Finalized draft for music magazine

This is my finalized product for my music magazine.

previous Music magazine final draft

music magazine update 5

my music magazines contents is now completely finished, and now my double spreads is nearly completed as well.

magazine update 4

This is my contents page now and the start of my double page spread. the double page spread will be on my main feature article of my magazine cover, which is battle of the divas. I believe that my contents page will be just about finished in the next week.

Anthum full interview of battle of the bands.

These two girls have taken the charts by storm, each with hit singles being on the top 40 list for a number of weeks, one of these divas are very close to having one of their singles being the next number one. These girls were both handpicked by record companies who saw star quality in these two. These girls state that they are not going to change into big, green, raging fame monsters!

Well hello girls, it’s great to finally have you both together. You both are doing so well with your careers. How has the year been for you both?

Natalie; I have been touring around the world, which has been very hectic. I haven’t had a lot of time to record at the moment, but I am writing new material for the next album. But besides from that I have been to a lot of places for the first time, I got to go to Australia! It was so crazy; I’ve always wanted to go to Australia. A year ago this wouldn’t have happened at all, and then I was picked to become an artist, due to someone seeing that I had potential.

Eileen; the year for me has been really busy; I have been working hard on the next album and the album itself is a personal one. I’ve had a bit of a break last year due to having toured around the world. I feel like I’ve been a little lazy to be honest. However I hope I’ve redeemed myself with the new music. 

Well I think that with two songs in the charts, one nearly at number one, just shows you have already been forgiven by your fans. For you Natalie it looks as if you’re going straight towards the right direction for a very successful career. As if it’s only been a year since starting, this comes to my next question. what are you wanting to get across to the people listening to your music?

Natalie; The message I want to get across to people, is that music is important and is a good way to express yourself. With the music I release, I want the people to listen and have a connection to what the lyrics are. It’s not about the money, which in some cases artists do think that, I believe it’s all about the music and sending a positive or meaningful message out to fans or others.

Eileen; I agree with what Natalie has said, many people think in the music industry, all singers and bands are in this for the money. Which I do agree on that, many do. But we don’t, yes we do get paid for doing this, but it’s our job. We do get overly paid for this type of job but we don’t care about the number of noughts in the payslip, I want it to be about the music and having the fans understand my music.

Well that’s very good to hear, both of you seem to give a lot of care to your fans. What are your fan bases looking like? Are they supportive and what are they like? Have you met any fans?

Eileen; Sounds cliché, but I really couldn’t do it without them. They are just so supportive of my career I’ve still not come to terms with how my love of singing and performing has become my career.

Natalie; I have received support from fans and the fan base is doubling since the start. I can’t believe it as it’s just been nearly two years and

Eileen; Sounds cliché, but I really couldn’t do it without them. They are just so supportive of my career I’ve still not come to terms with how my love of singing and performing has become my career. I have fans that are so star stuck when they see me out in public. This is surreal as I still see myself as a normal day to day teen. It’s just so overwhelming.  When I was touring, so many people came to watch. Each concert was sold out every time. I was told by a member of staff, which said many had camped outside the stadium, the NIGHT before the concert.

Natalie; I have received support from fans and the fan base is doubling since the start. I can’t believe it as it’s just been nearly two years since I broke into the music business and have had this much support. However you always get those few people who will do anything to break you. I received messages from a few people saying; ‘your music style is terrible’, ‘who allowed you to be a singer’ and ‘X Factor reject’. Truth is I chose that style of music, it fits me well. For anyone who doesn’t like me, that’s fine. For those who do thank you.  Haters will hate... But I’m not changing for anyone.

Both of you say you have toured around the world. What’s it like to be able to travel around? Do you ever get home sick and miss the people close to you?

Eileen; yes I defiantly get a little home sick as I miss my family loads when I’m away. Luckily my mum is sometimes able to get to come on the tour for a little while. When she’s there though she’s always making sure I stick to my study schedule and getting an actual bedtime. A good side to being on tour is you get to visited a lot of places and while you’re there you get to learn a lot about each place, so you are learning a little of the culture.

Natalie; yes it’s exciting when on tour; there’s a lot of places I’ve been able to visit. I’ve always wanted to go to Australia. I got to go to Sydney, Melbourne and Gold Coast. Luckily my mum and dad come with me on tour, so I don’t get home sick as much.

How do you think next year will go for you?

Eileen; to be honest who knows what will happen. I hope that I am able to continue on as an artist. I do not want to take it all for granted.

Natalie; to continue making more music and to meet my starlets. I may in fact get another two tours in for my starlets also.

music magazine progress update 3

At the moment this is what I have produced so far in production. This will be my front cover for my final product. This is not yet complete fully, as I will be needing to put some added touches to the banner and minor tweaking to the layout scaling. 

magazine update 2

 This is the second update of my final product. I have continued on with my magazine cover. This is very different from the first as the colour layout has been changed. The contents page is also now in the works, so I will be focusing on both the cover and contents but wanting the cover finished before starting on to the double page spread.

Photoshoot for music plan

Professional Photo Shoot - Planning Sheet

The music magazine that I currently have in mind is a Pop magazine

I think my house style should look Bold but fancy. So it can look great for the teen to older teen, without being dated or too young.

It should create the impression of being

What to Photograph	What techniques to use	How I achieve this
A shot of my main model which will be used as my front cover	The shot for the front cover will be a close up of the model and the lighting for this will be on the model highlighting her as the key feature of the music magazine. Will be a medium close up to show the importance of the character.	Get an appropriate model and style the model that will suit the genre of the magazine, which is a pop with a mix of indie. The lighting should be a must in order to create the right effect for the shots. The shot for the cover will be shot in the studio for maximum effect.
A series of shots, which will be using the same prop, but with different models using the props differently each time, which is a number of pink and purple balloons.	A series of different angled shots will be taken to create effect for the magazine, my aim is to make the shoot look fun and fit the pop/indie genre. For lighting it will be set with dimmed. Also different gestures for each mode,l So I can show the personality of each model by the shots taken.	Using a few models to achieve this. The costume must fit the genre of the magazine, being pop. The location will be set in a room which the colour will be lilac. While the pink and purple balloons will break up the colours of the background, so that the colours will pop.

Music Magazine questionnaire responses

Here are the responses of the people, who had participated in the questionnaire would be collected and shown on the blog. This will help me get a clearer idea of what is to expected of me by my future audience. This questionnaire is also to help me to gain a better understanding of the different audiences that would be reading my music magazine, as well as creating the right content for each of the audiences needs.