My interview piece titled "Too expensive" is about the vintage shopping cost and experience. I have used the piece to show how the rising costs in the vintage market have not only affected the buyers but also the sellers. As I interviewed a small business I thought about how the how the shopping experience is making up for the cost and help business owners explain their reasons for raising the prices on vintage clothing. My interview questions were limited and if I were to repeat this task again I would use more technical interview skills and ask a wider range of questions as mine gave me limited information. I used limited interview skills and only used a small range of open and closed questions which provided me not only with long quotes but with short quotes that can simply be imbedded into my article.
I would like the readers of this article to understand more about vintage businesses and the struggles they face. When researching for my interview i started eras each for a different business called the 19 fourths tea rooms but at a later date I found them hard to contact so ended up doing am improvised interview when out to doing photography for my assignment. I did my initial research by looking into local village businesses. I then thought about the struggles that a vintage business must have such as locating old stock and the rising popularity and cost of anything connected vintage. This allowed me to gather a basic outline of the questions that I could ask so that I gather the correct information for my magazine article. I started my interview with short yes or no questions that have a short answer and give me a leading point into the interview where further on I asked longer open questions which allows the opinions to flow. I also took note of non verbal communication to see how relaxed the interview and how passionate the answers were. If I could improve the way I did my interview I would put more preparation into it so that all of the answers received could be used within the article.
B) Think about your other articles too and consider their style.
All my articles had to link to the basic vintage theme of Rosie magazine, to do this I had to consider what I could write about this was mainly about vintage clothing and antiques. I also connected my critical debate by making the article a comparison of past times and today.
My first article is my feature article "living a vintage life" about buying vintage clothing. This tied into vintage fashion and also connected to my other articles about the rising expensive of vintage clothing. This article helps the younger audience that I'm trying to attract. These people want to buy vintage clothing at an affordable price. Throughout this article I have tried to use a relaxed chatty feel I all of my articles so that a younger audience feels relaxed as many do not read much. For all of my articles I have used the font times new Romen as this is easy to understand at all ages and gives a clear and simple finish.
My column pieces are all tied around the changes of vintage fashion this includes the rising prices and how vintage is different. These articles are short and easy to digest as most teens read little and do not like to read for long times. These pieces are also kept simple and are opinion based this gives the articles personality. I kept the language simple in these articles as they are easy to understand so it is faster to read this way.
My critical debate article "The perfect body" uses more complex language techniques as it is debating a serious subject matter. This article is used a reader think about their thoughts on this particular debate. The article is used to make someone consider a subject. I think this attracts the audience as they to know more so that they can make judgement.
Overall, if I was to do this project again I would improve my articles by not only changing their fonts so that there is a larger range but also by adding more detail and language skills making the magazine more intellectual.
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