Descriptive Techniques

I know this will be going against the assignment, as the question strictly states "why would viewers/listeners like your use...".

I'm not a TV or radio writer.

I don't want to be a TV or radio writer.

I have no experience in writing for TV or radio, therefore I have no techniques.

But I can draw from my time as a newspaper writer, in which I have developed a few techniques that I like to think makes my work stand out. So I apologize if I don't directly answer the question, but this is the only answer I can possibly give.

I love love love using imagery as in depth as possible, especially when it comes to longer stories and features. I want to bring my reader courtside of the basketball game I'm covering. I want the reader to see the smile on a track runner's face when she speaks of the comeback she is making from a knee injury. I want my readers to picture them at the beach early on a Saturday morning watching marathon runners race by. Some of my favorite articles I've written over the past seven months have been because I feel like I implemented imagery well into my story. It's one thing to tell someone who scored and what the score was. It's completely another thing to describe the goal well enough so the reader can go out into their yard and perfectly reenact every motion, right down to the celebration.

Secondly, I find subtle alliteration to be a useful tool every once in a while. I see it as almost a comedic relief as well as a truss that helps hold my story together. Something as simple as "it was deja vu for DJ Glazer" might be my favorite lead in my last seven months of writing for newspapers. It's funny and it fits (she scored the tying goal in the 77th minute in back to back games). It would be boring to say something like "DJ Glazer did it again", that doesn't entertain or really grab a reader's attention. Using the lead I used can help branch my two game stories together as well as bring a smile to a reader's face. I know it made me smile. It's nothing over the top either, I don't want to overshadow my story with a sad attempt to be a witty writer by using the same damn syllable over and over. Just one, maybe two examples a story, and hopefully I'll get a smile and a read.