I have posted the interview to show the contents of it, however as I have posted this I have created the double page spread consisting of a background, interview layout, coloured fonts etc.
New girl band on the Indie Rock scene, ‘The Loveless’ take time out of their whirlwind to spend with SNARE! magazine. They talk about their new success, fashion and their future. SNARE! magazine warm quickly to their comedy and them as a band and wish them great success in the future.
After going to Starbucks (as they both walked in with large cappuccinos) they slumped down on our sofa’s.
Hard night?
Both: [Laugh] oh yeah!
Nothing a coffee can’t fix. Anyways, hi girls. To everyone you are known as The Loveless, but who make up the band?
Fran: Hey I’m Fran, the lead singer of the band.
Billie: And I’m Billie, we are both lead singers! Fran just says it first to make herself feel better, because we both know that I am the best singer.
Fran: Yeah, but I play guitar better.
Billie: This is true.
Ok, what about the rest of the band? Like drums, bass etc?
B: Oh them…well they’re not hot enough to be seen so they stay hidden at the studio.
F: Ha-ha! They might cause severe harm to peoples sight. Not a good look for the band.
B: We are only joking we love you guys!
So you are the face of the band. Are you enjoying your new success?
B: God yeah! [Sarcastically] That’s the only reason we are in a band for the fame, don’t really care about the music.
F: I’m going to be serious now, so shut up Bills. We love it; we love how people are not just recognising us but also our music. And the best thing is when people come up to us and sing our lyrics. That’s best part of it all.
And by this success you are obviously enjoying the parties.
F: Again it’s not the glamour of the parties that we love it is that other artists come up to us and tell us that they listen and enjoy our music.
B: Last night Florence (Florence and the machine) actually sung our song back to us. Now we are all best buds, got her on facebook and everything.
F: She is amazing.
Best friends with Florence get you. Made any other celeb friends yet?
B: Yeah Fran, she is a babe!
F: That don’t count we have always been best friends, since we were like four years old. [Jokingly] Too long for my liking.
B: Well I’m leaving you for Florence then, we can be ‘Florence, Billie and the machine’.
Gosh, since you were both four. So you must be really close.
F: Well we both have brothers, so we are basically sisters. But not blood related.
B: We are so close; sometimes I think that we are too close.
F: [Laughs] I know everything about her. Ask me anything and I will get it right.
B: What is my great uncle called?
F: [Thinks] FRANK! He knows best.
B: Go great uncle Frank.
So how did you start your band? Did you wake up one day and think ‘I want to start a band’?
B: We have always been performing together, talent shows, music concerts etc.
F: We started this band about three years ago, we were called ‘Rah!Rah!’. We tried to get signed for about two years before we got our break. But we had to change our name and look.
B: And here we are, with you!
And we are so happy that you are. You have a very individual approach to fashion, style and image. Did anyone inspire you? Or is it just a statement saying ‘this is who we are’?
Both: Erm.
B: We have always been interested in fashion, always keeping up with the latest fashion trends, hairstyles and all that. But we always put a twist of ourselves in what we wear.
F: We dress like how we feel. So I think that we have just created our style and image through our personalities.
B: So it’s a statement. ‘Cos we have big personalities. Also as we don’t stick to one style, a statement saying you can be whoever you want to be and wear whatever you want to.
In the future do you see yourselves bringing out your own clothing line, or something like that?
F: Who do you think we are? JLo? I don’t that is something we will do. Cos that will against everything we just said, saying that have your own style and all that. You can’t have your own style if you are wearing someone else’s clothes.
I see. So where do you see yourself in the future?
B: Doing what we are doing now. Making music, and pleasing our fans. That’s what it is all about for us.
F: [Laughing] But parties, celeb best friends and fashion are all important to us. Hopefully we will be more well known, that would be nice.
B: Yeah being a bit bigger.
F: I don’t want to get bigger, I like the size I am.
B: Funny… We have our first set of ‘big gigs’ in June, at The Apollo, which is exciting stuff.
F: And quite scary. But I can’t wait, it will be alive!
B: Woooooo!
Free tickets for SNARE! magazine?
F: We will see what we can do.
B: Of corse! We are like BFF’s (best friends forever) now, add me on facebook and follow me on twitter, then it is official babes.
Twitter follow us. www.twitter.com/SNARE!magazine. And then we will follow you, deal?
B: Deal or no deal?
Thanks for talking to us.
Download The Loveless’ single, ‘Counting every second’ on i-tunes.
Follow The Loveless on Twitter: www.twitter.com/theLOVELESSmusic
In the interview I used a very chatty tone from the band as they are young and youthful and I wanted to show this through their language, not just their image and fashion.
Collage
The layout of the double-page spread is that on the left hand side is a collage of photos (as this allows me to show my skills and the range of photos that I took) and on the other side the interview. To create the collage I used my new found skills using the polygonal lasso tool which I used to cut around the pictures giving it that scrap book effect as I layered the pictures. Here is the collage that I created:
Interview Layout
I chose to use the colours pink and black as they are girly but yet edgy, the different colour fonts allow the reader to distinguish between the band and the interviewer. On the collage side I put some quotes on it as quotes are a convention of interviews. The pictures that I chose from the interview are all bright and show a fun side of the band.
Here is my double page spread:
Consider putting this into straightforward prose (ie, use the interview, but write it up as an article, not as a Q & A feature. It can be tiring for readers, and is a format rarely used in journalism)
ReplyDeleteOf course it is entirely up to you how you present the interview in your finished magazine, but look closely at how the industry does present interviews of this type.