Feature story
The feature (English feature " feature ", " characteristic ") is a journalistic presentation. Features include both characteristics of a report and documentation. The form is widespread ( " radio feature " ), especially in radio. In the Anglo-Saxon literature and in the print media as a " feature story ".
Characteristics
Features are characterized by:
- Dramatic design
- Figurative language for the purpose of being used as a support of a fact
Put simply, the feature is a special form of reportage, which is more focused on time and time again pictorially evidence underpins the narrative draws conclusions based on the.
" The constant change between perception and abstraction, between description and inference identifies the representation of shape feature. A feature writer is therefore more than just Reporter: Although he portrays also, but only for illustration of what he wants to represent or explain ".
The feature is a form of representation that handles the basis of concrete, narrative examples of a subject by means of facts. Facts are translated through small stories, scenes and quotes in images that correspond to the everyday knowledge of the recipient.
Walther von La Roche explained in the book Introduction to the practical journalism the difference between reportage and feature based on a story about fire alarms, " shrill ringing, the number panel lights it up. In the operations center of the Hamburg police a distress call from the alarm connector 3138 is direct wire come [ ... ] The investigation found: There was a mouse that had caused the false alarm. "
This first part shows the traits of a report until he goes to the second part, the facts and explained by describing (and thus completes the feature ):
" Everywhere in West German cities that have an emergency call system with directly connected alarm systems in banks, shops and offices, rings or beeps it daily [ ... ] that is by no means rare, but the rule. In Hamburg 2493mal false alarm was registered last year, only 162mal the alarm was regular. "