Homework Over Weekend

To Take pictures for my work.

Lesson Objective 24/04/09

To Import the interview into the double page spread

Pictures Needed for my magazine:

Front Cover:
Single Person for the main front cover image
Three people for the image in the bottom left

Double Page Spread:
One Large Image Of Either Group or solo person, depending on which appears best for the format i have decided for the double page spread.

Contents page
Picture of Myself as the editor.
2-3 smaller pictures for contents images.

Front Cover Sticker Change

I have realised that on my front cover, i am using a sticker which says free cd, due to not having room on the front cover to display the cd that would be included i am changing this to free poster.

Lesson Objective 23.04.09

To change my front covers sticker, and to arrange a picture shoot, and be in a photo shoot

Double Page Spread Text/ Interview Attempt.

They have managed to capture the madness in this years tour, and after several years working towards producing the album, it appears that producing newer experimental tracks, and having the conflict of a full commitment for performing every night some months, will take its toll.
We’re here with the band “Atomic Unknown” and talking to them about their recent success in their tour and album release this February.
Formed in Nottingham over 20 years ago, and huge fans of guitar virtuoso’s of what was 20 years before they had considered the pact between them, Atomic Unknown set out as a metal band, who would aim to capture what metal encompassed at the time; their “hair rock” like music; based on bands such as whitesnake and Bon Jovi was short lived, and when they began to discuss what music that brought them into playing their instruments, they soon realised after a few small pub gigs, that they would have been more accustomed to the fusion Genre’s of blues to acid rock.
So lets take a look at what they think of their own current success, and how they sometimes didn’t reach the goals they wanted to.
Here’s what three of the members had to say when we caught up with them:

When you first met, what where you’re impressions of each other?
David Galloway: I felt uneasy at first, we all kind of met up and I felt almost like a child at their day of school, I was very unsure about what people wanted to do, it took a while before we knew where we were going.
Mike D: It didn’t concern me too much, I’d felt uninspired for many years, and I wasn’t concerned with what we where going to do, but I guess I’m the drummer.
Jamie Ball: I felt positive, by the sound of it, I was the only person who was, without blowing my own trumpet, I’d like to think I turned the attitude around pretty quick.

From this where did you go, how did you decide what type of band you wanted to be?
Mike D: I sat back and just let things go wherever, if I could hit the beat I’d play it, which kind of pushed us into the popular metal scene at the time. It took me probably 10 gigs before I realised my playing didn’t need to be all about speed.
David: I think that was part of the problem, we just wanted to prove ourselves as who was going to be the alpha male, and we all constantly tried to outdo each other; the solo’s on each instrument kept trying to get harder and harder, it improved our playing, but definitely pushed us further apart at the time.

From here, how did you manage to turn things around from this skill boasting to actually being a band, which some of the current tracks could even be described as Chilled out, and that we’d want to feature here in Acid?
Jamie: We definitely reached a boiling point from a stressful type of music, look at Eddie Van Halen, that guy smokes a hundred a day for a reason, it was too much stress, and from here we knew we needed to almost fight against stress, and become a band which had variety and a better atmosphere.
Mike D: There definitely wasn’t a set day where we changed, I think it was a progressive change, literally, from clear cut 3 minute tracks, into a song where we could relax for a few minutes, and then jam for 6 minutes.

Once you where established as what you wanted, how did you re-promote yourself and finally take the band to where you are today, an unrecognisable image of what you would have been when you started out?
David: I don’t think any band excepts to come out looking as they went in, we certainly didn’t, and I think it helps us represent the music we’re now playing, we’ve progressed like a track we could write for the next album, or one after that, I except us to leave this industry probably completely different as to what we are today.

From this, how did this years tour get arranged, was it a mutual agreement between you?
Jamie: We knew it was that time, we’d been discussing it whilst the album was in production, and we all felt like the tracks where ready to become gig worthy, I was insecure at first that some of the tracks wouldn’t be suitable for gigs, if people had come to our previous gigs, but I’m convinced things went down better than ever
Mike D: (laughs) I never really saw a need for insecurities with music, its what we feel and its what we play, if people didn’t like the album, they wouldn’t have wanted to see it live

From here, where do you want to go, and what messages would you want to give to the fans?
Mike D: I want us just to keep where we are, and let the music take us wherever, and I want the listeners to know that without them, this really wouldn’t be possible.
Jamie: I couldn’t agree more, its listeners that have took us to where we can do this, and I feel that we’ve got the capabilities to take this wherever we want, which is really a great feeling, I’m confident about a future tour similar to the one we just did, but with newer material.
David: I’m looking forward to seeing the band on a dvd cover in a HMV somewhere, that’d be pretty awesome. (Here I will put the magazine logo to show this is the end of the article.)

Double Page Spread.

This is my final piece of draft work, from here i will work on the real thing, and using the drafts i have done to act as a template for this.

Treatment

Treatment
I am creating a magazine which will focus on genre's of music focused around a niche rock audience, this would be that of acid/psychadelic rock, therefore resulting in a prodominately older, male audience. 35-55, but hopefully be able to feature bands which could appeal to a younger audience as sub-genre's have emerged such as Neo-psychadelia which seems to be unknowingly popular ammongst younger people, which could also open the audience to people of all ages, but due to its genre specificness, the magazine still has to be classified as Niche.
This magazine will feature a front conver, a contents page and then a double page spread - 4 pages in total.
The magazine will be called "Acid", most obviously for one of the main featured genre's Acid rock, but the name also has multiple connotations.
Acid has a drug connotation to the narcotic substance LSD, a psychodelic drug which is heavily assosiated with the time period (1960's where these genre's emerged and still influence today) , and due to the genre's of music which feature strange irregular sounds and timings, this assosiation would seem appropriate, and the drug connotation give a very underground feel hopefully establishing the magazine as niche.
Acid (in its literal form) also Distorts metals(Metal a genre of music too which can be combined with genre's featured i.e. acid metal), which also reflects how the new effects of the time period (such as distortion, and other distrorting affects) where featured for the first time in this genre of music which still influences today.
I will take photo's for the magazine, which will be identified when took for where appropriate, as i will need to shoot for A Front cover image, a double page spread image, and multiple images that will create the magazines verisimilitude, e.g. pictures in contents page, on front cover to show what will be featured within the magazine.
I did reaserch into how to lay the magazine out, and did this by observation of other magazines, (i used "Kerrang", "NME" and "Q") and through trial and error in my draft which is posted on the blog. A specific layout is not currently decided for the magazine, but i will probably look into how my draft will look with the photo's i plan on taking.
Before carrying out my task of producing the magaize, i will ensure that health and safety can be taken into account when i start my project, before any photo's are taken i will ensure that lighting is not overpowered or facing someone's retina directly to avoid damage to the persons eyes, and make sure that wires on the floor are in a safe position that is away from where people will be walking so they cannot fall over the wires.
If anyone is hurt in the production, i will consult the first aider Vicky Rowntree in M138, and if a fire is to occur the evacuation assembly point is the Front Football Pitch.

The Tasks i need to carry out to finish my final production are:

• Find suitable characters to feature for the photographs, and also use appropriate outfits and propps; camera filters may also be used.
• Take Photographs to use for my front cover, double page spread, and contents page.
• Produce a layout of the magazine, which will be roughly based upon the draft magazine i have produced.
• Evaluate my work when relevent, to see how it can be improved.

Font Reaserch

I viewed several fonts on the website dafont.cpom
I looked at the fonts on the site, but due to difficulty importing the fonts and the website not featuring sufficient fonts which have a retro 60's/70's look i decided to use the font which is already on Quark.
The font i chose was BellBottom.Laser
Excluding this one font i chose to list page numbers on the pictures featured on the contents page, all the other fonts used for the text where in Arial a sans Serif font.
The Font used for the title of the magazine will be explained in the Treatment.