Cover Draft

In todays media lesson I have been working on a basic draft of my magazine cover, I like the masthead so far, but obviously the sell lines need updating so that the are mor relevant and realistic.

Photo shoot Contact sheet

Here is my contagct sheet featuring all of the images taken in my photoshoot for the front cover model and double page spreads. displaying the images in the contact sheet makes it easier to decide which of the images are of the highest quality and which ones will look best to use in the magazine.

Time Lapse of Photo shoot

Design Sketches

Article Draft

Here is a draft for the article that I will be featuring on my double page spread. It is a fairly informal interview with the star featured on the cover of the magazine, about her splitting up with her former band, and embarking on a solo musical career.

You may have heard of her as being a part of one of Britain’s biggest selling and most popular girl bands of all time, the Brit award winning, chart topping and Grammy award nominated ‘Spotlights.’ But after the shock announcement of the bands split, the world was left grieving for the fun yet original styling’s of the girls. We were lucky enough to catch lead singer Charlotte Brown, in her only exclusive interview, where she discusses everything from life within the band and dealing with fame, to reasons why the band split up, and rumours of a possible solo project that she may soon be taking part in. 

Hi Charlotte, it is really good to meet you, how are you, and how is life since the shock announcement of the split of your band. ‘Spotlights’?

Hello, it is really good to meet you  too, and I am really well thank you, life has been really hectic recently, I thought that it was mad all of the press attention that we got when we  were a band and were always hanging around together in public. But, since we announced the split to the general public, I haven’t been able to go anywhere without at least five paparazzi following me, and that’s on a good day, the other day I went to Tesco’s to do the food shopping with my mum, and there was a crowd of them around my car asking questions.

So are you getting annoyed at all of the press attention?

Well, I suppose that I am in a way, but then I have been in this business and the music industry for around five years now, and I know what it involves, so I am used to cameras following me wherever I go and people questioning all of my actions and even sometimes the outfits that I wear, but it’s the moments when they start harassing my friends and my family and getting to them that annoys me, it’s not fair for them that just because they know me they get hassled wherever they go as well.

Do you think all this attention will die down at some point?

Oh yes of course I do, the press will soon get bored of this story when they realise that there are no more juicy gossip and details to spill to the public, I’ve been thinking about taking a little break, maybe going on holiday to somewhere nice and hot and sunny, and hopefully by the time that I get back to England everybody will have forgotten all about me and all of the Spotlights drama and moved on to the next new thing to gossip about.

So, as you say this is going to be the only interview that you do speaking exclusively about your split with the Spotlights, are you going to tell us why it happened?

Well, I don’t really think that there was a specific reason for us splitting up it was a mutual thing between the three of us and we just decided that at this time it was right for us to be apart ant not carry on as a band and possibly pursue different career ideas ad opportunities.

So it wasn’t because you had a big band argument?

No, it really wasn’t, I know the press have speculated about this a lot over the past month or so, but it wasn’t an argument that caused us to split. Of course we have had arguments; we have been together as a band for the past three and a half years and spend a lot of time together on tour etc. And we have obviously had our fair share of arguments rows and tiffs, about a whole range of things, but it wasn’t because of this that we split up but it was a combination of lots of different reasons, and the fact that as a group we didn’t feel as happy as we once did when we first started out, and we decided that it would be a good time to end things so that we didn’t ruin our friendship.

So how are you girls getting on now, do you still see each other?

Yes of course we do, all of the time and its actually really nice now, because when we used to have to spend every minute of every single day together we used to get on each other’s nerves and get very easily annoyed at each other, but now that we see each other only once or twice a week we really enjoy it and its really nice to all see each other, catch up and have a laugh.  

So we have heard rumours about you possible embarking on a solo career, is that true? 

Well yes I suppose that it is true, I have always played the guitar and written music since I was a teenager, but   when we were in spotlights, I was never really given the opportunity to experiment with my own sound or my own music, because all of our songs were written for us, I have been writing a lot recently, and I hope to in future release a solo album of all of these tracks, but that is a long way off yet, they need a lot of work and at the moment they are very personal and private to me and I would not be confident sharing them with my fans just yet. 

Well Charlotte, thank you for taking the time out to speak to use to today, and we wish you the best of luck in your future career and any future solo projects.  Thank You.  And you can catch Charlotte and all the other girls From Spotlights in the documentary ‘Stars of the Noughties’ on 27th February on channel 4 at seven o’clock.

Masthead Designs

Here are some designs that I created as possible mastheads to use on my final music magazine, I first sketched out some initial designs and then used Adobe photoshop to create some digital designs, I have decided that my masthead should be clear and quite bold letters so that it is noticeable and easy to read, and stands out from other music magazines.

Model Release Form

Here are the release forms signed by the models featured in my magazine. The release forms allow me the producer to use the pictures that I have taken in my publication and wherever else I need to for advertising, distribution and promotion of the magazine. The model has to sign the form in order to give away the rights the pictures, by doing this it means that they cannot then at a later date decide that they do not like the images that have been taken and decide that they do not want them used. Model release forms are extremely useful in insuring that magazines are completely within the law when they publish images, and making sure that the magazine does not have to lose money from having to take new images.

Schedule

Here is a schedule that I created detailing all of the tasks that I have to complete during my media AS coursework task. As well as the main tasks there are also a list of subtasks included, making sure that everything that I need to to is detailed in the plan. The Schedule will help me keep on top of my workload, and make sure that I don't miss any tasks out, or forget to complete any.

Mood Board

  

Here is a mood board that I have created to signify the mood and feeling that I want my magazine to have, and the way in which I want it to come across to my target audience. Initially I made a list of images that I thought would work well depicting the mood of my magazine, and then used search engine websites such as Google Images and Pic Search to find the images. I then used Microsoft PowerPoint to bring the images together as the mood board.

Initial List of moodboard ideas.

Colour Connotations

Here are the different connotations of colour that i may include in my magazine, i created this image my typing the information on to Microsoft Powerpoint, then exporting the slide as a JPEG image so that i could place it here on my blog.