Russell Brand Interview

Here is a political interview, including Paxman and Russell Brand. The main purporse of this interview is for Paxman and an audience watching to see why Russell Brand has decided to share his opinion and write a artical about politics and his veiw on todays goverment. Its also a way to share with a wider audience watching the 'BBC newsnight' to know and go and look at the magazine he helped edit and the artical he wrote. But also to elabrate more on what he is trying to say.

When interviewing Russell Brand, Paxman uses open questions to let him explain himself and his opinuion about politics, this allows Russell to explain himself in more depth. This interview was informational to an audiance about politics, but not all interviews are ment to be for political reasons and are intended to be hard news, but also for entertainment, asking a celebrity about there views on certain events or gossip happening. For example the Ellen show involving different famous people and talking about their personal life, who they are dating and information about thier recent work.

The medium of this interview in on television, their are many types of different reasons and themes that are show on television from entertainment to emotional. Some can be very serious and others can be light hearted. This one is about a serious political issue but shown in a lighthearted way, Paman is letting Russell Brand talk for himself by also creating a lighthearted convocation because of his past as a comedian.

When looking at  the journalistic context you focus on where you find that interview. In this case this interview was first show on T.V on the channel 'BBC newsnight', this section was run by Jeremy Paxman. This channel is also shown on free view and subscription T.V meaning that all audiances can watch this section. It has now been streamed onto different online websites like 'youtube' and 'Vimeo' so another range of audience can see the interview.  This show normal comes on air around 22:35PM meaning that the context and audience for this show and interview would be around  20 to around 50/60.