Another task which we need to complete within our music magazine project is to create a double page spread about our artist and genre. However I do not have much knowledge about this so some research was needed to learn some skills. We were given a choice of many articles to analyse, some included; Biography, Q&A, Interviews and album reviews but I chose to analyse an article which discussed top 10 rules for musician and rappers.
This is the article which I chose to do:
Q Magazine- 10 commandments ‘Wyclef Jean’ published in September 2017
This article talks about ‘10 rappers and musicians rules for life.’ Wyclef Jean is a rapper, musician and actor who was born in Haiti but raised in USA. The Article has no presence of a journalist as it is written in a first person narrative, so it is coming from Wyclef Jean and not another person. For this specific type of article which is ‘Top 10’, this narrative shows an interaction with the audience, a clear engagement with whoever is reading. The impact which this first person narrative has on the article clearly shows the reader a direct voice and that it is coming directly from Wyclef Jean. If the voice was a third person narrative their may be a slight speculation of false information and an inaccurate response. Q magazine have made sure this was not the case and with the use of it coming straight from Jean. In this specific article there is no clear introduction and conclusion due to the structure of it, it is not made to include these two features as it only wants to talk about factual information in a simplistic way- by going straight to the point. However, some may argue that on the front page of the article where there is an image of Wyclef, there is a mini introduction of which there is a quote from him. It is unlikely that with this structure that readers won’t actually read the introduction and conclusion if it was there because it is not what they are interested in reading in this specific article.
The location of this article is anonymous, we know this because the journalist is not present and it is a basic article of which questions were given and then answered by Wyclef Jean. It brings a lighthearted, optimistic sense to the written piece. Due to the style of the article, there is not much language based writing and it is very factual. This suits the style of the article very well because as readers we want to be knowing facts and not a story or a narrative. Also, the 10 facts of which he is stating are also not very long, it is quick and easy to read and therefore very quick to find out information. This style of 10 facts is dissimilar to many others, Wyclef Jean has cooperated with his own experience into the facts which really shows the reader that it does happen and makes it more interesting as they are able to see his own information. Quote in this article are used to add more information to the point Jean is talking about, stating his views, opinions and information about the certain tip. From this article many readers will go away with more information and will be involved in his top 10 rules of being musicians and rappers.
Due to their being no journalist present within this article it is all through Wyclef Jean that we are gathering the information from. He informs us about his life as a musician and rapper all together right from his perspective.