Over the last week, Chloe and I have been very busy organising and constructing our creative industries interviews.
We constructed a list of questions that we think were suitable for our topic.
Questions:
1. Introduce yourself - Name, age, field of interest, education
2. What drew you to your career?
3. As a child what did you want to be when you grow up?
4. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
5. Do you feel that in Ireland today, there is a general standard that defines success in terms of job, money and security? Do you feel this standard is pressurised among the youth of Ireland?
6. Do you define yourself as successful? How do you define success?
7. How did you first find yourself gaining success?
8. Do you plan on leaving Ireland for good? Why/why not?
9. Are you of the opinion that there is an environment for creativity to blossom in Ireland today?10. Have you experienced this? If so, did you have to find alternative methods of support?
11. Could you elaborate on this, do you think this is a necessary practice? Why do you think this happens?
12. What do you think could be done to invoke change in Dublin for young ‘creatives’?
13. Do you see many examples of creative initiative in Dublin today? Do you think more needs to happen? Is the government doing enough?
14. What advice would you give to those new and fresh to the creative scene in Ireland?
Ireland as we all know is a very small community. It’s been discussed quite a lot that many young people believe that in order to succeed in creative industries, they must look elsewhere.
Do you agree with this view?
Do you agree with this view?
Subset: “Partially. It depends on how hungry you are for success, whatever that means to you. We are constantly told we should move abroad where we our work will be well received
but for us we would prefer to fail doing what we want rather than succeed doing what we don't. Ireland is an integral component of that. Arguably the most important.”
15. What do you think of this view? Please elaborate if possible
After me and Chloe constructed these questions, we than began to contact the various people we wanted to interview. We contacted alternative creatives from all aspects, from fashion ehnthusiastics and graffiti artists to alt new upcoming musicians and DJ's. We used social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook to contact these artists, and luckily for us each artist was eager to take part!
In terms of design layout, we have started the basic design of our e-magazine. With all the material collected from most of the creatives we have been in touch with, we are nearly ready to add the interview results to our magazine alongside various images, videos and audio.
To make our magazine a multimedia project its important that various mediums are included in our magazine, so I decided that adding audio and videos to the magazine would work perfectly, but I was unaware on how to do this in Indesign.
I watched a short Youtube Tutorial on how to add video clips and audio to an Indesign project, I tested this out myself in Indesign and it was a success!
Now that we have gathered a lot of the material for our e-mag, we can start to build the layout in more detail and record our videos and audio for the magazine.
I look forward to the outcome of this project as I think it is a unique idea with a lot of potential!
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