Planning and Evaluation of the Article

Planning and Evaluation of the Article

These articles are taken from NME and Kerrang! which are two magazines of a similar genre to my magazine. Both these articles are interviews with artists. The NME interview is with two different but similar artists, Kate Nash and Regina Spektor. This interview is of a different topic to the Kerrang! interview. The NME interview is about showing how similar these two artists are and showing a bond between them whereas the Kerrang! interview is about the artist (Jared Leto)'s favourite songs.

Kerrang!'s interview is much more serious as it is about a subject close to the artists heart and his feelings. He uses quite formal language with lots of emotive language. The NME interview is quite different. The language is informal and chatty and includes swear words unlike the Kerrang! interview. It is more of a conversation between the two artists with the interviewer cutting in every now and then, setting the scene and explaining what is happening behind the conversation. This interview is more like the interview I am using in my coursework. I wanted an informal look at one of my favourite electro bands. I researched the bands attitude in interviews and tried to incorporate it into my made up interview.

"Murder, blank looks on girls, knives and loads of E." I heard the band say this was their influences on a TV interview so I reworded what they said and used it as a drop quote. I used questions that would have got emotive responses from the artists. I knew that their live gigs were what the band was most known for so I made this the main subject in my interview.

After reading the two similar articles I made changes to the start of my interview, so that the narrator set the scene to the interview more then it had before. I did this because I liked the effect it had in the NME interview.