Magazine Mock Up Cover Two

Magazine Article, Brief

Here is my first brief attempt at my magazine article, I have done half of it because I am hoping for some feeback to check I am on the right lines with the article, here is the work in evidence so far...

The scene is a sunny but brisk afternoon in a local park in Leeds, the previous night was a triumphant return to music Liam Lennon and his and band Renaissance who set the house ablaze with a gig Leeds’ o2 academy, two nights before the release of their massively anticipated follow up to debut album Alone We Stand.

Interviewer: Right then Liam, where do I begin, sat here today you look as relaxed as you did last night when you were performing your heart out to Leeds’ finest, how did the gig pan out in your eyes?

Liam: Haha (Liam smirks) yeah you know, we erm felt really good up there (the stage) it was an electric night, the crowd were on form looked really happy, we came off stage buzzing so erm bring on the dates I guess.

Interviewer: One of the most notable things from the gig, was the crowd reaction to the new material, can you give us an incite into what we can expect from your new tracks…

Liam: Well it’s all sort of a blur now, but at the time I remember thinking, wow, these tunes are rocketing all round man which you know it what we wanted. You know we knew how important the second album is for a band like us, it can make or break your career and when we went into the studio on our first album we just got the job erm it was almost like we wanted it to sound like we made no effort, and we were just unleashing on our equipment. So we wanted to carry through to the second album, you know we didn’t want to make the same mistake as other bands and try to act all ‘grown up’ (Liam lifts and bends his middle fingers, with emphasis on the word) and really over produce the record to give it a deeper meaning, hell yeah we still want it to have meaning behind our stuff, but we aren’t four lads who studied at Cambridge, we just write about what we know, and on the second album we want the same guitars riff-ness and to feel as if we’re the same four lads off the street that we were at the time of Alone We Stand. You know man we wanted to create that same vibe with second album but spice it up a little and give it something new, something extra, but keep the no fucking nonsense attitude behind it, give it our all and keep it fresh if you get what I’m.

Straight away after asking only a few questions, I could tell Liam Lennon was a man oozing and crying in confidence, the charisma and drive in his voice, just glimmered his attitude towards making great music. His vision fir the band in clear, he wants to be the shepherd with all other indie follows his trends as the sheep.

Magazine Mock Up Cover 1

Magazine Publisher

I have the decided the company to publish my magazine will be 'Bauer Consumer Media LTD' I looked at other magazine publishers in consideration to picking a publisher but decided on Bauer because they currently produce magazines such as 'Q' and this magazine sometimes has 'popstars' such as Lady Gaga as their cover feature, and my magazine would contrast this because my magazine would focus more on a indie/alternative and Bauer would be able to publish both magazines as they could still attract different audiences.

This also helps to explain the reason why I didn't use 'IPC Media' because they already publish NME magazine and NME would include similar articles to my magazine, therefore IPC media might put more effort into NME magazine rather than mine and therefore giving it a better promotion so my magazine wouldn't sell as many copies. So because my magazine would be with 'Bauer' more expense would be put into publishing my magazine my magazine. So it might be able to rival NME in the indie/alternative magazine genre.

Test Shots Evaluation

After taking some test shots, I have decided that I am very disappointed with the quality of my tests, but it does make me glad that I actually did some test shots because I have realised some vast imporvements need to be made for when I come to do my final pieces of photography. First off I wasn't impressed with the bacground scene in terms of not having the roof of the wall cropped out, other than this I was happy with the bacground when it pure white, and you couldn't obviously tell the background was a wall. In the future if I was not to do a white background for my magazine colour, I would look into doing a countryside or forest background, to make it feel like 'Renaissance' are alone, and the only band carrying music forward Britain.

Furthermore I have decided when frontman Liam Lennon is posing on the front cover, he will be looking for the tradional 'I am the coolest person alive' expression and body posture. On a few of the tests shot with the test model, I used a few poses which included the 'innocent' I make music because I love it look. Plus the previously mentioned 'I'm the top person around here and I'm here to stay' look. I believe the latter look worked the best so I am going to try this image and do some more tests shot with the actual model who will be on my magazine cover to see if this look can be portrayed in the right way, if so I will proceed even further will this style of image.

Finally although I didn't believe the tests shots went extremely well and I want to improve them, I still believe it did give me some answers, for instance the pose I am going to put on cover star and it has also narrowed down what the backdrop will be to the front cover.

Media Test Shots

Golden Spiral

Using the basis and theory of Geometry, the golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral that has a growth factor b and is related to the 'Golden Ratio, φ' The Golden Spiral gets wider, or further away from it's starting for every quarter turn that it takes.

The main theory of The Golden Spiral is that the spiral shows us where our eyes are automatically attracted when we first look an image and the part we find most aesthetically pleasing, and quite often the place we are attracted to straight away is the eyes, so therefore if the eyes look promising then the rest of the image has increased chance of impressing.