Week Eight Assignment: Pitchfork Content
October 15, 2006Write another post detailing online content you will create for your organization or publication.
Ok. So I wrote an entire blog detailing how Pitchfork posts reviews that can be overwrought and hard to understand at times. So I will aim to remedy this by writing a review on the new DVD from the British band, The Wonder Stuff.
The Wonder Stuff have released seven albums, but no real coverage from Pitchfork so I will write a review between 400 to 800 words that uses clear language but still offers the detailed analysis synonymous with the Web site. Writing a review will allow me to complete my class assignment and produce a work sample that I hope will entice the Pitchfork editors to hire me as a music reviewer.
Here are the other requirements:
Send a sample review of a recent album from your collection– preferably one that’s been released in the past six months, and that we don’t presently have a review of in our archive. If we decide to hire you, it’ll be your first review for the site, so we’ll need it to be written specifically for Pitchfork (it can’t have been previously published), and between 400-800 words in length.
a good plan. 600 words is REALLY brief. I recommend a longer template for your reviews (unless 600 is typical for pitchfork reviews, in which case i guess your bound). i also suggest more than one, not all for the first week, but in presenting a series of reviews, you give readers (and pitchfork editors) a better look at your sensibilities, your writing, your emphases and criteria. full speed ahead