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Expanded Coverage Spread Planner
Plan
Exercise: Create an in-depth plan
For greater coverage, use the expanded spread planner below. Column 1: Brainstorm for photo ideas. Include the “musthave images” essential to your story. Column 2: List your secondary coverage modules in the second column.
Topic:
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Column 3: Write a headline that ties the spread together and makes a verbal-vsiual connection with the dominant photo idea, the topic and story. Column 4: List everyone you might want to interview for the story and modules. Also list people to contact about photos, etc.
Expanded Spread Planner
Angle: Column 1:
Photo ideas
List photo ideas and “must-have images
Column 2:
Secondary coverage List your four secondary modules
Column 3:
Headlines
Write and design headlines for all modules
Column 4:
Story sources
List the people you will interview for this spread