Planning and Evaluation of the Article

Above is the double page article from NME magazine that I chose to analyse. The language and writing style that it uses is similar to what I want to create in in my own article. It uses extremely colloquial language and large sections of transcript in order to appeal to the reader by creating a personal tone. The language used is full of profanities which makes the text less formal but also reflects the anarchic element of the genre, and is something I will most likely do in my own article. The NME article is also quite humerous which is illustrated by the pull quote 'You've still got your hair in a bag? I'll fucking buy that off you!' which just sets the tone of the article really. All of these things are engaging to the reader because the informality creates the feeling that the article is more intimate and directly conversational with the reader themself. My own article will be very colloquial and informal also, but probably be more reminissant of an interview than an article because I think the more direct quotes from the band that are featured in the text, the more comfortable the reader will feel and the more they will get out of reading it.

I also used an article from NME magazine as a model for writing my own, which equally used a selection of colloquial language. It was a review about a live show containing the writer's opinions and comments from fans that went. I have decided I will use the personal tone adopted by the writer to make a connection with the reader, but I will still write an interview as opposed to an editorial-style article.

Above is the finished version of my double page article.

My finished article is an interview with three speakers, the CMS representitive asking questions, and the two band members answering them. I based the interview in my piece from a real interview I conducted to get a feeling of how people would answer the questions, and then typed it up in a more colloquial manner, trying to make the band members appear more care-free and fit in with the ideaology of rock/indie music to appeal to my target audience. I used profanity to emphasise the rock and roll attitudes of the band, and wrote it as if it were spoken, with phonetic spelling to imply their accents and make it seem more personal. I'm overall quite happy with my article, I feel that it looks like something you would expect to find in a real publication, and is both interesting, engaging to the reader, and amusing.