to consider a range of ways a DPS article can introduce an act and the effect the text could have on the reader

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7UhlZvshbjmVE5EakhBaXRTa0E/edit?usp=sharing

Aim: To consider what the purpose of a DPS is and the key features within them as an article.

 

 

• A DPS is a double page spread from within a magazine.
• It is two facing pages of a magazine where the textual material on the left continues to the right hand side.

Looking in NME magazine.

• Muse - This DPS is about Muse performing at the SECC on 09/11/09. It discusses an interview with the band, how the performance went and the new songs that they performed
• The Strokes - This DPS is about how band Member Hamish Macbain celebrates how ' Five boys from New York shaped the way indie looked and sounded in the noughties '

Analysing a DPS about The Arctic Monkeys                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

 The headline suggests that when they first started out as a band they were just doing it for a bit of fun and a hobby. Ten years later when they are now one of the biggest boy bands they say that they didn't anticipate that they would be this famous.
They talk about a variety of subjects such as when they were young teenagers all of them used to buy NME as they used to love reading it, they still have all the old copies. They also speak about how they thought it would be difficult for a replacement of Andy and how it would have been very difficult had they not found Nick.
The first line interests me by NME are referring to how they have followed/ been with Arctic Monkeys since they first began. This either tells me that in the article they will speak about how they first began and where they are to this day. This makes me want to read on because I like reading about successful bands past and how they started out.
In the article I would say that quotes are approximately 40% as the interview is extensive.



Barry Nicolson wrote this article, he has now stopped working for NME and did not win an award. He is a  journalist who has also worked for Dazed & Confused and The Independent. In addition to his ardent support of the VHS format, he is currently on a campaign to make country music cool again.

double page spread conventions

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7UhlZvshbjmUmxOaFpmS3Y1U2s/edit?usp=sharing - Miss Bennett