Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Planning my whole magazine


Regular features that will appear in my magazine

I will be researching events coming up in local venues such as pubs, bars and night clubs, even festivals. I will then introduce these upcoming events on a 2 page spread, at the first section just after the contents. The spread will be laid out in a simple/ to the point context, with bold writing! This feature will be called event planning.

My second feature will be called Interview with new sources: This will be a single page interview on a new artist/ band that readers haven’t heard of before, this could also include them promoting their new album or gigs that they have coming up or bringing out in the near future. The interview will also be informal that will be led by me. This is because I want them to feel at ease.

There will then be a Q&A session to follow by which questions will be asked that have been either posted in to Twitter, Facebook or text and will be answered by none other than Dustin Hoffman! This is important as it allows the fans to interact with a celebrity of their choice.

The next feature will be called BUZZIN and this will be a Top Ten list of the best ‘Buzzin ‘songs of the last months which have been voted by a poll on the fan page website.

Regular features:

§  Event planning

§  Interview with new sources

§  Question & Answer

§  Buzzin’

Article plan

Band name – Grade 8

Band members – 4

Age bracket – 22-26 (approx.)

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Aim: To consider what the purpose of a DPS is and the key features within them as an article.

 
 
  • A DPS is a double page spread from within a magazine.
  • It is two facing pages of a magazine where the textual material on the left continues to the right hand side.
Looking in NME magazine.
  • Muse - This DPS is about Muse performing at the SECC on 09/11/09. It discusses an interview with the band, how the performance went and the new songs that they performed
  • The Strokes - This DPS is about how band Member Hamish Macbain celebrates how ' Five boys from New York shaped the way indie looked and sounded in the noughties '


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Analysing a DPS about The Arctic Monkeys                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    




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 The headline suggests that when they first started out as a band they were just doing it for a bit of fun and a hobby. Ten years later when they are now one of the biggest boy bands they say that they didn't anticipate that they would be this famous.
They talk about a variety of subjects such as when they were young teenagers all of them used to buy NME as they used to love reading it, they still have all the old copies. They also speak about how they thought it would be difficult for a replacement of Andy and how it would have been very difficult had they not found Nick.
The first line interests me by NME are referring to how they have followed/ been with Arctic Monkeys since they first began. This either tells me that in the article they will speak about how they first began and where they are to this day. This makes me want to read on because I like reading about successful bands past and how they started out.
In the article I would say that quotes are approximately 40% as the interview is extensive.



Barry Nicolson wrote this article, he has now stopped working for NME and did not win an award. He is a  journalist who has also worked for Dazed & Confused and The Independent. In addition to his ardent support of the VHS format, he is currently on a campaign to make country music cool again.





Thursday, 16 January 2014

Guest speaker from 'Pretty Litter'

  • favourite event is music festivals, ' secret garden party' naked party.
  • lots of pretty girls wondering around naked
  • 5000 copies times 3 every year, the magazine is 3
  • she didn't want to go over a third of the magazine just adverts
  • 5 and 8 pages - 64 pages long ( the overall mag ) 
  • contradeal
  • 1 single page adverts- £550
  • The back cover is £1500
  • 5000 copies and it costs £2000
    • Distribution - SWAT £150 INC VAT
    • distribute to over 100 places around town