Evening bloggers. Tonight I am blogging while watching my current favourite programme, The Exclusives, which is shown at 9pm on ITV2.
This week, the six aspiring journalists are still competing for their dream job, but their assignment is slightly different from last time, where they experienced working at More! magazine. Tonight, they join the editorial team at rock mag Kerrang!, and are given the task of interviewing two up-and-coming bands.
I must say, this magazine is far more 'up my street,' so I have been very much looking forward to this episode.
Apart from the inevitable never ending adverts for sofas, beauty products and alcohol, the episode got off to a good start with the budding journalists having the task of going out on vox-pops - something every journalist who has ever done work experience will be completely
The six were split into two teams and one lucky rookie from each team then got the chance to interview Charlie Simpson from Busted and more notably on the rock scene, Fightstar. While the others bickered, Stuart from team 1 and cocky Christopher from team 2 really sunk their teeth into the rockstar. Having done their research (minus a couple of blips) the two really did carry out successful interviews with Charlie, who seemed impressed with the interviewers' delivery.
The journo's then were asked to do a photoshoot with two rock bands Demonic and Welsh rockers The Blackout, one of my personal favourites. The Blackout provided the team with a long shopping list to keep their taste buds happy, but 'Demonic,' who met team 2 in a tattoo parlour, gave the rookies some slightly different requests, asking them to wear gothic make-up and making Felix look 'more mosh than posh.'
Both teams worked hard to win 'Rookie of the week' and definitely stepped up and in some cases even grew up, to wrap up their photo-shoots efficiently.
Then came the more difficult task, as two lucky journo's got to interview the bands for a feature which will be going into the next Kerrang! magazine. They were told to be ask questions specific to the readership of Kerrang! and therefore asked 'who leaves more s**t stains in the loo'... interesting choice there.
Describing the music as being 'very loud' and sounding like 'a monster,' the rookies slightly struggled with their feature for Kerrang! Team work went to pot, as Stuart wrote most of the article himself.
However, the final features were more successful and were assessed for their flair, content and style of writing. Mentors Abby and Hannah decided that Ellie was Rookie of the Week, as her confidence and accuracy during all tasks shone through.
Net week is the end of the road for one of the rookies, but who is going to crash and burn with the next set of tasks? Next week's The Exclusives will be hot off the press at the same time on ITV2 next week. Will you be tuning in or zoning out? I think I'm slightly hooked!
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