Building the Feature Article

It's time to get past the one thing that I've been dreading: the feature article. Actually, I lied, I dread doing just about anything related to this portfolio. I know that's a very negative outlook, but I just have so much homework these day that I find it difficult to enjoy even creating a magazine. But anyways, thats enough complaining (someone needs to count how many times I've said that).

Before I can even start working on my feature article - which was going to be about fast fashion and how it's drastically changed fashion trends - I need to do some research on the topic itself. So this post will be sort of a research post on all the information I need to build up my feature article. As always, all the resources used will be linked below.

The Feature Article will begin from the perspective of an interviewer talking to the interviewee, who will be Addisyn Kostzer. I will be asking her questions about fast fashion and it's effect on the fashion industry. After doing some research, I found mixed results on how long a double-page feature article spread should be, but I found a website that showed how each word count looked and examples. The average is said to be 600 words, but they can range from 350 to 900 words. I think I'll just stick to the average and get to 600 words.

I want the article to be interview style, where the question is listed and then the person's answer is written underneath. I've seen two different examples that use this format, and I think both of them came out super cute!

The next thing to consider is what questions I could as as the interviewer? I guess I could include questions such as:

How has do you think fast fashion has changed the industry?
How has this impacted clothing?
Do you think fast fashion has taken away from originality?
How has fast fashion affected the environment?
Do you think fast fashion is ethical?
How can people make more ethical choices when it comes to fashion?
Do you think fashion will improve in the future?

These are just some basic ideas that I've had so far. I will most likely improve the wording and such. And instead of having Addisyn play the part of a model now, I will make it clear that she's a model AND a fashion expert, so that it makes sense for her to have this much knowledge on fashion.

I did tell Addisyn to do some research on fast fashion so she had prior knowledge before we did the interview. I found some websites that provide general information on fast fashion and its effects, so I sent those to her. Some key points that I want her to consider are:

Fashion used to be all about originality. Now it's just about following trends.
Clothing quality has gotten significantly worse.
People switch through closets too fast now, and waste lots of money because of it.
Fast fashion is unethical and harmful to the environment.
There is a necessary mind shift switch if we want to bring back original and ethical fashion.

Now that I have a basic idea of all the interview questions I want in my double spread feature article, this task will be a lot easier to manage. Next, I need to actually interview Addisyn, which I'll be doing tomorrow. I'm going to fully write out the entire article, and make sure it is basically perfect enough to put right into the magazine.

Thanks so much for tuning in, catch you later!

Resources:

https://getcapstone.com/5183-2/#:~:text=But%20if%20you%20want%20to,again%2C%20across%20many%20different%20publications.

https://environment.upenn.edu/events-insights/news/fast-fashion#:~:text=Enter%20the%20phenomenon%20of%20fast,up%20with%20the%20latest%20trends.

https://earth.org/fast-fashions-detrimental-effect-on-the-environment/

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/fashion-clothing/what-fast-fashion-why-it-problem