Here is the initial primary composition of my article for the double page spread feature, this post originally was suited for my older piece of coursework which was submitted last year, however I had to make a few alterations and completely revamp the content as my resubmission involved the use of a male artist rather then a female so the storyline had to be manipulated. Yet the same question and answer style format was recycled for the new copy of the article.
FIRST DRAFT
'Screw men female power
all the way baby!’
When we first arrive
at the studio shoot we are all feeling fairly apprehensive to say the least. No
one knows what to expect from this interview we’ve received no guidelines, no
warnings, no essential information what so ever- literally we have all been
thrust into the impending darkness. The reason why we feel this way? Luna Rays - the newest , upcoming female artist on
the alternative scene. This is her first public interview since the release of
her smash hit single ‘Beams’ and Fleet has had the genuine honour of publishing
her and her beautiful music to the nation for the very first time. We enter the
studio and are greeted warmly by her manager who escorts us to a small waiting
room accompanied adjacent to the shoot, on our way past we glimpse our newcomer
for the first time – posing for the photographer with such dextrocity and power
– you wouldn’t believe she’s been in the eyes of the country for less then two
weeks – such confidence! After a half an hour wait it is done and Luna enters
the room escorted by her manager. She approaches me warmly and shakes my hand
with an incredible amount of vigor and brightness – nothing compared to the
moody, sophisticated persona she delivers in the eyes of the camera
First of all Luna I’d
like to say what a privladge it is to have you here today we are very grateful
for your time
Its no bother at all
darling its about time I let the world know who I am as an individual I can’t
keep hiding in the shadows anymore – I need to promote my image, get my message
across and shine!
This must have been
quite a rollercoaster ride for you the past few weeks with the instant success
of your single - you’ve been pushed into the limelight so quickly- everything
has been a blur!
A blur is not how I
would describe it more like a hurricane of madness (she laughs) things have
progressed so violently I mean one minute I’m in my flat writing songs and
strumming away at my baby – the next I’m hearing my voice on all the major
radio stations as I drive to the shops I’m like ‘really is this actually
happening? Holy sh!t’
So tell us how does it
feel to have a consecutive three weeks at the top of the charts?
Honestly I just
couldn’t put my happiness into context hun to me this is all a dream – a
fairytale I experienced as a child which I just haven’t woke up from yet and faced
reality. Sometimes I get up in the morning and have to pinch myself as I’m
reminded I’m working in the studio all day - to me this is an illusion and I’ll follow my normal
routine – make breakfast, go to work, come home, eat crap, watch tv, make a
little music, go to bed – its actually hard to accept but I’m just so very
grateful for all those who have gave a little of their time to listen to me –
now that means a lot.
I take it music has
always had a huge influence on your life?
For me just having a
few glasses sitting in the dark and playing my guitar was the only thing I
wanted to do from the moment I woke up. Since I was a little girl all I wanted
to do was get myself and my feelings across to people and to do that I sang –
it’s the only thing I knew how to do. I used to go to my deadbeat job in
Sainsbury’s, sit behind a till and put some unhappy families shopping through
the electronics and think to myself ‘Hun you can be doing so much better with
your life, look at their faces they aint happy and neither are you – stop
wearing that mask and face the facts nothings ever gonna change unless you make
the difference’ And I’m glad I listened to that little bastard nagging away in
my head all this time.
Were you nervous of
being accepted into the public eye – after all we had no way of expecting what
you were about to deliver to everyone.
Its come to the point
in my life now that I’ve stopped caring what others think, that sounds pretty
selfish but its about time I listened to what I want from myself and not
allowing others controlling every vector of my existence. Its fair to expect
not everyone is going to like my music – after all humans would be pretty
boring if we marched in herds like sheep – I just wanted to go out there and
deliver as best I could, for people to think ‘Yeah that girl isn’t full of
sh!t’ for them to see me who I am and if they can’t accept that, then that’s
their problem.
You’ve took the music
industry by storm but tell me Luna do you still have time for a social life?
Its surprising but
hell yeah baby! My friends are my stars in the night sky, they will always be
the absolute world to me and I would never trade their outstanding levels of
support they have blessed me with all these years for the instant fame I have
just so recently obtained. Fitting time around working in the studio and
promoting the up coming release of my album is tough I’ll admit but we always
manage to work around it. Me and
my closest friend Alannah – we’ve been buds since infant school yeah – are down
the town this weekend so feel free to come and join us (laughs to herself)
Thank you for the
invitation I’ll gladly consider it! A little birdy tells me you’ve made some A
List friends Miss Rays…?
Its weird but I don’t
see them as ‘celebs’ - now that I
am in the national media to me all these mainstream artists from whatever genre
they operate in are just human beings – we are all the same and a status just
doesn’t define us as individuals. Like last week for example I met my idol for
the first time (Lana Del Rey) I’ve admired her and her music for as long as I
can remember, she has had such a positive influence on my life and was one of
the major reasons I Just said to myself ‘Fxck it go out there and show everyone
what your made of!’. I walked into her press shoot as she was seeing our label
(Stranger) with my heart just pounding man I thought to myself ‘what is she
going to see in this no body’ I felt like such a twat but she just approached
me with a million cameras flashing in her eyes like some Roman goddess and said
‘Bitch you have what it takes’ I literally sh!t myself.
That must have been
quite an experience. How has your family took the fame?
To be honest they have
delivered such amazing responses to me I honestly couldn’t asked to have been
blessed into such a loving family network. My mum called me up the other day
after I had had a massive studio session and she said ‘Laura I honestly could
not say how proud I am to have you as my daughter’ God bless that woman I spent
rest of my night crying after that! But yeah they are so supportive and are
happy to see me succeeding and doing what I love’
So care to tell us
about your album, what can we expect?
(Laughs) well that’s
for me to know and you’s to all find out. Watch this space you got it?
As you can see above this is the first draft for my article on the upcoming female artist who is to be featured as the main interview in my music magazine 'Fleet'. I included a variety of questions ranging from personal life to what inspired her to acheive what she has to this day. Although I was overall extremely impressed with what i had produced I felt the feature was too long and that the audience would become bored and be distracted from finishing the entire thing. Not only that was a concern but when I proceeded to type up the article to the double page spread I was alarmed to find I did not have enough room to arrange the entire thing on. I attempted to cover this problem by doing a lot of resizing transformations to the text itself, unfortunately this made it too small and I felt as if the reader wouldnt be able to see the text as effectively unlike if it were larger, therefore discouraging them from reading the feature. To my dismay I had to cut a number of the questions out of the final production so that the article would fit comfortably on the page.
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