DRAFT IMPROVEMENTS DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

Final magazine article

The writers of OOAK give you some exclusive news that no other magazines have yet to talk about.

The band Indifference have been asked to perform on the main stage at V - Festival. You could say that this music festival is for people that don't actually like music but still want to say that they've been to a music festival.

LET’S MEET THE BAND?

Indifference is an indie based band which consists of 5 members, Matt Crane, Carly Nelson, Ellie Rea, Connor Taylor and Callum Barker. They originated from a small village called Ebford, Exeter, they all attended the same high school where they stared creating songs and playing gigs in the local pubs or fates around nearby villages. Now the classroom music lesson have paid off as it’s soon to become a career for this 5.

The band say "there motivated and ready for a challenge". From the looks of things they are hoping to kick the festival off with a bang playing songs that feature on their brand new album ' The Wild Card'. A dream for them is staring to become reality by the looks of things.

BRAND NEW MUSIC FROM THE BAND INDIFFERENCE!

Their new album ‘The Wild Card’ contains a track list of 16 songs all in which are different, bringing something new to the music industry, something that no one has ever heard before. Behind each of the songs they all have a meaning, whether it’s a personal meaning or a meaning in everyday life. The album is new and powerful and is hitting the shelf a week before the festival.

“It’s from the heart. The songs and the subjects come across more human” says Matt Crane, speaking to us over the phone about the band indifference to do with their first ever album called ‘The Wild Card’. It’s an unexpectedly candid statement form the otherworldly front man.

Then name of their first new album ‘The Wild Card’ is named after them taking their first steps in their career and taking a chance. This is scattered with disparate influences, some harder to pin down than others. Carly Nelson tells us that "when I was writing the song the feelings I wanted to get across in the track called 'tell me now' would just override any other consideration"

The bands upcoming ethic has taken them in many ways and interesting directions, including a photo-shoot on the red carpet for filming for their new music video for the song ‘it’s now or never’ this is one of the songs featuring on their new album ‘The Wild Card’

From looking at advertisement the band they look as if they are to go far in the music industry selling over 2000 copies of their first ever song ‘one day’  this was a shock to all 5 of them as they didn’t believe in themselves till now. This was the start of something big.

IS THERE CHEMISTRY IN THE BAND?

COULD THIS BE THE NEXT NUMBER ONE?

Many of you readers have been writing in to us asking "will be the next number one" well the magazine writers of OOAK say we'll have to wait and see what happens in a few weeks when their first ever album is released in store and available on I tunes. I suggest if your attending the V festival this year, make sure you've bought the album and that you’re at the main stage and give them a listen. They have a whole career ahead of them. The festival is an experience, probably one that everyone should have in a lifetime.

You will gain a load of memories from this festival. If you'd like to see Indifference performing their new album live ' The Wild Card' then you can go to www.vfestival.com and get your tickets now!

Second Photoshoot Review

My second photo shoot i did with Carly and Rob went so much better than my first one, i feel this is because they were both relaxed and felt comfortable around each other so i managed to get the look i wanted. i got some good photos that look much better than my first attempt, i will edit a few of them and show what they look like once i have edited them, i will do another post to show my progressions. 

DRAFT IMPROVEMENTS FRONT PAGE

i have looked at the feedback given from my teacher, and looked at the comments I could use to improve my work, this is what I have looked at improving so far, I have changed the image on the front page and the text so its starting to look like a real magazine. also I have made the bar-code bigger and changed the layout of my magazine name. I will change it again as the title looks like there is too much writing so I will reduce it down so its just plain. Also I will change the writing in the bottom left hand corner as on real magazines we see in the shops it shows band names so i will adjust it so it becomes more sell-able for shops. Finally the issue date and price will be central to the bar code and smaller fonts.

Carly and Rob

For my photo shoot involving Rob and Carly went better than my first one, the outfits I got them to wear were to make them look indie and fit in with my theme. Rob was wearing a black/navy bomber jacket this make the boy look more prominent over the girl, this contrasts with Carly as she is wearing a baby blue  texture crop top, this shows a girly stereotype and shows she's feminism, makes her stand out and also contrasts with her hair colour.

I was inspired by dazed and confused magazine in what to dress Carly in, for example on the left I am showing a model of the magazine and on the right an image of Carly in my photo shoot.

And i was inspired for rob to be wearing a casual smart dress sense from looking at magazines such as wonderland magazine, again the magazine on the left and rob the model on the right hand side, both are smartly dressed and look like they have the same in common to do with the theme of indie.



Picture of contents Esquire

This is the magazine that inspired me for my contents page, i haven't copied it completely as i don't think certain parts like the big image in the middle of the page suit my magazine genre, although i put a larger image at the top of the page instead, however the image i chose fits in with the genre and theme of my magazine. i liked the layout of this particular magazine as its kept simple and stands out because its plain and bold, again suiting the genre of my theme 'indie'.

Weekly plan

This weeks plan is to continue trying to improve my front page, contents page and double page and hand in another draft to see if the improvements i have made differ on my work produced. i will also do another photo shoot and evaluate how well they went or what even better if's i could think of. then over the half term holiday i will continue to evaluate the work i am producing for my planning and research.

First Photoshoot Review

On my first photo shoot I feel it went well but it could have gone better, both Carly and Matt have both said to me that they weren't photo genic and in some of my photos you can see this. I thought that it was a little bit awkward to work with both the boy and the girl together as they weren't that close as friends and looking back at my photos I see that Matt doesn't really fully suit my theme of the magazine. I did get some good photos but I feel that I needed to try again and possibly with a different boy model so the use of time I had to take photos was more relaxed and less awkward.

Inspiration for my front page

For my front page I looked at quite a few different examples that linked with my theme of 'indie' I looked in magazines such as wonderland clash, dazed and confused, faded, the fly and more.

Photoshoot

I have done another photo shoot with Rob and Carly as the first photo shoot I did  with Matt and Carly didn't look quite right as both of them together didn't look quite right. So I tried another boy Rob and they seem to match and look quite good together on camera. I will look through the photos I took and choose some of my favourites, edit them and see which I will use on my final.

Picture Editing (ROB)

On the contents page I chose a picture of rob, however in the top right hand corner you could see a crease in the white background. I went to crop the photo and pulled it to the size I needed but it stretched and didn't look right, I then decided to try and use the spot healing tool to see if that would get rid of the crease, and it worked so I put it back to the original size and changed the contrast to get rid of any shadows.

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