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Winona Ryder’s SAGs Facial Expressions Explained By Cute Li'l Costar Gaten Matarazzo

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/winona-ryders-sag-awards-faces-explained-by-costar-gaten-matarazzo-w464000

This article was published online on US Magazine's website, and it's purpose is to entertain the audience. It also informs the audience on certain events which occurred during the SAG awards, which is likely to be a general interest. The articles target audience is likely to be women, aged 18-25. This is because the article is about the female actress, and the main focus is on her facial expressions during the event. This is the type of topic would only appeal to young females, because they are likely to find it very amusing. This is proved especially in the tone of the magazine, which is extremely colloquial (the article starts of with "Wait what?!) and is incredibly chatty.

The title "Expressions Explained By Cute Li'l Costar Gaten Matarazzo" would appeal especially to that audience because the title states that something is explained by "Cute Li'l Costar Gaten Matarazzo" What sticks out especially in this title, is the word "Cute". The target audience are likely to notice the word "Cute" and become interested immediately, since stereotypically females like cute things. Another reason that the title may stick out is because of the mention of Winona Ryder, who is an actor who played most recently in the Netflix original "Stranger Things". Stranger Things is a series which is very popular among younger age groups, including 18-25 year olds.

The article uses sensational writing throughout the whole article for example:

"...David Harbour's impassioned - and, um, very loud - acceptance speech..."

Here you can see that the writer is exaggerating the event by stating that David Harbour's speech was very loud, and they do this in order to make the article more interesting, and more readable. This also relates to the fact that the target audience are females aged 18-25, and stereotypically when gossipping females like to exaggerate things.

"It turns out that Ryder, however, was seemingly unprepared for Harbour’s intense speech directed toward controversial President Donald Trump's recent travel ban."

Here you can see that the article uses simple sentence's, this is because the articles mode of address is peer to peer, which is the why the article doesn't use elaborate coding, or many complex sentences. Bye using simple sentence's the article makes the reader feel as if they are being spoken to by the writer.

The article also uses pictures of the event throughout, which are needed since the article is about Winona Ryder's facial expressions. The first image shows Winona Ryder looking extremely shocked, and is likely to entertain the reader since she looks comical.

Who: Winona Ryders
What: Winona Ryders strange facial expressions are explained
Where: SAG Awards
When: January 29, 2017
How: The article uses Restricted code, because the article is done in a conversational way, for example: "Wait, what?!", the articles language is very colloquial

1: This paragraph reports the context of the whole article, and explains why its strange that Winona Ryder stated that she couldn't hear the speech although the speech was very loud. The first paragraph also uses bold writing for the main people who are included in the magazine, in order to make their names more notable for the readers.
2: This paragraph quotes Gaten Matarazzo and he says that he didn't think Winona Ryder could hear what David was saying, which was why she was making some many strange facial expressions. He also says that we (all the cast) were really happy to be together. This paragraph would especially appeal to the target audience, since what he is saying would be interpreted by females as quite sweet.
3: This paragraph explains how during SAG's Harbour's speech actually started the latest meme at the time, which is an interesting and ironic fact that would appeal to the audience. The article then quotes a tweet from an unknown user who said that they recon every emotion possible appeared on Winona's face. This again is another example of how the whole article exaggerates, since the article is no including another exaggerated tweet.
4: This paragraph reports how Winona Ryder found the speech too intense and is reported to be seen mouthing the words "This is too heavy". This is type of emotional detail is the type of gossip the target audience would be interested in.
5: This paragraph reports how Harbour said that it was difficult to celebrate Stranger things during what was happening in the world today. Again this is sentimental detail that the target audience would stereotypically be interested in.