Thursday, 17 February 2011

First attempt of Article!



 

 

 
_(Insert band name)_, the newest, hottest band to come out of England yet! With the release of their first album _(Insert album name)_ in late march, _(Insert band name)_ are sure to hit the lime light in no time even though they are all under 19. We spoke to Scott Jennings the lead singer/rhythm guitarist about the band.

How do you feel such fame so early into your career has impacted you all?
It just crazy! Real life doesn’t seem real anymore. Its all only just hit us in the past few weeks, but the good thing is none of us have taken it too our heads. We’re still that little band playing in Danny’s garage.

Where do your inspirations come from as a band?
Well my person inspirations have always come from M. Shadows from Avenged Sevenfold, but we all have our own separate inspirations, Dj’s being The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Tom’s being Guns ‘N’ Roses and Danny’s being System Of A Down. Without the wide range of differences in all these band I don’t think that we’d be who we are as a band and individuals today.

What do you guys do for fun outside of the band?
Well I love to be around other friends when I’m not with the band mainly but I also do martial arts. Our bassist Dj plays American Football though, he is huge so I’m sure that sooner or later he’ll break someone! Tom on the other hand also plays the Violin and plays in an orchestral band.

The release of your album is coming up, anything we should look out for on it?
Actually yeah, track 4 was a personal favourite of mine and the rest of the band so definitely check that out. Also make sure you look inside the sleeve, there is a secret prize up for grabs and info on it is inside there.

What the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
Well most things I can’t really mention, but Tom once dressed as a werewolf and the rest of us put lab coats on and we chased him down the street Manchester. It was hilarious; he sat in a library with a book on wild wolves while everyone who walked past looking at him. Danny also was once in a chip shop and was being given grief off the guy behind the counter so Danny decided he would go to the toilet inside his shop.

If you weren’t where you are today and your band didn’t exist, what do you think you’d be doing?
That’s are hard one. I would have probably followed my first career path of being a martial arts teacher. I know that Danny would have been some sort of stunt man; he feels the need to jump off everything he sees, even if the object is 12ft tall!

Do you feel that an image for a band is important?
Yes and no. Its hard to stick to one type of image with a band full of totally different people, but I do think that every band should have some sort of image, even though we don’t have one because we are all to different to decided on one.

With social networking systems like Facebook and Twitter that give fans a direct link with bands like you do you find it hard to have a private life?
Not really, we do have a band Twitter and Facebook and we do post information on our up coming gigs and stupid things we’ve got up to and we get a lot of responses but we don’t have thousands of fans sat watching for a new post to come in yet so we don’t really have any problem with keeping certain things private.

Do you think its better to come out of nowhere to becoming famous like you did or to become famous on programs like Britain’s Got talent and American Idol?
I feel its much better to just appear than going on programs like Britain’s Got Talent, if you just appear people have to search around to find out about you whereas people who go on Britain’s Got Talent are opened up to the public before they even make it so everyone already knows everything about them before they even get started. A sense of mystery is always a good thing to have.

Where do you think you and the band with be in the next 5 years?
I hope we'll be playing a huge gigs like Download and we'll have lots of fans and followers so we can keep writing music and having the most fun we've ever had and probably will ever have.


Friday, 11 February 2011

Images Similar To Those Going In My Magazine!


I have selected these image because I feel that they will be similar to those that I will be taking to place in my magazine. I am not going to do my main cover image and double feature page image in a studio as I feel location shots are better but some of my cover pages image will be shot taken in a studio.

Similar to these all the subjects within my photo will be looking directly towards to camera. My image shall look most like the first image; location shot with all subjects lined up or scattered around.





Font Selections!


Fonts selected for main title.








Beyond Wonderland
Facelift
Uneasy



Font selected for article text
Verdana
Tahoma
Arno Pro Smbd Italic
Adobe Garamond Pro Bold
Cambria
Baskerville Old Face
Garamond Premr Pro
Minion Pro Med
Modern No. 20
Times New Roman
Palatino


Thursday, 10 February 2011

Feedback 9.2.11

Kurt, I know you are playing catch up because you had some time off ill. If you work a little on this each day then you will soon catch up. Ideally, I'd like you to be writing the draft article next week and taking photos. You need to be working on the page layout and design of your magazine when we return from half term. See me if you need any clarification or help with any of the planning tasks.

Mrs A

Which Institute Will Produce My Magazine?

IPC will be the institution that will produce my magazine due to its large selection of magazine interests. Looking through their website I noticed they produce magazines such as "NME" and "Uncut" which are both music magazines that will be quite similar to my own. Therefore there is room for my magazine within their bracket of interest due to them already having interest in similar magazines to my own and not having that many so there isn't much competition within their institution.

Friday, 4 February 2011

Music Magazine Questionnaire Results

I decided to do the graph on the age groups and the music genre each age group selected to show how the age group I'm aiming for want to magazine I'm creating.

Music Magazine Questionnaire

Thursday, 3 February 2011

Double Page Feature Analysis!

This is my analysis of a Double Page Feature article. I shall be using several things similar to this in my own version. I shall be using a large image of the band/artist I am interviewing but will probably be placing it in the certain of the page rather than on the left, i shall be placing a huge title on one of the most interesting question within my article at the top left hand side of my page to attract readers, I shall be placing my actual article around the image of my band/article (depending on where I place the image). I shall be using a similar colour scheme or colours that will match the other pages on my Double Page.

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

Content Page Analysis

This is my analysis of a rock music magazine's content page. I will be using quite similar features to this within my music magazine, I will definitely be using the idea of put an image with all the pages of importance (even though they won't actually be created). I will also be using a consistent colour scheme that matches my front cover on the contents page. I will also have a side panel that holds all the rest of the page to my three page magazine. Finally I will be using deals, offers, freebies and prizes to attract readers.