While sleep pattern meets artwork

News:
Sleep patterns to be re-interpreted as art (Samia O’Keefe)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/13/3037405.htm?site=arts


Description:
Lisa Carrie Goldberg is doing one artwork related to sleep research at UWA.


Comment:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/13/3037405.htm?site=arts

Visual arts should be as interesting as it could be to attract audiences because it is such a relaxing and enjoyable thing. So, when I see the word “sleep” and “art” headline on the lists of arts news search, I immediately decide to click in it and find out what that is.


Story begins with three questions paragraphs, for example, Have you ever wondered what you look like when you sleep? That’s one of my favourite styles of a colour story, making you thinking and wondering. Then, the author starts to reveal the 5W elements of news story and describe the difference from traditional science experiments, which is not finding a cure method.


Yes, in the sixth paragraph, the author makes clear it is one artwork. But it does not matter, because it has already hooked audience’s interests. On the other hand, the author uses lots of quotes from Ms Goldberg to finish the rest of story and many paragraphs are just one or two sentences.


The other thing I like this news story is the humour within it. I still remember one paragraph saying that due to the sleep observation which needs to be worked during the night, so what about Ms Goldberg’s sleep. The author said Ms Goldberg isn’t worried she’ll fall asleep herself but need more coffee.


I prefer short paragraph but I am still not sure that how long each paragraph will be the best. One of my friends studying communication in MQ once told me that one news writing assignment she had every class is writing the exact number of words of each paragraph according to the requirement of the lecturer. So there must be some rules in it and definitely I think it is a good way to start and practice.