LO4: Evaluation

Front Page

In my proposal I wanted to create a magazine that was both entertaining and educational.  I think I have made the magazine more about entertainment than education. I also wanted it to be a magazine that would highlight unsigned Sheffield bands.  I've interviewed Calling Angels and I've been to a gig and I've reviewed The Vellas who are both unsigned Sheffield bands. I have made my magazine about music and I think it will appeal to 16-19 as I outlined in my proposal.

In my proposal I said I would have "a front cover with my masthead at the top and the acts from one of my double page spreads will be on the cover. The front cover will show the masthead, main cover image and cover lines." I have succeeded in this because I've got my masthead at the top of the magazine and a list of all the bands that will feature in my magazine. This links back to the brief as it a Sheffield based magazine for a Sheffield based company. The magazine relates to both Sheffield and the target audience as it is about bands with a teenage following that are from Sheffield or are in Sheffield at the time. This follows magazine conventions as it includes a masthead, a main cover image, an idea self/partner, main cover lines and Sell lines.
 This help me make with the sell lines.
 This help place the Main cover image. 

Content page

In my contents page I have given a list of the features that will be in the magazine.  In my proposal I said I would have a list of  the “Top ten gig places in Sheffield” and I have included this in my contents and this was in the brief in SPH publishing. I have also added a list of regular pieces and features along with the page numbers of where the articles would be. The magazine conventions observed in the content page are as follows, there is a banner, the page consists of a summary of the contents of the magazine, there is a main image. I did this be using the box tools and place tool to get the image in the place and the text boxes tools. The image below are what I used.


this is the box tool with help me make the boxes.

This is the placement tool which help me put my magazine image on.


This is the text tool so I could write the summary of what in the magazine and title.


DPS

My double page spread is of a band call Calling Angels who appear on the front cover.  This is a young band who should appeal to my target market of young Sheffielders. The article is in a question and answer format and has a picture of the band on it. In my proposal I said I would do a review of a gig but I decided to interview a band instead because I thought the article would connect more with my readers. This also includes magazine conventions such as Ideal self/partner, is written like an interview and has gutters.

 This tool help me write my interview in texts boxes.
 This is help me put the image and logo of Calling Angles.

Body Copy For Interview Calling Angles

  How did you get together?
Ashleigh: “We formed at high school. I met Kyle in form where we just messed around. We met Lucy later on because she is in the year above us and we met since I was friends with her boyfriend and we started talking and we found out we all had a love of music. We have been best friends since. We first started playing at Lucy’s house just messing around and her mum told us we were good and then the more and more we played and make songs together, we realised we were becoming a band. We are a band now and we need a name so that we start could start uploading our music to our own YouTube channel.”
Are you writing any more music?
Maeve: “Yes, we are always writing. I write everyone single day I love music. I see something, it can be anything and then I write lyrics about it.  Most of what I write is never used because they’re never any good but maybe 1 out of a 100 is good. I take it to the rest of the guys. We have a band meeting and look at the songs we have written and make and make them.”
If there’s a disagreement about what songs get made, how do you sort that out?
Maeve: “Obviously, we don’t agree all the time.  It’s done by a show of hands and majority decision wins – it’s a democracy!” 
                          
What about royalties?
Ashleigh: “We hope we’ve learned from other band’s mistakes.  Some of the best bands in the world have split up over money.  We’ve taken the example of U2 where all the members get an equal split of the royalties because everyone contributes something at some point and we want everyone to share the money and everyone gets their name on the credits no matter what they put in.  We don’t want to split up over money. We don’t want to end up not speaking to each other again or worse, only speaking to each other through lawyers!”
Which bands have inspired you?
Ashleigh: “A lot of bands inspire us because we don’t like sticking to a style. We like the freedom to write whatever we want rather than a set genre and we don’t want to be stuck figuring out what style we want to work in, what sounds right with the song. We always like to make our songs more personal so that we don’t get bored of that song like some songs on the charts. Later we can be look back and think that was my life at that point like Adele with 19, 21 and 25.”
You said that a lot of bands inspire you so what music are you listening to in at the moment?
Ashleigh: “Today I have been obsessed with the song “Malibu” because I think Miley Cyrus’s voice is amazing. I already think that it will be my summer hit.” 
Maeve: “I love The Vamps and I went to see them a couple of weeks ago and now I keep listening to them in the middle of the night. I also think it’s awesome that they support new bands. For example, they’ve signed New Hope Club to their record label and I love New Hope Club’s latest single “Fixed”.”

You said that a lot of bands inspire you so what music are you listening to in at the moment? 

Ashleigh: “Today I have been obsessed with the song “Malibu” because I think Miley Cyrus’s voice is amazing. I already think that it will be my summer hit.” 

Maeve: “I love The Vamps and I went to see them a couple of weeks ago and now I keep listening to them in the middle of the night. I also think it’s awesome that they support new bands. For example, they’ve signed New Hope Club to their record label and I love New Hope Club’s latest single “Fixed”.”

What are your plans for the future?

Lucy: “We’re going to release our new single “Take Another Look” and then we’re going to do Tramlines in the summer.  Hopefully this will lead to some more gigs around Sheffield and South Yorkshire in the autumn.”

What’s your new single about?

Maeve: “We think the political debate has gotten toxic since the Brexit vote and Trump. All sides seem unwilling to see the other’s point of view and people who were friends are now fighting with each other.  Our song is about taking another look at the person next to you, at what you’re posting on social media and at what’s influencing you and then just taking a moment and reflecting if this is the person you want to be. Do you want to be a person who is kind to others? Do you think before you speak, or press send? One of the lyrics in our song is “Are you happy with what you see in the mirror?”

Wow, that’s a bit heavy! Are a lot of your songs political?

Ashleigh: “Not at all!  We just found a lot of our friends were at odds with their parents or grandparents. We heard there were a lot of arguments between generations that got very nasty.  Also, some of our friends are immigrants or even people who’ve lived in this country for years and they’ve had a lot of abuse from others online or, even worse, in person and they’ve been really hurt.  All we wanted to do with our song was make people think a little.”

Finally, on to something a little lighter! You said you were playing Tramlines this year, what are you looking forward to about playing this event?

Maeve: “I’m looking forward to the vibe.  The feeling of playing in our home city in front of all those cheering fans will be incredible.  We’re playing on one of the smaller stages, but we hope one day we’ll be playing on the Ponderosa stage. I love it when the crowd starts bouncing up and down and cheering.”

Ashleigh: “Yeah, I agree. When the crowd starts singing along and clapping, it’s a great a feeling. I can’t wait to play at Tramlines.  I can remember when it first started, and I loved the bands and I also love the fact that it was free.  I think it’s fantastic that people from all over come to Sheffield for this event.  Anything that brings people into my city is a good thing and then they’ll get to see all the amazing things Sheffield has to offer.”

Has Sheffield Tourist Board got you on retainer?

Ashleigh: (laughing) No! I’m just a Sheffielder through and through!

LO4; Version controls for DPS

Here is me creating the new page in Indesign which is an industry standard. Indesign helps with the layout since is has columns and sizing.

Here I am creating the boxes for the pages using the rectangle tool

Here I am creating the boxes for the interviews and other text using the rectangle  tool

Here I am inserting the text and am using the roundabout tool to keep all of the text in the box using the text tool, copying from the interview questions and answers

Here I have selected the interviewers speech so that I can colour it red

here I was selecting the colour for the box, I selected the second red down for my colour.

Here I am adding more text into the boxes for the interview using the text tool

Here I have finished adding and editing the text

Now I have inserted the band picture and their logo using the import tool and the box tool.

I have save this as ".indd " which will make it lossless and high quality to help you to keep editing the pages and means it is set up for printing purposes.

I used these folders to make sure my version control were write so I didn’t lose the work and I wrote the dates that I save them so I could tell the new version from the old versions. This help me stay organised.

screenshots

I used Indesign to create my content sheet so I can get the layout right since you can add slug and columns. Indesign is also good to use since it is an industry standard which is what we need to create a magazine that could actually be sold. You use in different files so I could put this work on the internet and print it out it would be the same. 

Here I am using the rectangle tool to create boxes.

Here I am selecting boxes to import pictures

Here  I have imported the pictures into the contents page, having pictures related to what will be on the pages is a technique used by professional magazines to help the reader understand what will be on the page

Here I have inserted all of the text for the contents page using the text tool, this tells the reader what will be on each page.

I used these folders to make sure my version control were write so I didn’t lose the work and I wrote the dates that I save them so I could tell the new version from the old versions. This help me say organised.

LO1: Font Styles

I like the font Precious as it fits the style of the Magazine and the band. The other fonts do not fit the style of either the band, the magazine or both. This font has a light touch to it which is great because the are a mainly an acoustic band so it has a fancy and light to it. The other fonts has hard font which you could associate with a rock back.

LO3: Contact Sheet and evaluation

Useable photos.
I want to use these photos since they are clearest and unblurred photos *Image with sunglasses* this image will be used for my double page spread. I am going to edit it so that it is black and white except for her face, which will remain in colour. The location was chosen because the peace gardens with is know by the city.These photo's all fit the style of magazine as all of the models are teenagers, all wearing dark clothes and all look like members of a punk band.The other other with the different lighting is candid shot of a band performing which is good for my magazine so you see what they would be like performing. 

Non useable
These photos are unusable because some of them are blurry or the photo's themselves are at a strange angle.

LO4: Magazine Drafts

This came be improve with boxes on the letters. There aren't any graphics or slugs with are convection that I should have included in my magazine. The best part of my magazine is the main cover image since it has the audience gaze as well as giving the audience ideal self/partner. This is a best because my image is of a female which a lot of magazine have males on the cover so it show female empowerment. This image is great because the artist isn't being sexualise which lots of magazine do. 

This could be improve with straightening out of the social media and the text boxes of the titles to be the same so it looks more standard in the layout. I think the best is images because it nice look in the DPS.

This Magazine page could be improved by less writing and more picture so they are break in the writing. This could may be improve if I use a back ground image and had the writing on the image. 

Some of the best parts of my magazine page are images of black and white since it look indie which it show the band genre of music. The interviewer colours on the writing so it clear show who saying what.