenting tips and advice to audience members that are new festival goers. The purpose of this article is to help audience members who have never attended a Festival, who will therefore benefit from these tips not knowing what to expect. This article is different than others similarly titled as this discusses a broad range of Music Festival essentials; from hand sanitizer and toiletries to fashion and beauty (so it maintains to appeal to the young female target audience)
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	This article is written in 3rd person, as I will be sharing advice and tips from me to the audience; by addressing the audience as “you” it is more personal and interacts more with the audience in a direct way. Additionally, this fits with the slightly informal register in this article, which relates well to the target audience.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	Due to this article focusing on Music Festivals, the register is slightly informal; a formal style would not link with the article or attract the target audience. Language used throughout the article is colloquial and conversational language, using a lot of personal pronouns to form a relationship between myself and the audience. Due to the age range being between 16 - 24, there are some audience members that certain things may not appeal to; too much taboo language or mention of alcohol, sex etc may neglect the younger audience members, therefore I need to ensure that I will maintain broad language styles. There is also occasional (mild) taboo language included in the content to relate to the teenage/ young adult audience (although not making the language too rude or vulgar to neglect the youngest members of the target audience of 16 years old) This article will appeal to everyone as it will use colloquial/ conversational language with emission of jargon which could be unfamiliar with the audience.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	I have used various stylistic approaches when creating my headers (as these are most important when attracting the audience) for example, “Hygiene Hell” uses alliteration so it is catchy and memorable to the audience, as well as presenting a good summary of the following paragraph. Additionally, alliteration has also been included with “Festival Fashion” and “ Staying Snug”. To create conversational language in order to relate to the audience, I have used sarcastic language in various places, such as “They can also be used in the “charming” camping toilets” which will express some humour towards the audience. Most of my headers are short in order to become memorable and catchy to the audience; however the header "Home Sweet Home...Kind Of..." is a kind of enigma for the audience due to the use of the ellipsis ending the header, leaving it unfinished.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	I have used various stylistic approaches when creating my headers (as these are most important when attracting the audience) for example, “Hygiene Hell” uses alliteration so it is catchy and memorable to the audience, as well as presenting a good summary of the following paragraph. Additionally, alliteration has also been included with “Festival Fashion” and “ Staying Snug”. To create conversational language in order to relate to the audience, I have used sarcastic language in various places, such as “They can also be used in the “charming” camping toilets” which will express some humour towards the audience.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	This article is set into 10 small paragraphs, with each one individually numbered for the "Top 10 Tips" this will make it easier and clearer for the audience to read. Additionally, this is formally arranged into the assorted columns so maintains a formal presentation.