Link to Preliminary Task Blog

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Final Product

Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at my preliminary task I feel that I have learnt a lot, from the progression from it, to my full product. My preliminary task was very simple, a lot of my research and planning was not of as much of a high standard as in my main task, so therefore my final product for my preliminary was not of a high standard. My knowledge of software was also lacking in the preliminary task, so in ways the preliminary was practice of all the different software so that when I came on to my main task my knowledge was much greater.

In the preliminary task, my research of other magazines was almost insignificant compared to my main task. I feel as if this was a huge setback on the final product of my preliminary as my knowledge of the basic conventions of a magazine were lacking. As I did some research, I knew a few things about conventions of magazines, for example, having a house colour and a master head at the top of the page. This minute and undetailed understanding did not enable me to create a professional looking magazine. So for my main task I took more care and time into the research of other magazines so that I could get a clearer and more precise attainment into the conventions of magazines. I also thought it would be more appropriate to analyze magazines that were similar to the one I was going to create, so I researched, in depth, two rock music magazines. This gave me more of a focus on my product and helped to me to see the more specific conventions of a rock magazine.

The research on my target audience for my preliminary task was also very vague, so I didn't have a clear understanding about what readers of my magazine would want and this led to my magazine not being able to attract my target audience. For my main task I undertook a lot more research about my target audience with a reader profile, this helped me gain a distinct knowledge about what I needed my magazine to look like and what content I needed to put in it. My final magazine then ended up looking more typical for the genre I wanted it to be. From this I learnt that doing research on my target audience was a fundamental part of creating a magazine.

All in all, I've learnt that research plays a considerable part in the construction of my magazine. It has made me realize that making a magazine is more complex than I originally thought and each little aspect is important as it all comes together in an overall picture. During my preliminary I didn't look into detail whilst researching into other magazines and my final product didn't come together properly so it looked messy and unfinished. Whereas on my main task I did lots of research and was able to see each little aspect, so my final product came out looking professional and complete.

I also feel that I have learnt a lot in the software I have used in the process from my preliminary task to my main task. During the preliminary task my knowledge of certain softwares and the appropriate times to use them was vague. For example I decided to use Microsoft Word for the front cover of my preliminary task. Word is a very basic piece of software and the amount of tools that you can use on it are limited. I then used Adobe Photoshop for the contents page of my preliminary to test it, and it looked much better than the one on word, as Photoshop has considerably more tools available. After attaining this knowledge, I decided for my main task to create it all on Photoshop and my final product came out looking a lot more professional as the tools on it allowed me to edit photos and I had a choice of more tools to change the way my page looked.

So therefore, my knowledge of software has helped me develop from my preliminary to my main task, as it has helped me create something of a higher quality.

My preliminary task also helped me evaluate where I went wrong and what I could approve on. I feel as of it has helped me develop in my knowledge of how to successfully create a magazine, as I feel it was a chance to experiment and practice different things.
Conclusively, I think I have definitely progressed in my knowledge of how to create a magazine, and this is shown by the quality of my main task compared to my preliminary task. Even though I feel there was more that I could have done to make my final product better I am pleased with the progression I have made.

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the creation of my magazine, I used many different technologies to research, create and enhance my product. Some of these technologies I didn't know or knew very little about so whilst creating my product I learnt a variety of different skills on various different pieces of hardware and software.

Hardware used:
Mac
PC
Camera
Tablet
Smart phone
Printer
Scanner

Software used:
Blogger
E-mail
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Word
Adobe Photoshop
Instagram
Pixlr-o-matic

Mac
I used a Mac computer more than I used any other computer as they had these at school so they were easily accessible to me. Before I started this project I had never used Mac before so when going them I had to learn were all the basic things were, but they are fairly easy to use so it didn't take a long time to find my way around it. In the end I found that a Mac computer is much easy to use than a PC, for example on a Mac when I wanted to screenshot anything I had the choice to either save it onto my desktop whilst screenshotting, whilst on a normal PC when you screenshot something you have paste it onto a document. This made the Mac much easier to use as I had to do a lot of screenshotting for my construction examples during the process of making my magazine, they were all easily accessible on my desktop. The internet was also much easier to use of a Mac, I was able to quickly save pictures by simply dragging them onto my desktop and files were easily accessible so uploading them up onto my blog saved time.

PC
I used a PC during this project as it was the only computer available at home. As I have been using a PC for a long time, I already knew how to use one before I started constructing my product. I didn't really learn anything new using one as the software that I used on it I had already used before and I only used it for a few things.

Camera
I used a Nikon D3100 camera to take the pictures for my final project. This camera has 14.2 megapixels so the picture that I took were all clear and of a high quality, and as my pictures were taken in a dark concert room with flashing lights a decent camera was needed to be able to capture a clear shot. This was the first time I had used this camera in this kind of lighting and I didn't know how it would work out so I experimented with the different setting whilst using it to get the best image. I found it was best to keep the flash off and i turned on the Active D-Lighting setting to lighten the shadows and control washed-out highlights. I also found that images saved in JPEG form worked better after putting then into a computer.
During my preliminary task I used one of the school camera to take my picture, as the megapixels of this was fairly low and the quality of my picture wasn't that great. This made my magazine look fairly shabby which made me want to use a higher quality camera for my main task to make my magazine look more professional.  In the end my magazine did look more look more professional using better quality picture.

Tablet - Nexus 7
I used a tablet for a lot of my project as it was the most available to me at home and as it is small I could take it away with me anywhere. It came in handy a lot as I could quickly access apps such as e-mail, the internet, instagram and blogger. This piece of technology was fairly easy to use and as I had it before I started my task I didn't really have to learn much. But one thing I did learn from it was that at one point blogger on the Mac computers wasn't allowing me to upload pictures, my tablet came in really handy then as I could send the pictures to myself, save them on my tablet and then upload them onto my blogger app. I also sent lots of the images to myself so that I could edit them on instagram and pixlr-o-matic, as these are better photo editors than on the Mac or PC computers. So from this I learnt how to successfully send pictures between different pieces of hardware so that I manipulate them the way I wanted to and upload them to my blog successfully. The only problem with the tablet was that it is unable to hold any Microsoft applications, so there was a limit to what I could do on it.

Smart Phone - Sony Xperia Tipo
I used my smart phone in a similar way to my tablet, as I had a blogger app I was able to upload pictures and edit my posts whenever I wanted to. I didn't use my phone as much during this project as it is smaller it was harder to use then my tablet and the internet connection was not as good so therefore everything worked a bit slower.

Scanner
Before I started the process of constructing my magazine, I had never used a scanner before. I used it so that I could scan my draft designs and put them onto my blog. This was fairly easy to do as it is well instructed and everything you scan is automatically put into a picture format, but I an say now that I can use a scanner with ease.

Blogger
The blog site I used to present the process and the final product of my magazine was blogger. I found that blogger was a fairly easy blog to use. I used my preliminary task as a chance to experiment with the site. When I was new to the site I didn't realize that you could edit posts, but by the time I started on my main task I realized you could and this helped me greatly whilst creating my product. I also downloaded the blogger app onto my tablet. This was helpful to me as I was able to edit my blog whenever I wanted to. There were some issues with this app though, as there is not as many options of things to do compared to blogger on a Mac of PC, for example when you uploaded pictures you weren't able to position them were you wanted to, they were all posted at the end on the post. You also don't have a choice of font on the app.

E-mail
I used e-mail to send myself pictures between my different computers so that I was able to use them for different things. But the main use for e-mail was so that I could communicate with my teacher. He was able to send us tasks and deadlines, so I was able to get my coursework organized.

Microsoft Word
I used Microsoft Word to create my questionnaire, questionnaire analysis, and mock ups. Microsoft word is fairly easy to use and I had used it before so I knew basically how to use it. Word was really good for my questionnaire analysis as there was a tool I found that you could use to create graphs, you usually have to create graph in excel but it was much easier doing it on word, as some of the answers were qualitive data and some were quantitive, I could create graphs or write down the answers making my data much more clearly presented. There was also a tool on word where you could quickly draw boxes onto the page so I used this to create my mock ups.

Adobe Photoshop
Before I had started the process of creating my magazine I had never used Photoshop before, so everything that I did, I leant during he process. During the preliminary task I used Photoshop to create  the contents page for my magazine, so during that I learnt how to do a few basic things so, going onto creating my final project I wasn't completely new to it. Photoshop was probably the trickiest piece of software that I had to use during this process, but once I got to grips with it, it became fairly easy to use. Creating the front cover of my magazine was the hardest page I created as it was the first one that I did and it had the most components on it. Photoshop was really good for this page as I had to edit out a black mark that was on the bottom left of the picture, using the brush tools I could edit out the black mark to the colour of my models top and add detailing on it to make it look more realistic. In general Photoshop was a really handy piece of software to use for my magazine as whilst I was making it, I needed to experiment with the layout of my pages so that I could make it look as good as possible. Photoshop allowed me to easily move different layers around, edit them and delete them if they didn't quite fit. Without being able to do this my magazine wouldn't have looked quite as professional. 

Pixlr-O-Matic
The Pixlr-O-Matic is an app that I downloaded onto my tablet so that I could edit some of my pictures. It was a fairly easy app to use, all you needed to do was upload the image you wanted to use and choose from a large variety of effects to put onto your picture. I used this app to get the scratchy and dirty effect to the pictures on the contents and double page spread. Out of all of the photo editing pieces of software I used, this one was the best for getting the most interesting effects.

Overall all of these technologies have helped me create a professional looking magazine for my final product, and throughout the process I have learnt a variety of different skills on various different technologies. I can confidently say now that I can easily use all of the technologies I have listed.

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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Q4. Who might be the audience for your media product?

Before I started designing my magazine my target audience where both males and females aged 16-18 that listen to rock music, but looking at my final product I think that my magazine would still be aimed at both sexes but could be aimed also at people in their early 20's as this age group like to listen to new rock bands aswell as people in their late teens.

The name of the magazine 'Lithium' is quite and edgy, dynamic and exiting word, this would appeal to the target market of people that listen to rock music as a stereotype of those type of people is edgy and dynamic. The fact that it is quite an exiting name also appeals to a younger audience as they would be looking for something fun when looking for a magazine.

On my magazine front cover I had two advertisements, one for a festival and one for free posters included in the magazine, both these advertisements would appeal to a younger audience, as teenager would like to fill their room with posters of their favourite bands and the age range for people wanting to go to festivals is from around 16-25 so that advertisement would appeal to that audience.

The main colours that I have used on my magazine front cover are blue, pink, green and white. The colour pink is predominantly associated with girls, so the pink writing make the magazine look quite girly, but as there is a very deep blue in the background and blue is usually associated with boys, it balances out the oink to make the magazine look more attractive to both sexes. These colours that I used are also quite bright, synthetic and edgy, which would appeal to people that listen to rock music.

On the front cover of the magazine, the main image is of a girl singing. At first I thought this could maybe make the magazine appeal to more to females, but after looking at other rock magazines, I could see that they often put images of females on them, such as Paramore on the front of Kerrang down below and Kerrang appeal to both a male and female audience. It could maybe even appeal to men even more.

The price of my magazine is £1.99, I did this so that my magazine would be more affordable to my target market of 16-18 year olds as most only earn a little bit of money. But this price range could also appeal to people in their early twenties aswell as many young adults are either at university or starting out in a new job which doesn't pay as much as you have to work your way up, so they don't have much money to spare so this price would be appealing to them.

I think the class that this magazine would appeal to would be the middle classes. In the magazine their is a gig guide, pages about festivals and concert photos so to be able to afford to go to these events you have to have a bit of money. I don't think this magazine would appeal ton the upper classes as much as they are not stereotyped for listening to rock music very much, but it could appeal to lower classes aswell as it is fairly cheap and has free posters inside of it.

Overall, I think that my magazine has target the audience of both males and females age 16-18 as I wanted it to, but I think that the she range has widened into people in their twenties aswell.

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Here is a link to my powerpoint presentation for this question: http://www.slideshare.net/natalieamydawson/q2-18357085

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My final media product was the front cover, contents page and double page spread of a music magazine.
Before making them conducted research on different genres of music, finding out what types of people listen to certain genres and what the stereotypes and interests of those people are.

I also researched some different music magazines to analyze what different components make up the pages. I decided to stick to just analyzing rock music magazines as that was the genre of magazine I decided for my own, and by just analyzing these ones I would get a clear understanding of what components it takes to put together this style of magazine.

I had also analyzed a variety of different magazine for my preliminary task, in which I gained some understanding of the basic conventions of a magazine, for example on the magazine front cover, there is consistently a master head and an image. From this I also gained the knowledge that different styles of magazines have aspects of them that are unique to their style.

Front Cover

The majority of magazines, on the front cover have a main heading, strap line, main image, barcode and coverlines. But within these components, different aspects are changed, such as the fonts of any text, the positions on the page of each part and the colour scheme of the magazine.
For example the magazines that I researched, Kerrang and Rocksound, have some components that are the same and some that are different.

Kerrang Front Cover

Rocksound Front Cover

   

 These magazines being of the same genre are very similar, the strap lines are both at the top of the page with the main heading underneath it, both the barcodes are at the top of the page and the colour schemes are very similar with black, white and red predominantly being the main colours. But then the position of different cover lines are in different places and the amount of extra pictures on the page varies. I think the reason that these magazine stick with certain aspects is to make it clear to readers what style of magazine it is, for example the red, black and white colours would appeal more to listeners of rock music than other colours.

My Front Cover

So from this I came to the conclusion that my magazine should follow certain components of these magazines as the genre of it is the same as both Kerrang and Rocksound it would make it more easily depcicted as a rock magazine. So components such as edgy colours and fonts, pictures of bands on the front and the colour of the main heading were used on my magazine to relate it to these magazines.

Then I used the general conventions of the majority of magazines on my magazine such as the strap line and main heading at the top of the page, the main heading being the largest lettering on the page and in capital letters to make it stand out, an image filling up the entire page with coverline and headings in front of it, and a barcode, date and issue number prominant on the page.

The image that I decided to use on my front cover was an action shot of the band performing at a concert, this is quite common for music magazines to do this, as it shows the band in their element. But most of the time the image on the fromt cover is usually done in front of a green screen or plain background. I decided that doing this could be quite boring and would blend in this other magazines so I decided that an action shot would be better, it makes it look as if there is a bit more going on.

I then decided that I would change some of the components so they were completely different to Kerrang and Rocksound, as there are lots of rock magazines out on the market, I wanted mine to stand out against the others, so I made the colour scheme completely different to the red, white and black colour schemes of most rock magazines and went for a brighter colour scheme of green, pink, white and dark blue, but still made sure the colours were edgy to make sure that it was easily recogniseable as a rock magazine. I also changed the position of the barcode and coverlines, but this wasn't to go against the basic conventions of the rock magazines but to fit in aroung my main image, which is what most magazines do and the positions of things varies with each issue.

I didn't really go against the conventions of what most magazines do, as I think if you stray to far away from what most magazines look like it no longer looks like a magazine and people would be less appealed to buy it. The motive of most magazines is to make their magazine stand out against the rest, make their magazine more eyecatching, and make it look as fun and interesting as possible. So you could say that this is one of the main conventions of a magazine, to make it look different, which is a convention I followed throughout.

Contents Page

For my contents page I looked at both Kerrang and Rocksound contents pages to help me get a clear idea what the conventions of rock magazine were.





Rocksound Contents Page







My Contents Page



Kerrang Contents Page



Whilst analyzing both these magazines I noticed that the Kerrang magazine had a main heading saying 'contents' clearly written in large, bright writing at the top of the page, whilst Rocksound didn't have this at all. I thought that having this main heading made it clear to the readers what was on that page and not having it on there made Rocksound seem less ordered, so I decided to follow the convention of having the main heading saying 'contents' on my page.

Both Kerrang and Rocksound have many images on their contents page, on the Rocksound one the images are ordered and look neatly set but because there is so much of it, its really distracting when reading the text on the page. On the Kerrang contents page the pictures are all scattered around bottom half of the page, I feel as if this makes the page look messy aswell, so I decided not to use lots of picture on my front cover for those reasons and fill up the space where pictures could have gone with more writing which would be more informative to the reader.

On the Kerrang contents page I like the large image filling up the top half of the page, I feel this splits up the page and make the writing look less daunting to read.

On both the magazine contents pages they have both split up their text into columns, this is very common for magazines and newspaper to do this for large amounts of writing as it makes it easier to read, I used this convention on my contents page as I felt it would make my page look more organized and clear.

Both magazines also have a message from the editor on their contents page, aswell as a picture and signature from the editor, i like this as it makes the reader feel a bit more personal and intouch with the magazine, dragging them into the magazine even more, so I carried this through onto my contents page to make the readers of my magazine feel more welcomed by it.

Double Page Spread

I looked at a double page spread from both Kerrang and Rocksound to help me create my double page spread.



Whilst I was looking at both these magazines, I liked the way that Kerrang has put their image on one half of the page and their text on the other. This is a convention I used on my double page spread as it helped split the page up and made it look a lot clearer. But I moved the picture from the right side of the page to the left as I thought that having a picture as the first thing you look at is more appealing. I didn't particually like the way that rocksound had an image filling up the entire spread as I felt that it made the page look to clustered, and the writing less appealling to read.
On both magazines they have used a variation on different fonts, and font sizes. I like this in a magazine as I think that it makes the pages look less boring and makes things stand out a bit more, this is a convention that I stuck to whilst making my double page spread.
On both these magazines they have used columns to set out the main text on the page, many magazines do this as it makes the writing easier to read and helps set the page out making it look neater and more appealing to read. I thought it would be sensible to stick to this convention as there is a purpose behind why so many magazines do it and I like the effect it gives.
Both magazines have also stuck to very plain coloured writing for their main text, most other magazines do this aswell. The purpose of this is to make the text easier to read, if all off the text was in a bright colour it wouldn't be very nice to read. So I stuck to this convention as I want my readers to be able to read the magazine comfortably.
On the Kerrang magazine all the colours that they have used is very dull, even the picture is in dull colours. I don't particually like this as I feel that it makes the magazine look quite boring, so I didn't follow this in my magazine.

Evaluation of Main Task

I will be answering 7 questions to get a clear, concise and overall evaluation of my final product. These question are:

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Q4. Who might be the audience for your media product?

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Q6. What have you learn't about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Q7. Looking back and your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learn't in the progression from it to the full product?

Construction Examples from Double Page Spread

To start off I added the image onto the double page spread, i put it on the left side as people read from left to right the first thing that the reader would see would be the picture and as the band are easily recognisable it draws attention to the page. I then made the rest of the background black as it fits in with the picture as well as the style of my magazine. Also when reading a long piece of writing you down want to many bright and bold colours because it can be quite tiring for your eyes so its best to stick to very plain colours.
I then added the master head onto the top right of the page, i used a pull quote for this as it gives the reader a slight insight into what is going to be in the interview and using the most interesting quote makes it look more interesting. I made the words 'rock out' larger and a more contrasting colour than the other words because it make this text stand out more and this piece of text it goes  more with the theme of the magazine and it is what reader would want to hear.
I then put in two lines where the sub-heading is to go as this helps split up the page and stops it from merging into one, making it easier to read.
After that I put the sub-heading in-between the two lines, I wrote this in white as i felt this would help split up the page and make it even more easy to read.
I then added to interview text onto the page i put this into 3 columns as it makes it easier to read, I put the questions asked in a a bolder font and in the colour white, and I put the answers in a slightly less bold font in a grey colour. I did this as I felt it would make the set out of the interview clearer.

I put in a pull quote in-between some of the text to help split the text up a bit and keep it interesting. I also added the bands album to the bottom right of the page as an advertisement to their CD, i put a rough border around it to slightly separate it from the interview.

Construction Examples from Contents Page

On the top half of my page I decided to put a picture on the top half of my page as the band are the main storyline of the magazine I think it would be appropriate to have a large picture of them as it reminds the reader of the interview with them and it makes a point that the band are really interesting. i decided t make the background of my contents page black aswell, as it fits in well with the colours of the picture and fit the style of my magazine.
I then decided to put banners across the page to put the words in as i felt this splits up the page and stops it all from merging into one, and i put in lines in between where the writing is going to go. I put the heading lithium in white as it is on the front cover and used one of the house colours pink for the other headings. I then put the page number of the bands interview on top of the picture so as it help the reader find the page easily. To be able to put the number in the place that it is i had to edit the photo by colouring in some of the persons body and guitar black, as the mix of having white writing against a background of green and black made it hard to read. If you look at the image below you can see how it has changed.

I then began to write the rest of the content onto the page, during this i used the same house colours that i did on the front cover. I tried out different colours in different places to see what looked best. I then put the advertisement in a different colour as i wanted this to stand out and i decided to do this in yellow as it matches the yellow i the picture. I decided to put the message from the editor on the left hand side as it would be the first thing that the reader would read. I then made my own signature to put at the end of it to make it look more professional.

I then added a few images onto the page after to make it look fuller and more interesting, and i also decided to put blue boxes around the subheading on the page as i thought that they didn't seem to stand out enough and i feel like they make the page easier to read.

Construction Examples for Front Cover

On the front cover of my magazine I started off with the picture of the main band filling up the entire page of the magazine. I wanted to put a strap line on my magazine so i put that right at the top using the same colour as in the picture and also as my magazine was going to be called lithium i wanted green to be incorporated into it. I them put the title onto the magazine in white as it contrasts against the picture and lithium is a silver/white metal I think it would be appropriate. 

I then added the text for the advertisement onto the strapline, put in a box including the cover date, number and price, and added a barcode. Followed by adding the main headings onto the page, i put them in place on the page where the colour in the background was relatively the same colour so the text stood out. When I added the heading on the bottom left corner the colour of pink that I used for the other headings clashed with the green in the background so I changed it to black. 

The picture above was the original picture and as you can see there is a large black splodge in the bottom right corner of it, so I edited it out using the colouring tool to colour it in using the same colour as her top and adding detail to it.

After that i added the text underneath the heading to give the reader a bit of an overview of what was in the magazine, i put this in white as it matched with the house colours of the magazine and stood out against the background I then added a further heading onto the bottom as i thought it look very empty, i put in lots of plus signs here as they are a very easy recognisable symbol and lots of other magazine such as kerrang and NME use plus signs to draw attention to the reader and it help save space.

Evaluation of Questionnaire

Mock Ups

These are a few mock ups to help decide on the layout of my magazine.

This is the mock up I chose for my final front cover.

Draft Designs

These are a few draft designs I drew up to get an idea of how my magazine is going to be laid out.

Photo editing for album cover on double page spread

Firstly I cropped the picture so it was the size of an album cover, i made sure there was a clear space where I could put text.


I then put the picture through instagram so that the adges of the picture where faded and I slightly lightened the colour of the photo.


I then put the photo through photo effects app to get the battered, dirty look on the picture.

Writing Copy

Their Album “Youthful Days’ became number 2 on the UK Album Chart just 3 weeks after release, their headlining tour sold out in a matter of weeks and they have been partying with top
rockstars only 2 years after the band first formed. Pretty impressive don’t you think? So Lithium interviewed front woman Freya Hunter and Bassist Cole Beaulieu to get the inside gossip and story of their amazing success.

You were UK No.2 on the album chart, you have a sell out headling tour. How do you feel?

Freya: To be quite honest with you I don’t even know, this past year has been a complete worldwind. Sometimes we’ll just sit and think about it and we’ll all just go into a fit of giggles from
exitement. It hasn’t really hit home yet! All we ever wanna do is just rock out, so it doesn’t really faze us too much.

So, what is the meaning behind you new album ‘youthful days’?

Cole: Well we kind of had the idea that when you are young all things are sweet and innocent, and even when things are horrible, kids never really see it in a bad light. Then as you grow up you start to understand things a bit more, and I suppose life isn’t so great.


Being on tour for months on end must get pretty tiring, do any of you end up not getting along?

Freya: Well like any group of friends, there are always little tiffs. All of us are pretty laid back though, so no-one really starts anything.

Cole: And if someone is in a bad mood (usually drummer Matt) we will just leave them alone.

Being the rockstarts that you are, what do you request in your dressing rooms?

Freya: Lots of sweets, we love sweets. So like Nerds, Reeses Pieces, Starburst and Vegetarian Haribos. And i like Ginger Ale, it helps my voice. And a hangover.

Cole: Just veggie food!

How many hotel rooms have you destroyed?

Cole: We accidently broke the kettle in one and Ali broke our tour bus TV, thats pretty rock’n’roll.


What bands are you guys listening to at the moment?

Cole: Well all of us really like Bring Me The Horizon. We’ve watched them live like 20 times. Architects are really good aswell. And we like our classics such as Nirvana and Motorhead.

So, the gossip we've been waiting for. Partying with the Stones, what was it like?

Freya: Awesome, i’ll tell you now they really know how to party. Its crazy because we used to admire them as youngsters and even just meeting them was awesome.

Cole: And now we are just casual mates with them all, even though they are a lot older, there still so cool. Rockstars never grow up really.

Research

In the Avril Lavigne video, the predominant colours used are green, pink, black and white. Avril Lavigne is in a rock band very similar to the band that i am going to use for my magazine, so i would like to use the same sorts of colours in my magazine as the colours used here as i think the colours have been used very well and it suits her style of music.  

Editor

Photo editing for double page spread

 

I tested out so different effects on the photo for the double page spread on a photo effects app, I wanted to go along with a worn and dirty look to go along with the theme of the magazine.

Photo editing for contents

The Band

In my magazine the band that I am going to use is a band called 'Marshall Park' a 5 piece rock band from Reading. The band consists of lead vocalist Freya, bassist Cole, guitarists Ali and Mark, and drummer Matt.
For the double page spread of my magazine I will be interviewing the band about recent tours, their new album and just general information about the band.

My own pictures of the band that may be used: