Lead Practice 2

 Welcome Back! In this blog I'll be continuing to share my lead practice that I've been doing for my AICE Media Studies class. As I stated in the previous blog, I created leads based off of paragraphs we were given. This time the strategic lead method that I'll be using is a Descriptive Lead.

Another Refresher: A Descriptive Lead is a lead that describes a scene, person, or subject

I created my descriptive lead based off of this paragraph below:

Thomas J. Serle works for Parker Bros. Circus, which is in town this week. Performances are scheduled at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. every day through Sunday, beginning today. Serle, who maintains a home in Fort Lauderdale, is a laborer who helps care for the animals at the circus, including 10 elephants. During a conversation with a reporter, he said: "Some people look on work with a circus as a glamorous job. It ain't. But I been doing it all my life, and it's too late for me to change. I'll be 60 next year. I was born into it. Both my folks were circus people. I started out as an acrobat until I fell and busted a leg. It never healed quite right, so they offered me this job, and I took it. What else could I do? There's all kinds of myths about circuses, like about these elephants here. Some people say they're afraid of mice, but that's crazy. When we pen the elephants up for the winter there's always mice that get in their hay, and it don't bother them none. The elephants never try to run away or stomp them or anything. They share the same cages all winter. And then some people say elephants got a good memory. Hell, some of the ones we got are so dumb they can't remember a simple trick from one year to the next.

My Descriptive Lead:

Thomas J. Serle is a 59 year old man who is accustomed to circus life because he was born into a circus family. Thomas is a laborer who contributes to the circus's animal care. Although you would think that Serle loves the virus life because that's all he is used to, he does not love the circus life. Thomas seems to not be a big fan of change because he's only sticking to the circus life because that's all he knows. He started out as an acrobat but had to refrain from this position because he hurt his leg due to a fall and the leg never healed. Over the years he has become knowledgeable about circus myths that he is now able to give the truth about.

For this lead I tried to just describe the kind of person Thomas was and what his lifestyle and thinking consisted of. I started off with the name of the person and age to put the focus on who he is. The factsheet paragraph that I chose for this "Descriptive" strategy lead seemed to be the best fit because it was already describing the life of Thomas. I would definitely say that the previous strategic lead strategy that I did was way more easier. 

On my next blog, I'll be providing a last look into my Lead Practice with different strategic lead methods.