Planning And Evaluation Of The Article

The above article is a double page spread from an issue of Q Magazine. It is an interview featuring well known artist Jon Bon Jovi. The first page contains the article and the second page is just a large old photograph of Bon Jovi. The first part of the article is just the writer telling the reader about the setting and filling in some background knowledge of the featured artist and the second part of the article is a question and answer between the interviewer and the artist. The article is informal, this is shown through the language used. For example, the use of the expletives such as "fucking killer!" and "That fucker's on the air". They also use words such as "pure dentist's porn" and this shows the article is informal and would appeal to the target audience as it is mostly men. In the article there are many different types of questions asked, for example they talk about the artist's wife and love life, and they also talk about his musical successes and things to do with his band.

The double page spread article above is also from a past issue of Q magazine. It is also an interview this time with Paul Weller. Similarly to the first double page spread, the right hand page is filled with a photograph, this time a more recent photo that was taken specifically for the magazine article. This article goes directly into the interview with the featured artist, it does not have an introduction like the first one did. The questions asked in this article are age related and about personal things and the article takes an informal approach, this is so that the readers believe they are reading a private personal interview between friends. They ask things such as "Can you imagine being a pensioner?" and "Do you become more aware for you mortality as you get older?" This would appeal to the older end of the target audience scale as some of these people may have been a fan of the artist when he was in his prime (as were they) and they want to see what he is doing now and see how they compare. The language used in this article is informal and colloquial. Paul Weller refers to the interviewer as "mate" and this gives the article a relaxed feel. They also use words such as "retarded" this shows the informality and the relaxed attitude towards the article as some magazines would not print this because it can be seen as politically incorrect.

After looking at these two articles, I decided I wanted to do an interview - question/answer - type article that would appear informal. Using some examples from the articles I came up with the following introduction and questions and answers for the article I will use in my magazine. I wanted to talk about a variety of questions so I including questions about music, relationships and general questions.

Noah Clark is the new artist that has taken the music industry by storm. With his first single "Anyone But You" reaching number one in the official single charts, his new up coming album is predicted to do great things in the album chart. We caught up with 21 year old Noah in his home town of London and now for you exclusive in Shuffle we have Noah and his first detailed interview.

Q: Noah, first off, congratulations on your first number one! Did you ever expect your first single to be such a hit?

A: Noah: Thankyou! Honestly, I had hoped so but you can never tell in this business so to have achieved my goal so early on is really great.

Q: People are often critical of
musicians these days who don’t play their own instruments or write their own lyrics, how do you feel about it?

A: Noah: I think there are some great artists out there that don’t play or write their own lyrics but I do believe that originality is key and to say you’ve accomplished something by
working so hard yourself is even better.

Q:Do you write your own lyrics?

A:Noah: I do, I’ve been writing songs since I was 12. In fact, I originally wrote "Anyone But You" when I was 15 about a girl I met on a train.

Q:Now you’re a big star do you still think you’re a nice guy?

A:Noah: Of course! I don’t think fame has changed me much at all! Obviously, I get recognised a lot more now and it does make normal life a bit harder but I like it and the girls.

Q:Who is your biggest inspiration musicly?

A:I’d have to say Queen as they were my favourite when I was growing up.

Q:Talking of girls, you’ve been spotted lately with Pixie Lott, are you two dating?

A:Noah (looks down and plays with his thumbs): Pixie’s a great girl, we get along well.

Q:So you’re single?

A:Noah: I am, and I’m looking. I want to prioritize my music at the moment but if the right girl comes along and I know she’s the one for me, then I’ll definitely get involved. I actually did get hit on recently by someone pretty famous.

Q: Who was it?

A: Noah: I don’t think I can say. It might
embarrass them, she is in a popular girl band that’s all I am saying.

Q:Are you going to be attending any festivals this Summer?

A: Noah: I’ve been attending Reading since I was 16, to be able to perform there on stage would be simply amazing.

Q:What’s the best piece of advice and support you have been given?

A: Noah: Well all support from my Mum and my family is the best and the most important to me as they’ve been here for me through the biggest change in my life but I met Mick Jagger at a movie premiere and he told me to never give up. I know that’s pretty simple advice but, it was from Mick Jagger and the fact that he knew who I was blew me away!

Q:We hear the new album is finished now, what’s it called and when can we expect it to hit the stores?

A:Noah: The album is all finished! Finally! I’ve worked on it for a long time and It’s exactly how I imagined it to be. I can exclusively reveal to you, that it’s going to be called "Lights". You’re the first to know that. It’s definitely going to be out sometime in March.

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