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.
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