Friday, 16 December 2011
First Drafts
Monday, 21 November 2011
Schedule
Task | Subtask |
Diary Posts | At least one every week |
Similar Product Research | Front covers, contents, double paged spreads |
Research | Codes and conventions, Representation and Audience |
Proposal | Type of magazine |
Target audience | |
Content of magazine | |
Style of magazine | |
Institution | |
Distribution | |
Inspiration/Mood board | Mood board |
Inspiration for magazine theme | |
Magazine names | Brainstorm |
Design ideas | |
Final Choice | |
Colour Connotations | How different colours represent different things |
Poll Results | To get an understanding of how my target audience think. |
Target Audience Profile | Social Category |
Typical reader | |
Psychographics | |
Demographics | |
Interviews | |
Photo shoot | Model release |
Time laps – evidence I took the photos | |
Photoshoot | |
Contact Sheet | |
Sell Line Ideas | Ideas for the sell lines used to help sell my magazine |
Contents Page Ideas | Ideas for what articles to contain in my magazine |
Masthead designs | Designs for my magazine masthead |
Analysis and decision | |
Article Draft | A draft of my double page spread article |
Mise en scene | An analysis of the props and clothes used throughout my photo shoot |
Front cover draft | Photoshop drafts |
Contents page draft | Photoshop drafts |
Double page spread draft | Photoshop drafts |
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Article Draft:
With the recent release of the album ‘Affection to Infection’, and with his tune ‘Here To Stay’ going straight to number one, as well as numerous other success, such as being top of the Beatport download charts 24 weeks in a row with ‘Addict’, ‘Tentative’, ‘Ghost’ and more recently ‘Morti Viventi’. Possibly the one of the best success story and most emotional story ever heard, at only 16, he’s already experienced things most people would never experience in their entire lives. From North-West London, the upcoming producer and DJ, RVM (pronounced Rhythm) explains to Sub Conscious how much of a challenge it is to get out there, as well as a gripping story that is worthy of an Oscar.
How did it all start off?
I hate this question (laughs), I don’t know exactly, it was just everything coming together, I was always interested in music, but it showed more towards my mid-teens, trying to make mashups on Windows Movie Maker and hour long sets using iTunes’ ‘start and finish time’ features, (laughs), yea I was quite deprived of the expensive programs. But I think what really got me into it was when a friend handed me FL Studio demo version on a USB in August of 2010, which at the time I thought was amazing, until I found out I couldn’t re-open files I’d saved. In the end I got the full version and attempted to refinish them, but they were the worst standard of music I’ve ever heard, so I just gave up and started a whole load of new projects using newer packs and plug-ins I’d got over the last six months. Then yeah, I suppose with a few friends it just got me motivated to, almost, churn out as many songs as I could and over time, as you’d expect people grew more and more interested and the support from friends was huge. When I had my first play on the radio, I found out around 100 people were listening, floods of Facebook Chat sounds came through my speakers and yeah, I just suppose it all elevated from there.
Your first radio appearance was just 6 months after you properly began making music, how did you feel about it all?
Yeah, I was at my ex’s house as we had gone to get stuff for a party I was DJing at the following weekend, and I got a text from a sort of promoter, well, he downloaded my tune from my SoundCloud and uploaded it onto his YouTube channel, telling me to check the link he had put on my Facebook wall, so I logged onto her computer and listened for about 15 minutes to ‘wickedspinsradio.com’, thinking it was all some sort of joke, but then I heard the radio DJ, who sounded about 4 years old saying ‘Big up Rhythm’, in my head I thought “oh dear, this is embarrassing if anyone’s listening”, it turned out the promoter had used my tune as an instrumental and yea, it weren’t too bad but I thought it could’ve gone a lot better.
Let me guess, someone trying to get into the grime scene?
Haha, yeah, typical!
You mentioned DJing an event the weekend after, was this your first event?
No, I did a friend’s 18th earlier in the year, a month after I got my first mixer, I was originally planning on just pre-making a set and playing it on audacity, good thing I didn’t, turns out the files corrupted and that would’ve been more embarrassing than the radio situation. Fortunately I would like to think I improved and after many months of not DJ’ing anything, I organised a party to raise money for my World Challenge funds which I was doing the following summer. I shared the night with a friend, friend’s dad who got stroppy and wanted to DJ the whole night because he thought I was going to break his equipment, even though I was using my own. As you can probably tell through my tone of voice I was not happy! In the end I dropped ‘Addict’ with Flux Pavilion’s Bass Cannon, and lead on to an early version of ‘Here To Stay’, and the DJ turned out to be an amazing guy. The speakers he provided were worth over £2500, and I’m pretty sure the sub he had made a few people’s eyes bleed. Basically is was f**king mental.
So in the end a successful night?
Yea it wasn’t too bad!
If you could choose one person in the entire music industry to work with, who would it be? and why?
Rebecca Black, easy question! (laughs) Erm, I really can’t put my finger on one person but on the production side of things I’d have to go with Rob Swire, he’s been my idol since about 15 years old, between him and Liam Howlett, they really encouraged me to get into the scene and producing. I’d like to do collaborations with Skrillex and deadmau5, who seem to have pushed the scene over in the US, who have amazing crowds! If I wanted to have vocals on a tune, I’d want to have either Christina Grimmie, been watching her on YouTube for years, one of the most heavenly voices I’ve ever heard, or for male vocal someone with a distinct voice, such as Mali, Liam Bailey or any Jamaican vocalists! Every song needs to be as unique as possible from the last you produced and different vocalists can make all the difference.
Interesting choice, I see you’re a fan of deadmau5 and Skrillex, leading me onto my next question, if a big established artist, who you grew up listening to and got you into the scene, asked you to tour with them for around two months, what would your reaction be?
Go to the pub, every day, except Friday and Saturday, where I’ll throw a party and have some upcoming local acts in the scene to give them a chance to get themselves out there, therefore everyone’s a winner! I’ll probably make sure I have everything I need, and probably become nocturnal and suffer from insomnia until the tour comes around.
Monday, 14 November 2011
A day in the life of...
This feature will show my audience about the life one of the stars have and also how a winner of an ongoing competition to spend a day with a star, spent their day. This feature will be a main USP of my magazine and therefore attracting audience every week and applying to spend a day with their idols.
Sell-out Shows
This feature again will be in every issue of the magazine and describe to the audience about the live events that happened in the past week, as my magazine will be sold on a weekly basis. It will attract the audience to attend more events, as well as possibly setting up a yearly event with big names, to attract our audience and get regular buyers of the magazine coming as well as those who don’t buy the magazine.
EP to Glastonbury
This feature will describe a success story of an artist and how they started out, describing what problems they had and how they overcame them. They will in depth describe their first EP they released, again with what problems they had, and also describe what it’s like to be performing at some of the world’s biggest events now, whether they like it and how life is different.
Turn it up to 12
This feature describes how to make the most out of your listening experience without annoying anyone, including how to create perfect equaliser presets and by having it too loud can in fact ruin your listening experience. It also mimics the Spinal Tap ‘Turn it up to 11’ and it’s again going one get than them. The number 12 also suggests late at night, when it is harder to listen to your music loud freely expect through headphones.
WIN TICKETS
This feature will list 5 tickets that are available to win at the end of each month and 5 winners will be picked at random to get them. This takes a twist on the typical single winner competition and it also adds suspense onto finding out what tickets you’ve won as you won’t know until you receive them in the post. The use of the word ‘WIN’ in capitals shows the audience they are getting them for nothing and have to be lucky.
Lucky Dip
Similar to the ‘WIN TICKETS’ feature, there will be 5 prizes to be won each month, which will allow the audience to win prizes, changing each month, from CDs, signed CDs, speakers, signed speakers, instruments etc. This will attract the reader as again they will not know what they’ve won until it has arrived.
Tour Training
Before artists go on tour, or big festivals, I will interview them on what they do to make sure they can be healthy throughout the tour and what they do before to survive. This will include stuff such as exercise, what to eat, and general items they need to take to ensure they have a good experience.
Contents Ideas
My contents page will be very busy, displaying both images and text to make it stand out and appealing to the audience. The images will be captioned with page numbers next to them as well, allowing them to navigate through the magazine quicker and easier. The main articles in my magazine will clearly stand out above the others to attract the reader’s attention quicker and easier, making it easier to navigate to the most valued article.
On my contents page, all my content will be displayed down the right, separated into categories for easier navigation, as well as on the left a list of artist/band names to allow the audience to navigate to the pages they want easier. Underneath each title of content on the left will be a brief few words summing up the article and attracting the reader to the section, this will not be in bold unlike the main article titles, which will stand out from the rest of the page, making it easier to read, as well as the small print underneath allowing the audience to clearly distinguish between the two. This will make my contents page easy to use but the graphics used will give it the sophistication it needs to attract and surprise the audience. In addition, there will be page numbers located to the left of the titles of the articles, this will be bigger than the title, taking up the space of both the title and the subheading, and it will also be in the same font and size as the title. This allows easy recognition of what page it is on, allowing the audience to find the page in a matter of seconds.
I will also have images of artists featured in the magazine displayed on my contents page, which will look straight out into the audience, allowing them to see their favourite artists and bands, creating a personal relationship with them and feeling as if they knew them. I will not let the images be the main point of my contents as it is used as a guide for the magazine, therefore the audience will want to be able to read the text and find it easier than the images.
Lastly, at the bottom of my contents page I will include an editor’s note and a signature to again get on a personal level with the audience as well as giving a sneak preview of the edition as well as the journey they went on to create it. There will also be offers to subscribe for 3 issues for a cheaper price than if you were to buy it every week from your local shops, as well as receiving extra content with their issue every week as a ‘loyal member’. In addition, there will be a variety of extra online features, which will be gained through following the magazine on Twitter, ‘liking’ their page on Facebook, and subscribing to their website/joining their mailing list.
This feature will show my audience about the life one of the stars have and also how a winner of an ongoing competition to spend a day with a star, spent their day. This feature will be a main USP of my magazine and therefore attracting audience every week and applying to spend a day with their idols.
Sell-out Shows
This feature again will be in every issue of the magazine and describe to the audience about the live events that happened in the past week, as my magazine will be sold on a weekly basis. It will attract the audience to attend more events, as well as possibly setting up a yearly event with big names, to attract our audience and get regular buyers of the magazine coming as well as those who don’t buy the magazine.
EP to Glastonbury
This feature will describe a success story of an artist and how they started out, describing what problems they had and how they overcame them. They will in depth describe their first EP they released, again with what problems they had, and also describe what it’s like to be performing at some of the world’s biggest events now, whether they like it and how life is different.
Turn it up to 12
This feature describes how to make the most out of your listening experience without annoying anyone, including how to create perfect equaliser presets and by having it too loud can in fact ruin your listening experience. It also mimics the Spinal Tap ‘Turn it up to 11’ and it’s again going one get than them. The number 12 also suggests late at night, when it is harder to listen to your music loud freely expect through headphones.
WIN TICKETS
This feature will list 5 tickets that are available to win at the end of each month and 5 winners will be picked at random to get them. This takes a twist on the typical single winner competition and it also adds suspense onto finding out what tickets you’ve won as you won’t know until you receive them in the post. The use of the word ‘WIN’ in capitals shows the audience they are getting them for nothing and have to be lucky.
Lucky Dip
Similar to the ‘WIN TICKETS’ feature, there will be 5 prizes to be won each month, which will allow the audience to win prizes, changing each month, from CDs, signed CDs, speakers, signed speakers, instruments etc. This will attract the reader as again they will not know what they’ve won until it has arrived.
Tour Training
Before artists go on tour, or big festivals, I will interview them on what they do to make sure they can be healthy throughout the tour and what they do before to survive. This will include stuff such as exercise, what to eat, and general items they need to take to ensure they have a good experience.
Contents Ideas
My contents page will be very busy, displaying both images and text to make it stand out and appealing to the audience. The images will be captioned with page numbers next to them as well, allowing them to navigate through the magazine quicker and easier. The main articles in my magazine will clearly stand out above the others to attract the reader’s attention quicker and easier, making it easier to navigate to the most valued article.
On my contents page, all my content will be displayed down the right, separated into categories for easier navigation, as well as on the left a list of artist/band names to allow the audience to navigate to the pages they want easier. Underneath each title of content on the left will be a brief few words summing up the article and attracting the reader to the section, this will not be in bold unlike the main article titles, which will stand out from the rest of the page, making it easier to read, as well as the small print underneath allowing the audience to clearly distinguish between the two. This will make my contents page easy to use but the graphics used will give it the sophistication it needs to attract and surprise the audience. In addition, there will be page numbers located to the left of the titles of the articles, this will be bigger than the title, taking up the space of both the title and the subheading, and it will also be in the same font and size as the title. This allows easy recognition of what page it is on, allowing the audience to find the page in a matter of seconds.
I will also have images of artists featured in the magazine displayed on my contents page, which will look straight out into the audience, allowing them to see their favourite artists and bands, creating a personal relationship with them and feeling as if they knew them. I will not let the images be the main point of my contents as it is used as a guide for the magazine, therefore the audience will want to be able to read the text and find it easier than the images.
Lastly, at the bottom of my contents page I will include an editor’s note and a signature to again get on a personal level with the audience as well as giving a sneak preview of the edition as well as the journey they went on to create it. There will also be offers to subscribe for 3 issues for a cheaper price than if you were to buy it every week from your local shops, as well as receiving extra content with their issue every week as a ‘loyal member’. In addition, there will be a variety of extra online features, which will be gained through following the magazine on Twitter, ‘liking’ their page on Facebook, and subscribing to their website/joining their mailing list.
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