TASK 4 - One Direction interview with Daisy Wells

One Direction, the biggest band name around at this moment in time in the musical industry. After picking up their first BRIT Award and having number one hit singles in America, they are certainly doing very well for themselves. They have recently beaten the UK band The Beatles, after being the only band from the United Kingdom to have reached a number one in the American chart show. So, these five boys have come a long way from The X Factor, where they first all auditioned seperately. After being turned down and told to go home, the founder and one of the judges on the show, Simon Cowell, decided to put the five boys together and create a band and oh how I bet he is rubbing his hands together now.
Since recently releasing tickets for thier second world tour next year, the boys became millionaires over night. In just England alone, once the tickets were released to all UK fans, the boys made 19 million pounds overnight, all whilst they were sleeping.

However, to put a cloud over the boys sunshine, they are now being sued £630,000 by an American band....also named One Direction. The American band have said that, after the UK boys success in thier country, they feel like anytime anyone says anything about One Direction in America, they will be talking about the UK band and not the American band. They have said that they 'warned' their founder Simon Cowell that if they came to America with the same name, then they would be forced to sue. But Simon Cowell made no change to the name and carried on as normal, and it wasn't until the UK band scooped up that American number one, that the American band have now decided to take legal action.

As a fan of One Direction myself, I was shocked to here that this had happened. However, I did also understand why the American band were sueing the boys over this issue. The 5 UK millionaires, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Zayn Malik, have the help and support of Simon Cowell and were given a record deal even though they did not win The X Factor. However, the American band have had no support and do not have the money to promote themselves. So this money that they may gain will help them in rising in stardom, although I'm not sure people will even like them after being horrible to their favourite 5 British-Irish boys. And so I decided to ask a true One Direction fan, someone who has been there straight from the start and goes to see the boys with her fellow One Dirtection fan friends and scream down arenas and camp in sleeping bags just to catch a glimpse of them or go to a book signing 500 miles away from home. This person is none other than my siser,  Daisy Wells.

- Hello Daisy, I am going to ask you a few questions about the band One Direction and for you to explain your views and opinions on the issue that has been raised about One Direction being sued over having the same name as an American Band, okay?
Yeah okay. (She fidgets on her chair, looking eager to tell her views on the issus and to stick up for the boys that she admires and is totally in love with, as I'm sure any 14 year old girl is at the moment)

- Okay. Firstly, when did your love and obsession for One Direction start?
It started in October 2011, when The X Factor had just started again. Firstly, I saw each of the boys audition seperately on television for their first ever audition. I liked Liam Payne at the time, he was really good looking and he had an amazing voice. All 5 boys made it to the next stage of auditioning, where they performed by themselves in front of just the judges. They were all then called in and told that they weren't going through to boot camp. I was really dissapointed because I was starting to like them and thought that people around my age group would have appreciated them.

-But then they were called back weren't they?
Yeah, Simon Cowell called all five of them back and told them that he was going to put them into Boot camp, but as a band. I was so happy because I had seen all of the other boys auditioning and thought that they were also really good, but together I thought they could have been amazing, and I still got to see Liam Payne! The fan groups started immediately, everyone dedicated their Twitter accounts to update people around the world of what was going on with them and where they could be seen next around the world. Their stardom was growing quickly.

-Although they didn't win The X Factor and only came 3rd, why do you think that they have had such big success and even more so than the winner, Matt cardle?
Third place is a really good place to come in the competition, out of all those thousands of people who auditioned, to come third overall isn't a good shout. But the main reason I think is because they were young, and people were starting to like them even more and so instead of finding the love for them myself, I sort of followed the crowd to begin with because everyone was talking about them and I wanted to be involved in that, so I started to become a fan and stay up to date with where they were and what they were doing. I also think because they were so nice to their fans, even when they were just starting out, that people couldn't help but love them. They always dedicated everything thatr ever happened to them on their fans, and that made us feel special to them.

-So, because of this love that you and millions of other girls around the world have for them, what are your views on the band being sued over having the same name as the American One Direction band?
I think that if the American boys would have complained sooner, when the UK One Direction weren't that famous and were slowly making a name for themselves, then it wouldn't have mattered and it could have been changed, because people wouldn't have become so attached to the name and associating the boys with that name. But I think it was all a game plan to wait until they became really famous and to wait until they came over to America and win that number one single, because that way the American band could get more money out of Simon Cowell and the boys,

-But apparently the American band asked Simon Cowell to change the name before they came out to America?
But they still waited too late. And they never did anything to follow it up when they first asked Simon Cowell. They could have made an issue out of it when the boys started to really become famous, but instead they waited until the boys came to America and were well known around the globe as this amazing boyband and then decided to deliver the killer blow. But I honestly don't think that they have done themselves any favours. The UK girls hate that American band now, saying that they are picking on One Direction when all they want to do is make music to please their fans.

-So leading on to my next question, do you think the American One Direction have ruined their changes of becoming a success by sueing the UK boys such a large amount of money?
Yes I do. If they had complained when the boys were only mildly famous then people wouldn't have minded so much. But they obviously thought that by complaining when they had so much money would mean that they could promotoe themselves with the money given to them and then make a living out of their band. But no one will want to listen to them now. People are angry at them for putting a downer on the boys trip to America and even the American fans are angry at them, saying they are ashamed to be American when people ruin other people's happiness.

-But can you understand why the boys wanted to sue? The UK One Direction have support from Simon Cowell and money coming in from every angle. But these guys created themselves and have no one there to promote them.
No I can't understand it really. If they are that passionate to become a band that is well known and is a huge success then they need to work for it. The UK band were just lucky that they were spotted at having great talent and then being put into a band. But they made that leap to sign up and audition for The X Factor. Those American boys need to stop complaining and get themselves noticed and get an agent and become promoted. That is the way to do it to become a 'real' band. Not complaining over silly things to get money. They need to move over and accept that One Direction will always belong to the UK boys and it is them that needs to change their band name now. Our boys beat them to it.

So after that interview I learnt that One Direction fans will probably all think the same. They are adament to stick behind their boys 100% and are prepared to say and do anything to make sure that they are happy. But they are biased in their opinions and I am sure that if I interviewed fans of the American One Direction, then they would say things which supported the American band and put down the UK band. From my perspective, I think they just need to figure it out between themselves and whatever is decided in court will be and the fans will have to accept it.

Task 3 - One Direction interview

Purpose - The main purpose of this interview was to find out why there was such big controversy about two bands having the same name and what a big fan thought about the UK One Direction band being sued over it. As it is mainly younger people that like One Direction, as it has come across on social networking sights such as Facebook and Twitter, and also there are only ever stories in teenage magazines about the boys and what is happening in their lives, older magazines such as Heat and OK!tend not to have any stories about them as they may feel that people would go off the magazine if it was basing itself around young boys.
So this interview would be likely found in teenage magazines or on programmes which attract these age groups, such as MTV, which also has programmes such as 16 and pregnant and My Sweet 16.


Interview Planning - As I was interviewing my sister I needed to choose a time in which she didn't have any homework to do for school and where I had time outside of college and work. We decided to sit down one evening and do it then.
Firstly, I had to think of the questions that I was going to ask. I had to make sure that they were written so that they were understood by Daisy, the person that I was interviewing, because she was only young and so the questions had to be written in simplier terms than if I was interviweing an older person. This was the only planning I really had to do, apart from getting my research together so that I could structure my questions properly, because Daisy lived with me and so I didn't have to travel anywhere to ask someone the questions and she was willing to be part of my interview because she was such an avid fan of One Direction and was keen to help me with my work.


Structure - As the answers to my questions were going to be written down, I decided to firstly introduce Daisy and ask her how old she is, what she does in her spare time and how long she has been a fan of One Direction and what made her fall in love with them so much. I then decided that I would write this interview as you would see it in a magazine, with the questions being asked in one colour and the answers in another, so that you could tell which was which. I also decided to include pictures of the interview subject. Before I decided on whether or not to include pictures of Daisy, I needed to ask her mum's permission, incase she didn't want Daisy's face being broadcast over the internet.

Preperation - The preperation that I needed to do was to brief Daisy with the questions that I was going to ask her, so that she had a rough idea of what she was going to say as her answers. Although I did explain to her that, although I was writing her answers down, I was going to edit them into short passages so that the answers come across as simple and clear and get straight to the point. I also had to have her consent that what she said was going to be posted online and that there may be people from all over the world that would read my blog.

TASK 3 - Quicken Trust interview

Purpose - The main purpose of this interview was to make people aware of the charity that we were interviewing and making a documentary on. This is the outcome we wanted to achieve and so we thought, as well as the documentary, that we would create an interview with the founders of the charity and place this on Youtube so there were more ways than one for people to find out about The Quicken Trust.
As we had made a documentary on this charity, we decided that we should include the interview into it, so that, again, people could see it in more places than just YouTube once we had finally uploaded it. And so people would mainly see this interview on a television documentary, or it could be made into a documentary film about what they do out there and how they help people in Uganda.
We wanted to inspire people about what these founders of The Quicken Trust do and how they take volunteers out every year so that people can help in the jobs that they do. It is also to explain to people why Uganda has ended up in the poverty stricken way it is in now and how we can help them.

Interview Planning - As we had to travel to the headquarters for the Quicken Trust, which  is situated in Hailsham, we had about 2 weeks emailing both Geoff and Geraldine, the founders of the charity, to organise a date which suited both of us. This was a bit of a struggle as we all had college and they had 2 weeks to spare before they flew out to Uganda and stayed there for 3 months on another project that they were starting. We finally decided on a saturday morning, which we discussed with our work managers, and we were all free. We travelled up there in two cars, as we could all drive, Lauren and I in my car and then Johnny in his car with all of the camera equipment because he had top of the range recording equipment and it took up a lot of space. We needed a place that was well lit and where there was no noise which would interfere with the recording. They decided to take us into their living room as it was hidden away from the main road and it was really quiet, which was perfect. We then had to set up the camera equipment and check the sound settings, which didn't take too long because we were all trained on how to use a camera and check the settings.

Structuring - For the opening of our interview, we asked them to introduce themselves and explain what it is they did within the charity and what the Quicken Trust was. This, we thought, would be a good opening to our documentary and we could easily edit this and have a video of what the Quicken Trust did after this introduction. Once they had done this, we asked them many questions about what they did within the charity and what they got volunteers to do, each question was gradually built up to give an overall description of the charity and what their aim is and where they achieve to see themselves in 5 years time.

Preparation - Before we started the interview we asked each of them to sign a talent release form which showed our tutor that we had their permission to film them in their house and to broadcast everything that they said. We agreed that we would email them the documentary before we put it on YouTube and broadcast it to the college at the end of year show, so that they could listen to it and tell us if we had got all the information right and whether they were okay with themselves being seen on YouTube. We briefed them on the questions that we would be asking them and allowed them time to think of what they were going to say, making them feel relaxed by complimenting their home and asking them questions away from the interview, about their interests and everything. This was a light hearted yet educational interview which contained humour but also inspired and educated people about the charity.

TASK 4 - Sherlock Nudity radio interview

http://youtu.be/00QuwUyYz1Y - This is the link to my Sherlock Nudity interview with Lauren that I have uploaded onto YouTube. 

TASK THREE - SHERLOCK NUDITY INTERVIEW

Purposes - The main purpose of this interview was to find out what other peoples views on The Daily Mail article on the Sherlock nudity were. As we had to do a radio interview of some sort, I thought this would be a good idea because you don't have to see any images for this interview, just to listen to it. 

This would be the type of interview that would be found on a radio station, having being pre recorded and being played back to the audience. Only on some radio stations that have debates like this, so not a radio station like Radio One. More like Radio Two, as they have weekly debates about issues and this could be a good one to bring up. 

Also, on some television programmes which broadcast the news, such as BBC and ITV, they have voiceovers of what people have been recorded saying in interviews, with only a map of where they are talking from being shown to the audience. On YouTube, they only allow you to upload videos, and so for a voice recording you would have to make a small video to take up the time that the interview goes on for. This would be good to show some of the pictures that were being spoken about in The Daily Mail so people can see them and decide if they are really that bad, whilst listening to what someone else from the public has to say about it. They can also then comment on the video and express their views which would  be good for someone who is doing this as part of their assignment as they would have more views to write about.

Interview Planning - I needed to first ask for the permission of the person that I was going to interview. Once I had got this I needed to think of some appropriate questions to ask her, relating to the subject. I really wanted to ask her questions which allowed her to open up and tell me exactly what she thought and so I decided to introduce her to the interview and to get involved with the questions that she was asking and nodding at her answers, so that she wasn't so uptight the whole way through the interview and could relax a bit. 

The next thing that I needed to consider was where I was going to record her, because as it was during college time that I did it, people were constantly walking around and making noise. So I decided to ask if I could book out the radio booth and record inside of that. The walls are soundproof and it gives a nice crisp sound to the audio once it has been recorded. 

I decided to record on my Iphone because it offered me the recording device I needed and it was easy to email to myself once it had been saved so that I could then import this to YouTube and paste the link onto my blog. 

The date and time for the interview was discussed with Lauren, the girl that was being interviewed, and we decided that we would meet on the 16th, which was a Monday, as we both finished college at 1pm and so we could both walk down to the radio booth together. When we started our first recording and listened back to it, we realised that where I had been holding the phone close to me the whole time, you couldn't hear Lauren very well. So we decided to record it again and pass the phone between one another this time and speck clearly into the mouthpiece. When we listened back to it, it sounded much better and we were able to edit the end bit where it had some background noise from me. 

I required Lauren to be honest and truthful in her views on the issue that was raised and to speak clearly and slowly, all of these things I briefed her on before I started recording. 

Structuring - As I briefed Lauren on the questions, I realised that her answers were a considerable length and so I decided to only ask her around 6 main questions because I didn't want the interview to go on for ages and to bore the listener, I wanted them to be intrigued and interested in what Lauren had to say and to learn something from what was being spoken about. 

There was no introduction, it started off by me just asking the questions straight out. She was then given time to answer and then I asked the next question. When the interview had finished I thanked her for her time. I had an overall question which was 'So overall, do you think that the issue was dropped because of the respect that the actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have?' This was the ending question because it explains that the issue was dropped and I wanted to know if she thought this was the reason and if not, why?

Preperation - As I said above, I first asked Lauren if she would mind answering a few questions. I explained to her the issue that I was exploring and the questions that I would be asking, to see if she had any questions or issues about answering these. Also, once we were in the radio booth, I briefed the questions to her so that she wasn't taken by surprise when I started recording and that she had a good idea what she was going to say as her answer. 

Task 2 Research - One Direction being sued over band name

One Direction are a 5 piece British boyband who formed during the X Factor and came 3rd overall. Although they did not win they have done incredibly well all over the world and are currently doing their world tour.

Whilst visiting America, an issue was brought up about the boys having the same band name as another 5 piece boyband from the USA. The US band has stated that One Direction knew that they had the same name but decided to go along with choosing the name because they didn't think that they would ever travel to America because they never anticipated how succesful they would actually become. However, they travelled to America for a month and arrived home last week before travelling straight to Australia for their concert in Sydney.

Once the boys had landed in America, the US One Direction had the right to sue the english band because they were now in their country and making fame out of their name. The US boyband stated that 'the British lads have the likes of Simon Cowell backing them up and supporting their career. We have no one. They can afford to pay us the money that we are asking for and still be successful, this could be our chance to make it.' They also said that the money wasn't the main reason that they are sueing the Bristish boy band. They said that what they do in their band is out of love and passion, and the money will just help them along their way to stardom.

The case is being taken to court, along with Simon Cowell, and are being charged £600,000 in damage costs and also three times the profits made by the boys.

Task 2 research - The Quicken Trust

Quicken Trust was founded as a registered charity in 1996 with no intention of working in Uganda. It started as a support to help develop new UK based charities.

Following a visit to Uganda in 1999 and a further visit in 2000 its focus changed to assisting the community of Kabubbu ~ 'The Forgotten People' ~ in their search for a way out of poverty, destitution, death and despair to self-determination and hope for their future.

They did this by advertsing themselves through schools and colleges and workplaces so as to make themselves known and to inform people about what it is that they do. They take small groups of volunteers out to the village of Kabubbu in Uganda, and set them jobs to do whilst out there. Some jobs may be building houses, building orphanages, teaching children subjects in their schools or going to the local market to buy families essential supplies.
In 2004 it re-registered with the Charity Commissioners (Registered Charity No. 1102474) and as a Trust Company Limited by Guarantee (Registered Company No. 5047081). Their focus is to partner with the lives of those in need.

Among the population there are over 1,500,000 children who have been orphaned because their parents have died of AIDS or HIV. Some have one parent remaining, although in most cases this parent is also ill with AIDS or the HIV virus with only a short amount of life left to live and a large family to bring up and support.

In 1906 in his book 'My African Journey' Winston Churchill called Uganda 'The Pearl of Africa'. And it was. But since then and particularly during the 1960's and 1970's under the regimes of Presidents Idi Amin and Milton Obote the pearl lost its lustre. And it has been struggling to find a new future for itself from those terrible years of devastation.Landlocked Uganda sits across the equator. It is about the same land area as the UK and has a population of over 30,000,000. It is a population racked with AIDS. Tens of thousands of people die from this disease each year and for many years now the country has been recognised as the worldwide epicentre of AIDS.Over 5% of the children in Uganda are living without a future. In Kabubbu alone there are more than 400 impoverished orphans.