Section 2 - Journalistic context

Journalistic Context - is the various types of concept that are in the medium such as having a television interview you would explain what the medium is, what the purpose of the interview is and who is invoked in the interview as well key features of the interview. The difference between the journalistic context and the interview style is some aspects overlap each other. This involves all the aspects that are needed in the television interview such as channel, what the style of the interview is etc.

Television Interviews- There are a range of television interviews on TV today. This varies between different styles and forms depending on the interview type as well as channel it is aired on. The style of an interview varies such as having light hearted and entertainment interviews such as 'chatty man' and the 'Graham Norton Show', these interviews are created for entertainment purposes, the questions asked are very light hearted and easy to answer. With this you also have interviews that are Hard news interviews, this is when there is an interview between a politician as they are very informational interviews such as 'BBC newsnight' with Jeremy Paxman as an interviewer.

Radio- Radio  is usually promoting artists and upcoming artists with a single or an album that is coming up, this is so it promotes the artist and allows their fan base to grow. The interview would either be live on air or pre-recorded. Not all radio television is related to music, there are some radio stations which are on a more political and informational level for example LBC is a radio station which provides an hour with Boris Johnson to ask him whatever question you want.

Online- Having an interview online allows it to have a wider audience range as anyone could have access to it, for example the interview can be on more that one site such as YouTube, Vimeo or a blog etc. this allows anyone to have access to it. All styles of interviews are aired online which means there is no limit on what the audience can watch. YouTube is a major platform for all types of interviews to be uploaded on, this is very beneficial as the interview would have wider range of audience as people would have access to it across the world which builds the fan and audience base.

There are so many ways in which interviews present information, for example radio interviews can be very light hearted and funny but also have some radio interviews that can be very serious and emotional as well as political this varies on the radio station. This also relates to other methods of interviewing such as television interviews and online, the difference with this is, TV interviews; it allows you to build a friendship between the interviewer and the interviewee in order to make them feel comfortable and layer back and answering question an example of this is 'Alan Carr' uses a gimmick of an alcohol trolley which is what he pulls out at the beginning of the interview, by offering his guests a drink it builds a friendly bond between the two before the start of the interview.