Interview Writing (Paper 1)

 

 IGCSE

Format

 

1.      Write the title of the interview

2.      Use the facts from the text.

3.      Use the three bullet questions to structure your writing.

4.      Answers to those questions must be written in the style of the person being interviewed.

 

 

Sample:

 

Five-minute Interview: Nina Nesbitt on Why Pop Music Needs More Personality

 

What’s it been like talking time out to write?

 

Really good! I have just literally been left for two years to do whatever I want to do whicg has been really nice because, for the first album, there was a lot of pressure, expectations and time pressure so it was really stressful making that album and I feel like it affected the music which came out in the end.

 

I just want to be able to produce my own music, make my own music and put out my own music. I don’t want to rely on anyone.

 

I just feel like now, because of the internet, it is so important that you are your own boss because everything is down to you; it’s not really down to a machine behind you now.

 

What made you switch sounds from your first album and how would you describe you new sound?

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I just felt like there were so many acoustic artists, or they were about a year ago, and I just wanted to do something different. I didn’t feel inspired by that music any more so I just changed it up.

 

I was really nervous to see what the fans would think because it is so different. But the reactions have been really good, really surprising at how many people embraced the change and how many new people have started listening to it.

 

 

I would say it is ‘pop-ier’ but it is also a bit darker. I think living here in London on my own has shaped the sound -  I wanted to create music that sounded like living in London.

 

It is such a buzzing city and it is really exciting and energetic but it has also got that kind of gritty side so I wanted to make that sound and, also, lyrically, talk about a subject I have experienced.

 

 

You seem to have developed a bit of passion for production. What are your plans with this?

 

I love it. I have been learning how to do it for the past two years. It is something that doesn’t just happen overnight, you have to keep practising until you become good enough to release.

 

I put one of them on the Modern Love EP, a track called Masquerade, and that was my own production and that was the first one I have ever released.

 

I just released it on demo because I didn’t think it was good enough but the feedback has been really good so I am hoping to produce half the album myself and half with my producer Dan (Weller), so that is a little challenge I have set myself.