Contents Page Main Image:
Double Page Spread Main Image:
Monday, 29 February 2016
Saturday, 27 February 2016
Social Media Responses: Front Cover Photoshoot
I decided to share my favourite photographs from the brick lane photoshoot with people on social media. These photographs were:
I decided to find out which of these photographs was most popular amongst my target audience. I used Google hangouts and instant messaging to send the photographs to people within my target audience. Before I sent the images, I asked them to respond with which photograph was their favourite and was most appropriate for a magazine front cover image. These were the responses that I received:
These responses show that different photographs were popular amongst my target audience. However A, C and E seem to be the most popular; these photographs also happen to be my favourite out of the 5. Therefore I am going to use on of these images on my magazine front cover. I will decide which image will be the magazine front cover, by playing around on photoshop and seeing what one has the best space around it for the masthead, cover-lines, etc.
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Front Cover Photoshoot
This photoshoot took place in a studio location, using a white background. There were two outfit changes during this photoshoot which involved changing the top half of Josie's outfit. Below are some of my favourite photographs from the photoshoot.
Thursday, 11 February 2016
Additional Images For My Contents Page
I plan to include additional photographs that aren't of my model on my contents page to help make it seem more interesting and appeal to a wider audience. Therefore I have decided to include another image on the contents page. The image being of a gig that I attended recently, however this gig was not for a band of an Indie Rock Genre. However as you can't see the individual band members in this image so I am going to say that it is for a different band, such as The 1975.
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Double Page Spread Article
I have written an article for my double page spread that I based off of what people voted for from my questionnaire. I have come up with 5 appropriate questions that my target audience probably would like to know about a certain indie artists new album. I have used red font on quotes that I think would make a could pull quote to be used on the magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread.
How did you come up with the name for your new album “Night Circus”?
Some of the songs on this album have a very heavy and nostalgic quality to them and I felt like “Night Circus” really embodied feeling that I wanted the album to express. The name represents the fragility of dreams and how easily tainted they are. When I was a kid I used to make up stories about running away to the circus, becoming a huge star and making all my friends back at home jealous; it was my escapism and how I would cope with life when things got tough. For me the circus always had an inherently happy dream-like element to it, it was full of the promise of magic and mystery that I couldn’t find anywhere else and I revelled in it. The ‘night’ brings in a darker element to this concept however. We are taught, through movies and fairy tales, that bad things happen at night when all the lights go out; monsters follow us home to hide under our beds and we’re expected to fight them off all on our own. I felt like these two words together embodied what life and growing up is like; the excitement of the world begins to fade the more we live in it, kind of like how trips to the circus eventually become tedious, and the things that once fascinated us about life now terrify, like ageing and going out into the world on our own.
What is your favourite song to perform live off of the album?
When your performing songs live I think that kind of stuff just really depends on the type of reaction you’re getting from the audience, recently the crowd favourite has been “The Great Divide”. It’s one of the songs that most people in the audience like to sing along to and its one of my personal favourites I’ve written. I think I like it the most because reminds me of happier times like that feeling you get during long road trips with old friends singing along to good music in the backseat of some trashy minivan with the windows rolled down, the wind in your hair and a rarely felt sense of contentment in your chest. It’s just a feel good song that I feel that most people can relate to and its really great to see people reacting in such a good way to something you’re so proud of.
What inspires you the most during your song writing process?
I tend to draw inspiration from everyone and everything when writing. I like to focus on writing about past experiences a lot too, I find that music is the best kind of therapy and being able to capture the emotions I was feeling at a certain period in my life, be it good or bad, into a song really helps me to put life into perspective and see the bigger picture. Also the idea that someone that might be going through similar experience that I have would be able to listen to my music and possibly be able to relate to the lyrics I sing inspires me to keep writing.
If you had the opportunity to collaborate with any musician in the world who would it be?
Probably Julian Casablancas. I really like the unusual tone to his voice and raw quality it has which, I think, would blend pretty well with mine and I feel like he’d have some really creative input on how I can improve myself as an artist. ‘The Strokes’ were one of my first musical inspirations and they were partly the reason why I got into music in the first place so I feel like collaborating with him would just bring this whole surreal experience around full circle. Plus I find him oddly attractive.
What can your fans expect from you in the future?
I have some pretty exciting things lined up for the next few months that I can’t quite reveal yet but be ready you’re hopefully going to be seeing a lot from me this year.
How did you come up with the name for your new album “Night Circus”?
Some of the songs on this album have a very heavy and nostalgic quality to them and I felt like “Night Circus” really embodied feeling that I wanted the album to express. The name represents the fragility of dreams and how easily tainted they are. When I was a kid I used to make up stories about running away to the circus, becoming a huge star and making all my friends back at home jealous; it was my escapism and how I would cope with life when things got tough. For me the circus always had an inherently happy dream-like element to it, it was full of the promise of magic and mystery that I couldn’t find anywhere else and I revelled in it. The ‘night’ brings in a darker element to this concept however. We are taught, through movies and fairy tales, that bad things happen at night when all the lights go out; monsters follow us home to hide under our beds and we’re expected to fight them off all on our own. I felt like these two words together embodied what life and growing up is like; the excitement of the world begins to fade the more we live in it, kind of like how trips to the circus eventually become tedious, and the things that once fascinated us about life now terrify, like ageing and going out into the world on our own.
What is your favourite song to perform live off of the album?
When your performing songs live I think that kind of stuff just really depends on the type of reaction you’re getting from the audience, recently the crowd favourite has been “The Great Divide”. It’s one of the songs that most people in the audience like to sing along to and its one of my personal favourites I’ve written. I think I like it the most because reminds me of happier times like that feeling you get during long road trips with old friends singing along to good music in the backseat of some trashy minivan with the windows rolled down, the wind in your hair and a rarely felt sense of contentment in your chest. It’s just a feel good song that I feel that most people can relate to and its really great to see people reacting in such a good way to something you’re so proud of.
What inspires you the most during your song writing process?
I tend to draw inspiration from everyone and everything when writing. I like to focus on writing about past experiences a lot too, I find that music is the best kind of therapy and being able to capture the emotions I was feeling at a certain period in my life, be it good or bad, into a song really helps me to put life into perspective and see the bigger picture. Also the idea that someone that might be going through similar experience that I have would be able to listen to my music and possibly be able to relate to the lyrics I sing inspires me to keep writing.
If you had the opportunity to collaborate with any musician in the world who would it be?
Probably Julian Casablancas. I really like the unusual tone to his voice and raw quality it has which, I think, would blend pretty well with mine and I feel like he’d have some really creative input on how I can improve myself as an artist. ‘The Strokes’ were one of my first musical inspirations and they were partly the reason why I got into music in the first place so I feel like collaborating with him would just bring this whole surreal experience around full circle. Plus I find him oddly attractive.
What can your fans expect from you in the future?
I have some pretty exciting things lined up for the next few months that I can’t quite reveal yet but be ready you’re hopefully going to be seeing a lot from me this year.
Five Arches Photoshoot
For this photoshoot me and a Josie went around Five Arches park looking for different backgrounds that we thought might look interesting. There were 2 outfit changes during this photoshoot which involved changing the top half of Josies' outfit. Below are some of my favourite photographs from the photoshoot.
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Social Media Responses: Brick Lane Photoshoot
I decided to share my favourite photographs from the brick lane photoshoot with people on social media. These photographs were:
I decided to find out which of these photographs was most popular amongst my target audience. I used Google hangouts and instant messaging to send the photographs to people within my target audience. Before I sent the image, I asked them to respond with which photograph was their favourite and was most appropriate for a double page spread main image. These were the responses that I received:
These social media responses suggest that the photograph A and E is most popular amongst people within my target audience. I like both photograph A and E equally however I believe that photograph A is better suited to my magazine double page spread plan. Therefore I think that I am going to use photograph A as the main image on my double page spread.
I decided to find out which of these photographs was most popular amongst my target audience. I used Google hangouts and instant messaging to send the photographs to people within my target audience. Before I sent the image, I asked them to respond with which photograph was their favourite and was most appropriate for a double page spread main image. These were the responses that I received:
These social media responses suggest that the photograph A and E is most popular amongst people within my target audience. I like both photograph A and E equally however I believe that photograph A is better suited to my magazine double page spread plan. Therefore I think that I am going to use photograph A as the main image on my double page spread.
Brick Lane Photoshoot
For this photoshoot me and a Josie went around Shoreditch and Brick Lane looking for graffiti walls that we thought would look good for the double page spread. I also took photographs against poster walls as well as in the Vintage Store "Blitz". Below are some of my favourite photographs from the photoshoot.
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