Jude Rogers' Interview

Jude Rodgers is a journalist for magazines and newspapers and writes in the following: NME, The Guardian, and The Word. She kindly visited my school and spoke to our year 12 media classes on how and what she does to play her part in the making of the magazines. As NME is a music magazine it is very helpful to hear what she had to say on how to make your article sound the best and most interesting it possibly could.

She told us that she started writing in her own way and kept her own writing style. For our writing to stand out we should have our own unique writing style the way no one else writes. However, according to the target audience, genre or topic you are writing about she told us you would have to change the format of it. For example, an article in the Times to an older audience would use more formal, mature language, in contrast to Seventeen magazine which is aimed at teenagers which would be written in more slang, talkative format.

Therefore, she emphasised that it is very important to know who your target audience is in order to be able to write in a way the reader will enjoy it and feel it was made for them and that it is their type of magazine. This will also make it easier to know what to include in the article, for example what type of fonts, colours, images, style and format of writing.

Jude said to write out an interesting interview it is important to pick out little details of the person being interviewed and included some of them aspects in the articles. Such as their looks, behaviour and the way they answer the questions. Also by included weird or funny things about them such as bad habits, phobias etc could make the article more interesting and amusing to read.

So the aim of an interview would be to obviously get information on the artist but also something interesting or significant which has never been said before that no one knows of making your article interesting and different to the rest and stand out.

We were also told that we did not need to limit ourselves to a certain type of music when writing in a music magazine, as you can write about many different music genres in one same magazine this is because people are more interested in allot of different types of music now and not just one genre as it was around 20 years ago.

Jude also insisted on the importance of having an attractive, catching front cover to draw the audience attention she also said it could be as simple as we wanted as it did not have to be too clever. Moreover, the logo and title is also very important, it should be one word ,catchy and direct this will have a Strong affect on the audience making them relate and want to read the magazine.

Overall, Jude Rogers was very helpful, useful and a great inspiration to people who would like to do journalism. She gave allot of useful unimportant tips and hints on how to make your article the best over others by being able to make it stand out and appeal to your target audience. She also made it seem easy and possible and motivated me to do the best i could when making my own music magazine.