Blog 8 - Planning and evaluation of the article

I have chosen my subjects at college to coincide with my aspiration of becoming a writer when I am older, so writing my double page pread article is important and a critical peice of the magazine process for me. I have based the character of The Big V around Vadim (the person photographed) to make it seem more valid and realistic. While writing it, I tried to capture the sense of a Russian person that has made it big in a foreign country. This can give off a sense of arrogance, but arrogance is accepted in a magazine based around urban music. It is a requirement of the people featured in them to 'big themselves up'. While doing this, I also tried to capture the business side of him, as he is a self made man who has done so by his business skills within his club in russia, and the promotion and marketing he has done around his own music. This is intertwined with creativity to create the character of The Big V. At the start of the interview he corrects the interviewer, telling him to call him 'V'. I have decided to include this to give him a further atmosphere of a controversial person. He is not the type of person that would normally be included in a hip hop magazine such as vibe, but my magazine is focussing on a different side of hip hop, the side away from gangster rap such as 50 cent and more on lyrical genius and people who put intelligence and creativity into the music they create. This is why I have made V such a strange character, because my magazine appeals to the kind of person that would read it. There is not a magazine for dubstep, or underground hip hop, so I do not have any interviews to base it on. While he can still 'big himself up' I still tried to give him this secondary sense of intelligence and ingenuity.