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Alice outfit...

The clock necklace is significant in the Alice in Wonderland story line so i thought it would be good to include it on my model.

The blue bow is a significant Alice reference as she is always show with a ribbon tied in her hair.

I'm using a denim shirt dress as it's suposed to be a modern interperation of Alice.

I'm using the white cardign to break up the blue.

The heels fit the style and add height to my model.


The white tights are topping off the stereotypical Alice look.

Layout...

This is the basic layout for my magazine.

Magazine Title!

Choosing the title for my magzine, I came down to three options:
Headliner, Electricity and MicTake.
I decided to use Headliner as it was more relevant to the indie-electro mix genre.
I experimented with some fonts to get my headline right:

HEADLINER (Agency FB)
HEADLINER (Franklin Gothic Medium Cond)
HEADLINER (Adobe Song Std L)
HEADLINER (Bradley Hand ITC)
HEADLINER (MS Reference Sans Serif)
HEADLINER (Broadway)
HEADLINER (Adobe Caslon Pro Bold)
At first I prefered Agency FB font but when I tried it on the cover, it didn't look right so I decided to use MS Reference Sans Serif as it's really clear and I can add outlines round the text.

ALICE SHOOT

so I got all dressed up and went to the 'wooded area' only to find the sun had gone in! We shot it anyway and the pictures were fine so heres a few (pre-edits) from today!

Alice Wonders for Headliner

So this is my interview. I'm going to take out quotes for the cover and one of the spead pages. I'm also going to use an introdution paragraph at the start of the interview.

Headliner has managed to bag an exclusive interview with Hollywoods brightest starlet. With her fresh and quirky ideas mixed in with her upbeat and funky music she is guaranteed to take the music industry by storm. This is, straight from Wonderland, Alice Wonders (Alice Darby)
1.Why did you decide to do music?
Music's a really important part of peoples lives. I love it. I love the whole atmosphere and hype around music. I also like pleasing people, and seeing the excitement around the public when a new album, single, or tour date is released really inspired me and I wanted to be the person at the epicentre of this excitement.
2. How would you rate the overall success of your debut album?
I don’t know, I mean I like it. ‘Rewind’ knocked Beyonce of the top of the charts last week but she was really nice about it when I met her at the MTV music awards! She told me she had my album on my iPod so I kind of rate that as success! I suppose I just need to get used to the attention being fixated on me for a change.
3.Where do you get your inspiration from?
I do write all of my own songs, but it's just little things that inspire me. When I was growing up my dad would put on all of his 60s and 70s hits. I'd know all the words by the age of 6 and I loved them. The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Lighthouse Family. I know them all. But a more modern inspiration is Calvin Harris. Electro music is guaranteed to make you feel good and I love how he manages to get me on my feet even at the worst times.
4. You have a wardrobe big enough to sit in?
Yeah, i have way too many clothes, loads of it is wacky stage stuff too. I secretly love dressing up and walking round the house in it! I had a stylist for a brief period of time but half the fun in getting ready in rummaging around in my wardrobe and throwing stuff together!
5. Any goals for the future?
Too just keep making music people will love!
6. Embarrassing backstage stories?
Backstage? Plenty. I locked myself out of my dressing room at the last awards show I performed at. My plan was to ask the first person I met how on earth I got back in but I bumped into George Clooney! I couldn’t believe it, the best thing I could come up with was to ask him were the toilets where. I was too embarrassed to tell him the truth. Plus he smiled at me, what’s a girl to do? I’ve had a few stage hiccups to, from slips and trips to torn dresses and broken heels!
7. Ever get star struck?
Definitely, though I supposed growing up in Hollywood should have prepared me for all this. If anything I’m worse than most people! I even got nervous when I got interviewed by Steve (Jones from T4). He’s got a killer six pack and a gorgeous accent!
8.Your a fan of the Welsh?
Oh of course! The Welsh accent is really sexy, though sometimes I get a little confused. You Brits have a really cool one too, no one has made me a cup of tea yet though!
9. Tell us about collaborating with Lady Gaga!
That was the craziest and best thing I’ve ever done. I don’t know how she does it. We sang suspended from the ceiling wearing circus clothes! She looked amazing. I probably looked like I’d fallen head first into a dressing up box! My music is indie gone electro so it matches hers. I'd love to work on more stuff with her.
10. Favourite cover? Or do you just play your own stuff?
Most of it is original stuff but I love taking songs and putting a complete different twist on them. When I hear songs and thing I’d do it differently... then I do! I get home, in my studio and mix things up!
11. Have you got any exciting venues lined up for the near future?
Absolutely, this year’s going to be amazing! I’ve got my ‘Great British Wonderland Tour’ and I’m playing all the big festivals, V Fest, Reading and Leeds, Glasto. I can’t wait. Any British gig is an amazing gig to play at.
12. Did having famous parents help you get your record deal?
Having famous parents and living in Hollywood obviously offers you connections lots of people don’t have but I got the deal for my music and my talent, not just because my dad directs movies.
13. We love your style, who are your fashion icons?
We’ll I really love to mix things up. I love vintage clothing, Audrey Hepburn style, she was amazingly beautiful. But I also love modern styles. I’m totally hooked by Alexa Chung. Taylor Momsen and Pixie Lott too, they always look great. My style is just to be confident in wearing whatever the hell I feel like!
14. Where did the band name come from (though I think we can already guess)?
That’s true. My secret love of Alice in Wonderland in now known worldwide! It was my favourite movie growing up, and to be honest, I’ve not finished growing up yet! I love the whole feeling of awe and wonder she has in the movie and that’s what I wanted to do with my music. Oh and my names Alice! So I’ve always felt a connection to her. I even bought a white rabbit and I was always late for everything! Unintentionally of course...
15. Finally, what three things could you not live without?
My guitar defiantly! These will be such generic answers but my Blackberry to keep connected and chocolate! Without that I would just die!

Alice Wonders...

so I had problems trying to get out on location with the whole 'band' turning up. When the class voted 'Alice Wonders' as the most popular band name, I had an idea to take it in a slightly diferent direction. We're shooting my cover today in the studi0 and out near the wooded area near college as it's a sunny day! I'm going to use just one model as it will be easier if I need to rescedule the shoot just in case i need to make changes to any of my photos.

Possible Band Names...

So far I have...
Street Lights,
Hot Air,
Alice Wonders,
Friction,
Flic Switch,
Urban Mess.
So I'll put it too the class vote! x

Examplary Interview – With the Arctic Monkeys featured on the leeds music scene website.

"I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor", Arctic Monkeys' second single and first full-scale release, has shifted a rattling avalanche of around 33,000 copies thus far whilst simultaneously thrusting a very sharp, very painful spear labelled "Reality Check" up the rear end of the boring, apathetic public.

I write this two days after the UK gained a new chart-topping single packaged humbly in a polo shirt and a slightly-worse-for-wear Adidas jacket with a look of vague shock and a small smile of acknowledgement slapped haphazardly on its face. 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor', Arctic Monkeys' second single and first full-scale release, has shifted a rattling avalanche of around 33,000 copies thus far whilst simultaneously thrusting a very sharp, very painful spear labelled 'Reality Check' up the rear end of the boring, apathetic public. People are throwing stupid moves in clubs/pubs/front rooms all over the country. People are doing that unspoken-of thing in the middle of the flooded, leaf-choked streets: laughing. People have discovered, at long last, that they have ears.

Laying aside all possible lame jokes that the phrase "After twenty minutes on the Monkeys' tourbus..." could instigate, I will say, firstly, how very humble, loveable and somewhat tired these young men seem. Slightly overwhelmed, rather nonplussed and a tad bored, understandably, by the media parade surrounding them (they've had to divide themselves into two today to keep up with the schedule: guitarist Jamie Cook and bassist Andy Nicholson battling an interrogation somewhere in the midst of the venue's soundchecks; myself, drummer Matt Helders and frontman Alex Turner mumbling around on a very, very orange indeed coach), they look in desperate need of entertainment and a good brisk walk to slap some fresh air into their pale chops. Fiddling with any available roll of sellotape, twiddling mobile phones and nudging a stray DVD ('24 Hour Party People', if you're interested) around the table, Alex is your tiny-bit-awkward boy-down-the-road who would probably rather be playing about on the food-splattered acoustic lying upturned on the raggedy seats than shiftily avoiding excessive eye-contact with yet another stranger in possession of a recording machine, especially one with a fatigued Dictaphone which conveniently snuffs it halfway through the interview. A rapid change of batteries ensues, followed by a tedious back-step through a few questions, although none of us can even remember what we said ("It was probably rubbish, anyway" admits Turner). It's all very ramshackle; but their world is, after all, a crazy one.

So there we have it. Four impossibly-normal, nervously-excited, ridiculously-knackered boys, perched, teetering, on the brink of a stupidly enormous amount of fame. Watch them fly...

The Interview

Just a few ideas written down for questions that would feature in my interview with the band:
1. How did you lot meet?
2. How would you rate your overall success of your debut album?
3. Where did you get your inspiration from?
4. What's it like being the only girl in the band?
5. Goals for the future?
6. Any embarrassing backstage stories?
7. Ever get starstruck?
8. Where did the band name come from?
9. What venues do you have lined up for the near future?
10. Favourite cover to play? Or do you just write all your own stuff?

Recky Photos

For my front cover i have decided to have 3 'band members' in seedy-looking settings. To acheive this i went to Wigan Mesnes Park to get some recky photos so that i could find some places that I think would look good on a magazine cover, in particular, one for an indie magazine.

Graffiti

I decided to choose a wall with a lot of graffiti because i think it creates the sort of dodgy look that i want it to have. Also, with having graffiti on the wall in the background, it would be easy in the long run because it means there is less to do on photoshop when it comes to editing my magazine.

Woods

I have chosen the woods as another area to have my photoshoot. However, I don't think this would be as good as the graffiti because I think the lighting would be a major factor for the photos as it could easily go wrong.

Bandstand
I think the bandstand in Mesnes Park would be a perfect place to have a photoshoot. i can arrange each band member to lean up against a pillar and pose with instruments and microphones. However, I am not planning on having the bandstand featuring on the main cover, but instead it can be on a smaller picture on the double page spread.

Steps

I think the steps on Mesnes park would be perfect to take pictures for pictures on the inside of my magazine. I will arrange them to sit in a certain pattern and include it as the main picture on the inside cover.

Research- Final Example

This example of NME Magazine has used the usual red and black layout to make it recognisable to the reader. The main image is of band, The Last Shadow Puppets. Because they were a new band at the time this magazine issue was released, the name of the band is in the biggest font just under the pictures. However, band member Alex Turner would already be recognisable to the audience from his other band, Arctic Monkeys. His name and the other band member's name, Miles Kane, is in white letters but still quite big font. This makes the names stand out to grab attention and directily underneath the words 'First major interview as' in italics.

There is then a quote from Turner saying "I was worried the Monkeys would think I'd had an affair." Having a quote is a usual feature on a magazine front cover to give a taster of what's inside.

Going along the side of the magazine are subheadings and stories that are featured in the magazine. The actual headline is in red with a brief description of it underneath.

This example has given me plenty of ideas to replicate for my own magazine cover. It has helped me to establish what sort of fonts, layouts and pictures that would be good for my own magazine cover.

Research- Magazine Research

Ska music is not particularly well known or recognised with the age of audience that I am aiming my magazine at. However, the recognisable checker board pattern is how Ska music is noticed. This is featured on the image of 'Ska 80' shown above. The sort of bands that are classed as 'Ska' include Madness and The Specials. Bands that would use brass instruments and have upbeat and feelgood music. I feel that it would be a good idea to use as my media coursework as it is a unique genre and there are very few magazine out there for Ska. This eradicates any concerns of my coursework lacking in originality. However, i feel that finding models for this type of band would be difficult which would bring down my mark greatly and therefore feel that a more general genre of music for a magazine cover would be more appropriate.

NME is the main magazine for Indie music. The main colour scheme is always red and black and often brighter colours such as yellow, orange and blue are used to brighten up the front cover and make it more appealing. The pictures used always feature the band or artist in the centre shot and usually has the main band member- or the most attractive band member- slightly forward or in more focus than the rest. This is because the front man is more recognisable to fans and would sell more copies. This is the most popular genre to go for as it is, ironically, mainstream music for teenagers. However, people get confused over what is actually classed as Indie music. I am confident in the fact that I am fully aware of what is classed as Indie music and owuld have no problems finding models that would be perfect to feature on the cover. A bad point of doing this sort of magazine is that it is not an original genre and may be difficult in avoiding my own work looking similar to anyone elses.

Pop magazines such as Smash Hits and Top of the Pops are aimed at a tweenage audience of people aged 11-14. It is regularly aimed at girls and they are weekly magazines that keep up with music that is in the pop charts that week. They use bright colours to attract the attention of its desired audience. They usually feature the band or artist that was number 1 in the charts that previous week and have a close up, if it's a solo artist, or if it's a band, usually the main member or the mot attractive is in the main focus aas an attention grabber.

Research- Magazine Examples