Monday 8 November 2010

Article Research.

These are the questions i will ask in my interview.
  1. How long have you been together?
  2. How did you all first meet and decide to get together?
  3. What was your first song?
  4. What is your favourite song?
  5. Who is the funniest in the band?
  6. What instruments do you use?
  7. Do you all get nervous before preforming?
  8. Who inspires you?
  9. What are your goals?
  10. Whats your favourite place youve preformed? 
  11. Where do you hold band practice?

we've been together for just over a year
we all go to air cadets together and have been friends for years.
each year there is a band competition within the cadets and we decided to put something together.
the first song we did was 'mustang sally' we chose it as its a well known song. it took us a while to get it right as none of us really knew how to play instruments, we're sort of learnt as we went but now we rock!
now id say are favourite song is a cover of The Beatles 'get by with a little help from my friends' this is the song weave perfected the most and is the finally to are set list.
We put a lot of time and effort into the band, practising 5-6 times a week, sometimes more!! there's no doubt that at times this can be tedious but its fair to say we always have fun!
The band has altered through out the last year members coming and going, currently we have two singers, guitar, bass, drums, harmonica, keyboard
there's always some nerves before a performance, although its fair to say that some nerves help us to perform better.
its fair to say that everyone in the band has different inspirations, from muse to chuck berry. blues,rock,old,new there's a wide selection to be found on our ipods, we combine these different styles to produce new sounds and ideas.
are main goal over the year has been raising money for charity, over the last year we've raised over a thousand pound for Claire House.
we've played at many places in Merseyside, playing at weddings and charity events. We all agree that are best performance yet was at The Mosslands 'children in need' event were we played to well over 600 people.
we practice at our cadet squadron (belvedere centre) every thursday.


tom jones (drummer) pete mac Donald (bass, guitar) Jimmy ireland (keyboard) william hatton (sings,harmonica)

Wednesday 3 November 2010

Planning Production.

My front cover image will be a girl in there late teens wearing high fashion mostly black to go with the magazine. There will be no more pictures on the front cover just on the contents were i will have a few pictures to go with the headlines and on my double page spread i will have pictures of my band that i have chosen.

Coverlines
  • Best songs of the month
  • Dirty conversation with fearn cotton
  • 100 most shocking moments in music
  • Cheryl cole album of the year already

Contents.

Regular Content.
  • Editors report 
  • Fans forum (letters)
  • Music Memories- peoples link between a memory and a song
  • Hot or not?- shows what reports have said about latest music out in the charts
  • Fearn cottons monthly column on new music
  • Music meltdown moments - pictures off celebs having a bad day or bad hair day at the music awards
  • Bargains- best bargains on new albums/singles out in shops
  • Quiz me- some puzzles, quizzes and competitions.
  • Inside the mind- were each month a celeb gets interviewed  
  • Best songs of the month
Feature Content.

  • Best seats to get in the Arenas 
  • Article about the new places for gigs and concerts.
  • interview with Band
  • Top 10 best albums right now.
  • 10 new music apps
  • The best songs of the month
  • Subscribe
  • organising a gig do's and dont's 
  • 100 most shocking moments in music
Images on contents pages.
On my content page there will be no images apart from a picture of the same model on the front cover but in a different outfit.


These our the rough sketches of my layouts.







Tuesday 2 November 2010

Publication Plan

Title: Swagger


Positioning statement: Get your swag on

Frequency of publication: Monthly

Price: £3.00

Distibution: Newsagents and supermarkets

Rationale: The purpose of this magazine is too inform readers about the updates in the music industry and all the new hot goss thats gonna sell the magazine and keep readers coming back for more.

Style: Informal and chatty but still uses formal words to engage and inform the reader. The magazine is for young music fans of the POP/ROCK genre an therefore will use words to attract them for example, short paragraphs with some slang.

Regular Content.

  • Editors report 
  • Fans forum (letters)
  • Music Memories- peoples link between a memory and a song
  • Hot or not?- shows what reports have said about latest music out in the charts
  • Fearn cottons monthly column on new music
  • Music meltdown moments - pictures off celebs having a bad day or bad hair day at the music awards
  • Bargains- best bargains on new albums/singles out in shops
  • Quiz me- some puzzles, quizzes and competitions.
  • Inside the mind- were each month a celeb gets interviewed  
Feature Content.

  • Best seats to get in the Arenas 
  • Article about the new places for gigs and concerts.
  • interview with Band
  • Top 10 best albums right now.
  • 10 new music apps
  • The best songs of the month
  • Subscribe
  • organising a gig do's and dont's 

House style:
  • Coverline-
  • Headlines-
  • Standfirst-
  • Captions-
  • Features first paragraph-
  • News first paragraph-
  • Body text-
  • Colour scheme-