My Interview for double page spread

Interview for double page spread

1.     How old where you when you started to get into music?

I’ve always been into music since I was a child! My family is very music orientated as all my brothers also play instruments and are in bands like me. I guess that it was my dad who encouraged us with music as we would always have the radio on in the house whenever my dad was home. Rock has always been my favourite music! Since I was a kid people like bon jovi and aerosmith has always inspired me.

2.      What was it like being so young yet touring a country on your own?

Yes and no really, the band I toured with was only new and we had only been together for about 2 years! When we got the chance to go on a tour around Germany we couldn’t really resist! It was scary at first as I was only 17 but I enjoyed it a lot as it was my first taste of a proper music career.

3.      What made you join a tribute band?

Well I grew up in the era of rock so it was basically my childhood. So as soon as I got the chance off my friend to join this band which was already quiet well known, I couldn’t really say no!

4.      Did you feel under pressure to be exactly how 70's rock was?

Yes!  My age are very into the rock so all the songs we performed are well known, so to make sure that we perform the songs accurately to make sure the audience was enjoying the songs and also the atmosphere.

5.      Is there anything in music careers that you regret?

To be quite honest I don’t! I’ve took all the chances I’ve had! I think that if I regretted anything then I wouldn’t of enjoyed my careers as much.

6.     What has been your favourite part of your career?

Defiantly touring Germany as a young boy!

7.     Who is your favourite rock artist now?

Bon jovi! Like I said at the start of the interview artists like him have inspired me throughout my lifetime. 

Article Research

For my double page spread in my magazine I am interviewing Jed, a solo artist from the Wirral. Jed has done a lot of things in his music career from touring Germany when he was 18 to joining a 70's rock tribute band called KooKaChoo!

Contact: It was easy for me to contact Jed as I already know him. To arranged to meet up to conduct the interview and to take pictures I just contacted him via text to arrange a date which suited us both.

Interview Quesions:
1.How old where you when you started to get into music?
2. What was it like being so young yet touring a country on your own?
3. What made you join a tribute band?
4. Did you feel under pressure to be exactly how 70's rock was?
5. Is there anything in music careers that you regret?
6. What has been your favorite part of your career?
7. Who is your favorite rock artist now?


Images:

Planning Production

In this lesson I made the decisions for cover lines for my double page spread and also what coverlines would be in m contents page. I had to change the subline on each coverline for the front cover and the contents page so this took awhile as I needed to think how I could make it different yet still explain the same thing.


 

Publication Plan

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Publication Plan

Publication Plan

Title: BackBeat

Positioning Statement:  Rockin’ the Beat

Frequency of publication: Monthly

Price: £2.50

Distribution:  Newsagents, supermarkets, airports and online subscriptions

Rationale:  The magazine is from the perspective of the fans and will contain interviews that will ask the artist/band questions that we think fans would ask. The magazine has monthly updates on the latest information in rock.

Style:  Informal/chatty to attract buyers. I will use contractions such as ‘don’t ‘instead of ‘do not’. My magazine will contain stereotypical colours of rock, e.g black, white and red, and also bold fonts. The magazine gives the reader the most up to date rock information every month.

Regular Content

·         Upcoming artists

·         Behind the scene

·         Concert dates

·         Latest Gossip

·         Rock Fashion

·         Free posters

·         Editors letter

·         Letters from fans

·         Puzzles

·         A monthly column

Featured Content

·         Article about the artist Jed

·         Newest guitars from Gibson

·         Poster of Avenge Seven Fold

·         Paramore’s make over

·         New albums released in 2014

·         The day I met Marilyn Manson

·         Aerosmith

House Style

Coverlines:  Bell Gothic Std Black

Headlines: ARIAL BLACK (BOLD)

Standfirst: Arial black

Captions: Calibri (body) italic

Features first paragraph: Bell Gothic Std Black

Body text:  Calibri

Colour scheme: Red, Black and White.



In this lesson I produced this Planning Production. This will help me with the planning of my magazine as I chose coverlines that will be placed on my Front cover on my magazine, and also the coverlines which will be in my contents page. I then chose what font I will have for each part of my magazine e.g for the masthead and the font for the double page spread.

Review of Inital ideas for magazine.

The price of my magazine will be £2.50 as during my research of other magazines the price varied between £2 and £7. I chose this amount as I thought that it would be a reasonable price to charge my customers as I did not want to over or under charge them. From my questionnaire I am still going to keep the price of my magazine the same as from my questionnaire most people were willing to pay £2-£3.

This price is a reasonable price as my magazine will only be published once a month but each issue is an average size issue containing around 60 pages so each issue has a lot of content and information for the target audience to read.  I have chosen to make my magazine like this as most of the magazines that I had researched had average sized, detailed issues but the issues where released monthly so the reader can receive frequent up to date information. After my questionnaire I am going to change this and issue my magazine monthly and just shorten the length of the magazine to around 40 pages. I’m doing this as from my questionnaire most people buy a magazine monthly.

The regular content of my magazine will include gig/concert dates as from my research all of the rock genre magazines I looked at contained some sort of information on artists tour dates. Also in my regular content will be a page on upcoming artists, and a behind the scenes on a music video. I think that these featured articles will keep my audience interested and wanting to read the next issue. I adapted some of these ideas from the magazines I researched as they contained frequent information such as this too help keep the readers interested, it also helps to advertise the new artists to help them move to mainstream. After collecting information from my questionnaire the regular content in my magazine is going to be behind the scenes on a music video, a monthly interview and also all the latest rock gossip and even a free poster.

 Each issue will contain a different featured article; this issue will contain an interview with an artist. From my questionnaire the feature articles in my magazine will be an interview with the artist Jed, new guitars from Gibson, new albums released in 2014. 

Questionnaire Feedback

Questionnaire Conclusion In question one I asked what genre the person answering the questionnaire was. This allowed me to review all of my questions and see on average what gender preferred what. In my questionnaire 12 females took the questionnaire and only 8 males. This shows that females are more willing to feedback their ideas about music magazines and that the rock genre is more towards females rather than males. Then in question 2 I asked the age of the person doing the questionnaire. Again this was to help me see which age group prefer what; however I aimed to give my questionnaires out to my target audience of 15-19. From the feedback from my magazine I can see that 19 out 20 people where in my preferred target audience of 15-19 years of age yet only 1 person was over the age of 30. This helps me when looking at the results of my questionnaire as I can see exactly what my target audience want in a rock music magazine. Question 3 was all about colour schemes. I asked what colours do you associate with rock genre and gave 3 possible answers; red white and black, pink and yellow or navy and white. By having 3 choices this helped me to eliminate the answers which had the least amount of ticks. From my questionnaire most people associate red, black and white with the rock genre so this shows me that I need to include colours like this to attract my target audience to my magazine. Question 4 asked how much would you pay for the magazine. This is a very important magazine as if I make the magazine too expensive for my target audience my magazine will lose popularity so therefore my magazine will have to between £2 and £3 as this is the most popular choice by my target audience. In question 5 I asked how often do you buy a music magazine and a choice of 3 answers to pick from which were; monthly, every 2 months or seasonally. This question was designed to help me see how often I should publish my magazine. Most of the people who took my questionnaire said that they buy a music magazine every month. Question 6 required a choice of 3 out of 6 possible choices. This question was designed to help me see what my target audience would like for the regular content in my magazine. The most popular choice was tour dates, followed by exclusive interviews and then behind the scenes. By asking this question it allows my magazine to appeal to exactly what my target audience want. In question 7 I asked about what prizes they would prefer for competitions within in magazine. The choices were gig/concert dates which came as the most popular, electrical goods or signed items. By having the prizes that people would want they will be more willing to buy the magazine and enter the competitions. Question 8 asked if they would like free posters in the magazine and 18 out of 20 people said yes. The last question was what words they associate with the rock genre with 13 people saying loud, 1 saying fun, 3 saying lively and another 3 saying other. These words will help me construct my front cover as I can use the vocabulary to attract my audience.

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Questionnaire Conclusion

In question one I asked what genre the person answering the questionnaire was. This allowed me to review all of my questions and see on average what gender preferred what. In my questionnaire 12 females took the questionnaire and only 8 males. This shows that females are more willing to feedback their ideas about music magazines and that the rock genre is more towards females rather than males.

Then in question 2 I asked the age of the person doing the questionnaire. Again this was to help me see which age group prefer what; however I aimed to give my questionnaires out to my target audience of 15-19. From the feedback from my magazine I can see that 19 out 20 people where in my preferred target audience of 15-19 years of age yet only 1 person was over the age of 30. This helps me when looking at the results of my questionnaire as I can see exactly what my target audience want in a rock music magazine.

 Question 3 was all about colour schemes. I asked what colours do you associate with rock genre and gave 3 possible answers; red white and black, pink and yellow or navy and white. By having 3 choices this helped me to eliminate the answers which had the least amount of ticks. From my questionnaire most people associate red, black and white with the rock genre so this shows me that I need to include colours like this to attract my target audience to my magazine.

Question 4 asked how much would you pay for the magazine. This is a very important magazine as if I make the magazine too expensive for my target audience my magazine will lose popularity so therefore my magazine will have to between £2 and £3 as this is the most popular choice by my target audience.

In question 5 I asked how often do you buy a music magazine and a choice of 3 answers to pick from which were; monthly, every 2 months or seasonally. This question was designed to help me see how often I should publish my magazine. Most of the people who took my questionnaire said that they buy a music magazine every month.

Question 6 required a choice of 3 out of 6 possible choices. This question was designed to help me see what my target audience would like for the regular content in my magazine. The most popular choice was tour dates, followed by exclusive interviews and then behind the scenes. By asking this question it allows my magazine to appeal to exactly what my target audience want.

In question 7 I asked about what prizes they would prefer for competitions within in magazine. The choices were gig/concert dates which came as the most popular, electrical goods or signed items. By having the prizes that people would want they will be more willing to buy the magazine and enter the competitions.

Question 8 asked if they would like free posters in the magazine and 18 out of 20 people said yes.

The last question was what words they associate with the rock genre with 13 people saying loud, 1 saying fun, 3 saying lively and another 3 saying other. These words will help me construct my front cover as I can use the vocabulary to attract my audience. 

Questionnaire

This is my questionnaire that i handed out to 20 people. I constructed this questionnaire to help me whilst making my front cover so i can include things that people like. Each question that I ask was designed to help me with each part of my magazine. For example question 5 asked how often do you buy a music magazine, I asked this question to help me see how often I should publish a new issue.

Codes and Conventions of a Double Page Spread

In this lesson I compared the double page spreads that I researched to come up with some similarities. From these similarties I was then able to produce my own set of codes and conventions which I would be able to stick to whilst producing my own double page spread.

Deatiled Analysis of Rock Contents Page

In this lesson I used my codes and conventions to help me analyise the contents paid in a lot of detail.

Detailed Analysis of a Rock Front cover

In this lesson I took my time to analysis this magazine front cover. I used my codes and conventions to help me apply my knowledge of the codes and conventions to analysis the front cover.Detailed Analysis of a Rock Magazine Front Cover

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Codes and Conventions of a Rock Magazine Front Cover

In this lesson I looked at 4 magazines of my genre and compared them to find out what was similar between them all. From looking at these similarities I was able to then identify the codes and conventions of a music magazine. The codes and conventions are:
 Masthead- this is the title of the magazine and is located at the top left hand corner of the magazine and appears in every issue. This is the name of the magazine so if often in bold writing to make the magazine eye-catching towards the target audience.
 Main Image- this image is the focus of the whole issue and takes up the whole magazine front over. The main is of a famous artist of that genre.
Main Cover line- this links in with the main image on the front cover. It tells you what the main article of the issue will be and is often in bold colours (not as bold as the masthead) to make it stand out against the page.
Cover lines- the cover lines are located along the left and right and side of the front cover. The cover lines tell you the feature articles of the issues.
Tag line- the slogan of the magazine.
Colour scheme- fits in with the genre of the magazine and is carried trough out the magazine.
Buzz Words- superlatives that attract the reader e.g exclusive, biggest, best etc
Contact Information- this is the date, price, issue number, bar code, web address and email address.

Inital Plans for My Magazine

Initial Plans for My Magazine

The price of my magazine will be £2.50 as during my research of other magazines the price varied between £2 and £7. I chose this amount as I thought that it would be a reasonable price to charge my customers as I did not want to over or under charge them. This price is a reasonable price as my magazine will only be published once a month but each issue is an average size issue containing around 60 pages so each issue has a lot of content and information for the target audience to read.  I have chosen to make my magazine like this as most of the magazines that I had researched had average sized, detailed issues but the issues where released monthly so the reader can receive frequent up to that information. The regular content of my magazine will include gig/concert dates as from my research all of the rock genre magazines I looked at contained some sort of information on artists tour dates. Also in my regular content will be a page on upcoming artists, and a behind the scenes on a music video. I think that these featured articles will keep my audience interested and wanting to read the next issue. I adapted some of these ideas from the magazines I researched as they contained frequent information such as this too help keep the readers interested, it also helps to advertise the new artists to help them move to mainstream. Each issue will contain a different featured article; this issue will contain an interview with an artist.

Researching The Market Place

In this lesson I researched 4 magazines of my chosen genre of Rock. This research will help me make my magazine. I compared these 4 magazine to produce my own set of codes and conventions for the rock genre. With these codes and conventions i will able to make sure that my magazine is on the same level as other magazines.

Researching The Market Place

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Evaluation

Evaluation

 

Whilst creating my Front cover and Contents page for my school magazine, I had to make sure I was following the codes and conventions of a magazine. This included the basics such as a masthead, main image, a main cover line, cover lines, page numbers etc. I had to follow these codes and conventions to guarantee that my magazine looked as professional as possible. My front cover does follow most of the basic codes and conventions for example it does have a colour scheme, even though it is basic (pink, navy, white) and also has a main image and cover lines. My contents page also follows the basic codes and conventions for example it has page numbers and despite being brief it does contain tasters of the articles within the magazine. However my front cover did lack in some areas of the codes and conventions, for example it did not include puffs, a page curl, or smaller images. My contents page also lacked in the codes and conventions as it did not include any information such as contact details of the magazine or an issue number.

I used Photoshop to help me create my Front Cover. For this I used the polygon tool to help me crop out my students for my front cover and to get rid of the back ground. I cropped in stages which helped me crop my picture my accurately. Then I imported a background image behind my image to make my main image fit with my colour scheme. To then make my image look like a front cover I had to alter the layout to portrait and do some extra cropping to help it look more effective. For my Contents Page I used Quark. I thought that this software was quite hard to use as it was new to me. However once I got to grips with the software I thought that it was good for making my contents page layout. I used text boxes to write out information such as page number, and taster of the articles. I used a square box to help me import my images onto my contents page.                                                                                                                                                          I think that my Front Cover was good because it containing the basic codes and conventions such as a masthead, a main image and a main cover line. I also think my image followed the criteria set as my image was a medium shot of students. My front cover also had relatable articles and images for my theme, such as the main cover line of ‘Best Results Ever’. However my Front cover did lack in some places for example I think that my image could of been better cropped out and could of been more exciting and eye-catching.

Completed Contents Page for School Magazine

This is my contents page for my school magazine. I used my plan and my sketch to help me follow what I wanted for my contents page. For this I used quark.

Contents Page for School Magazine- Screen Shots

This is the screen shots I took whilst making my contents page. It shows the stages it took to develop my final design. Firstly I added in my masthead and title by using a text box which then I altered the colour and font to fit my colour scheme. Then added my main image by importing an image by using just the normal box tool. I had to scale the picture to the box as it was zoomed in at first. I drew text boxes and began to write in the information I needed in my contents page. I made the page numbers different to the text as I wanted them to stand out against the page. At the bottom of my contents page I imported too more smaller pictures too complete my contents page.

Front Cover of School Magazine

Screen Shots of Front Cover of School Magazine

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Firstly I cropped my image out from the background so the students could be seen. I did this by using the polygon tool located on the bar on the left hand side. Then I imported a background image to make the main image fit my colour scheme of pink, navy and white. By clicking the text box tool I then positioned my masthead of my magazine in the top left hand corner of my front cover. I then began to add my cover lines in by using the text box tool again but changing the colour to fit my colour scheme. By importing the white ovall shape I was able to produce a pug for my magazine then by using the text box tool again added the desired text I wanted.

Manipulated Image for Front Cover of School Magazine

For my original image for my front cover i firstly used the polygon tool to crop round my students in the picture. I then imported another picture and dragged it over to my image to make a background for my image. I then altered the size of the canvis to make it portraite instead of landscape.

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Original Photos for School Magazine

These are my original photos that I have took for my magazine front cover and contents page. I will choose only a few pictures to use for my magazine. All the images that I have taken link with my cover lines.

Preliminary Task Contents Page Sketch

This is my sketch for my contents page of my magazine. It includes ideas from my mind map and also carries on some from the front cover. I will use this to help me produce my real magazine contents page.

Preliminary Task Contents Page Mind Map

This is my plan for my contents page. It has what stories are going to feature in the magazine.

Preliminary Task Front Cover Sketch

this is my sketch for my front cover. It has some pf my ideas from my mind map onto the front cover. I will use this to help me produce my real front cover.

Preliminary Task Front Cover Mind Map

This is my mind map of ideas for my front cover of my magazine. I had to think of a masthead, images, and cover lines. I will refer back to this plan whilst producing my magazine to make sure that I am keeping to my plan.

Camera Shot Task

In this lesson I was given a task to take certain shots for a magazine. These are the shots i took and the type of camera shot it is.

Camera Shots Types and Movements

In this lesson I found out all of the different types of camera shots and what these shots where often used for. I also learnt the movements of the camera to receive a certain frame.

Magazine Contents Pages Codes and Conventions

In this lesson i looked at different magazine contents pages. From this i was able to look at the similarties of the magazine contents pages and figured out the codes of conventions.

Magazine Front Cover, Codes and Conventions

In this lesson I looked at many different front covers of magazines. From this I was able to work out the similarities of the magazine and make a set of codes and conventions. These codes and conventions will help me producing my magazine as I will be able to refer back to them throughout my preliminary task and also my main task.

Magazine front covers- codes and conventions

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In this lesson i looked at many different front covers of magazines. From this i was able to work out the similarties of the magazine and make a set of codes and conventions.

Brief

Brief

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Preliminary exercise: usint DTP and an image manipulation program, roduce the front of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp od DTP.

Main Task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.

All images and text used must be orginal, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of four images per candidate.