My article for the music page focused on a ‘White British’ band called ‘Whatever Tomorrow Brings’. I did my research into the band by getting information from their MySpace and Facebook page, and I also listened to their debut EP which they uploaded to YouTube. I arranged the interview via MSN conversations with the band’s drummer, Andrew Swann. Prior to the interview, I wrote a list of questions down which relate to music and multiculturalism to prepare for it.
ON THE DAY: We originally planned to meet at the bull in the Bullring in Birmingham. Two band members turned up 40 minutes late, claiming the other 2 members were in a Digbeth pub. So plans were scuppered here as we were mean to do the interview on some seats in town then take the photographs at a nearby place that is as well-lit as possible, because unfortunately Chloe did not have a flash with her, and it was getting dark outside. So we ended up taking a 20 minute walk to the ‘Moseley Arms’ where I met the other 2 band members and we began the interview.
Unfortunately the band did not give me enough content for me to be able to construct an interview style piece, so I had to instead opt for a feature style of writing, with a few quotes combined. What this has taught me for any future interviews I conduct is to come up with as many questions as possible and also come up with some more pointers for topics etc that the subject can talk about.
Taking images was difficult without a flash as we had to find the best-lit place as possible, and this was against a wall in a lit corridor. Preferably I wanted a picture of the group together, but this was not possible due to the limited space we had available in this corridor, and we were unable to take the pictures outside due to the lighting dilemma. The photo-shoot would have been a lot more successful and we’d have been able to be much more creative if we had the external flash, but we worked with these conditions and did the best we could considering these unfortunate limitations.
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