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The lead:

With his first film, "Primer" (New Line, 2004, 77 minutes, PG-13, $27.95), writer/director/actor Shane Carruth (also composer, editor, production designer and occasional cameraman; his parents did the catering) pulled off the near impossible. He created a heady science-fiction parable about time travel with only a single, fleeting special-effects shot.

The lead is one paragraph long. It does not fit into one of the categories that we discussed in class. It follows the curtain raiser/scene setter lead example the best out of all of them.

The main point of this article, that much of the hard work Carruth chalks up to his own inexperienceis is found in the second and third graph of the story.

This paragraph is the closest to the being the nut graph: Much of the hard work Carruth chalks up to his own inexperience. He recorded the sound improperly and had to work overtime to fix his mistakes. He also realized too late that he shot too little footage, forcing two years of fine-tuning when it came time to edit the film on his home computer (on one of the DVDs two commentary tracks, he acknowledges that some scenes showing him muttering "cut" actually made it into the movie).

The write makes good use of scenes in this article.

The article describes how Carruth wants to be done with low budget filmaking.

The reporter does a good job a relaying the details that show factual evidence of who the person is by stating where the person lived, what things he had done in his past, something about his parentsl and more.