As Media Main Coursework - Blog 8

Planning and evalutation of article

My magazine is a indie/rock genre, so for research i looked at articles in magazines of a similar genre e.g. kerrang and Q.

Kerrang uses a variety of methods when writing a article e.g. interviews and reviews. When doing interviews they use a Q&A method, show the question and response. Kerrang do it right to the point, no pretty designs just pure facts. I think this is good because it shows clearly what happend and if u want to know something specific when reading you can just look for the question and get straight answers. i thought this was a good method and encorporated it into my magazine a little bit. Q magazine is slightly different when they do interviews, their method is slightly more relaxed like having a chat with a friend and more pictures and design on the layout.

The language used is fairly similar in these two magazines but was quite surprised to find that Q magazine uses more slang than Kerrang, because Q seems like a more like it would appeal to a higher class then Kerrang would but Kerrang used sophisticated language and very informative.

This is a question from kerrang.

This is the Layout for kerrang, looks more information oreintated and factful.

Question from Q, you can see that its language is

slightly different and use more slang.

Layout of Q, Decorative and questions arent as in your face.

When doing my article i used variety of methods, but i mainly used a review layout and a few facts, just a story about the bands journey. After reading articles of similar genre i disconverd that i could use slang language if i chose so i did change some sentances because then it becomes more relatable because the audience who im aiming my magazine at will understand it and will be more familiar to them.