Write a review for a lifestyle magazine about an essential twenty-first century product/ theatre experience/ pastime.
In planning your response, you should consider:
Aim to write about 300 words. Use the planning template below.
Reviews are always aimed at the same basic audience: people who are considering whether or not to spend money on something (e.g. a phone, cinema tickets, a car, a meal in a particular restaurant, etc.). Your audience will be determined by whatever it is you choose to review. Answer the following questions to help you envisage your target audience.
Now that you have a clear idea of your target audience, how will you adapt your language to capture and hold their interest?
A review will conventionally include a few elements:
Read the commentary below:
And, well, that’s all it really does right now. Zooming is great, but that’s not the only reason to put dual cameras on a phone. Other phones with dual cameras, like the Huawei Honor 8, let you do all kinds of wild focus and depth of field adjustments, and some even let you refocus the image after the fact, like a Lytro camera. The effects can be a little fake-looking, but they’re the sort of thing dual cameras enable. But the iPhone 7 Plus doesn’t do any of that, although a forthcoming software update will enable a portrait mode that blurs the background into what looks like a very nice bokeh.
What aspects of this commentary will you incorporate in your own commentary?
How will your commentary differ from this one -- what will you do to give it a personal flair?
Now write your review!
As you do, strive to: