Music Magazine Interview

The Interview:

Appearing at the Royal Festival Hall in London for MTV Unplugged on the 23^rd of August 2006 Harbor was first performed without frontman Chris. The audience was expecting the heart-thumping performance of frontman Chris Hinton to appear in other glamorous performance. But instead, with Chris Hinton being “ill” that day at the last minute, Matt Hunt took the stage, with his first performance as a frontman, this had been chosen by fans as their best ever performance. Everyone stood still waiting for Chris to come on stage in an explosive manner, but instead the 13-foot high stage welcomed Matt Hunt. And the show was a success. Knowing that the show had been a success Hunt had always known that he could perform solo. With the band slowly tear apart to its roots, Hunt left and tried to perform something close to the MTV Unplugged performance of 2006. Now Hunt has been even more successful than being with Harbor.

 “Definitely Not! I’d Never Reunite the Band,” Hunt said, “I know it’s what the fans want, but it seems everyone does things in life to please other people, but what’s the point? You should do things in life because you want to do it, not because some random people want you to do another gig together.  I don’t play guitar because some guy called John said ‘play guitar’, if so I’d be a very busy guy playing the banjo and drinking every energy drink on the plant cause someone said so. You should do it because you want to. If one day I don’t want to play the guitar, I’ll do something else. So the moral is; do what you want; be a rock star!”

Harbor has been sued over copyright 19 different times, and one particular artist ‘Oasis’ has sued them 14 of those times for lifting riffs and entire lyrics of their songs, but Harbor denies stealing them because they said “Oasis did it! Why can’t we?” Matt continued, “I hate it when people say ‘you’re just another band’ or ‘another Oasis’. OK some of our songs sound like Oasis, but really I don’t think we were anything like Oasis.” Matt said. “Everyone I see or hear was or is comparing us as a modern Oasis. Who cares?”

Music Magazine Double Page Spread (Final)

Media Magazine Contents Page (Final)

Music Magazine Front Cover (Final)

Music Magazine Front Cover Development Stages

Planning the Photo Shoot for the Music Magazine

Planning the Photo Shoot

4 Images

Front Page (Matthew)

Costume: the model is going to be wearing casual clothing

Props: the model will be holding and playing the acoustic guitar.

Setting: the background will be plain.

Facial Expressions/Pose: the model will be focused and looking at the camera.

Hair and Make-up: the model will not need any make-up, and their hair will be short and neat.

Shot-Type: the shot will be a medium close-up.

Lighting: the lighting will come from the front of the model

Content Photo 1 (Matthew)

Costume: the model is going to be wearing casual clothing

Props: the model will not be holding any props

Setting: the background will be plain.

Facial Expressions/Pose: the model will be focused and looking towards the camera lens

Hair and Make-up: the model will not need any make-up, and their hair will be short and neat.

Shot-Type: the model will be standing up and will be a medium close-up

Lighting: the lighting will come from the back of the model

Content Photo 2 (Chris)

Costume: the model is going to be wearing a grey coat with the collars up

Props: the model will not be holding any props, and his hands are going to be behind his back

Setting: the background will be plain.

Facial Expressions/Pose: the model will be looking relaxed and looking majestic

Hair and Make-up: the model will not need any make-up, and their hair will be short and neat.

Shot-Type: the model will be standing up and will be a medium close-up

Lighting: the lighting will come from the front of the model, to well light the model

Double Page Spread (Matthew)

Costume: the model is going to be wearing casual clothing

Props: the model will be holding and playing the acoustic guitar.

Setting: the background will be plain because I will be making the image greyscale.

Facial Expressions/Pose: the model will be focused and looking at the guitar.

Hair and Make-up: the model will not need any make-up, and their hair will be short and neat.

Shot-Type: the model will be sitting down and the shot will be long.

Lighting: the lighting will come from the left side of the model

How Music Artists are Represented in Magazines

Music Magazine Layout Plans

Front Cover Plan

Contents Page Plan

 Double Page Spread Plan

Music Magazine Prompts

The representation of the artist is very important because it gives off an impression to the artists. It keeps the same type of mysteriousness as the cover does to the photo.

This is consistent because it still uses the same red and white that is used on the front cover and the contents, and quite a lot of the inside of the magazine.

The artists name is enlarged because if someone is looking through the magazine for that particular artist then they will have a better chance of finding it and also it’ll give an insight on who the person next to the interview actually is. And if the artists name was smaller than the interview’s text then the interview will not look very important to the reader.

The text is a very distinguishable and easy to read because the text is small. The text is small because the page needs to be filled with masses of text and information. If there wasn't so much information packed into the page or any of the pages in the magazine, then the reader may not think it is worth reading compared to another magazine. It is very typical to have 3 columns because then the lines aren't very long and don’t lose their line.

Page numbers are very important because of when someone needs to refer back to a certain page they are able to find it again very easily. Also when looking through the contents the reader has to be able to easily find important articles or interviews.

A smaller masthead or logo in the bottom page of the magazine is important as a generic piece of information to the magazine. This is important because if a random person is looking over a person’s shoulder a reading the magazine this will inform the reader which magazine this is.

This date is include to the bottom of the page as well because if someone were to read this magazine in the doctors or hospital or something then they’ll be informed how out of date the magazine is. Also the page number is included in the bottom of the page to inform the reader which page their own.

The web address is included in the magazine because not all the information will be included in the magazine, so the reader can be redirected to find out more information about the magazine.

This very typical and popular feature of capitalising the start of a paragraph or section, is a magazine feature that is used throughout many magazines. This is used because  it  informs the reader of a new section in the article, it also looks very professional in the magazine.

The purpose of the photograph is to give an idea of the artists personality and on this certain photograph is the idea of mysteriousness. Another reason for the photograph is that if the page was only just text and not a single photo the reader may think the page will be boring and skip past and not read it. Having a picture on every page of a magazine is now a generic feature.

The interview only contains striking and important information, that information will also be important to the artist, this may be about new albums or new tours. This interview is told in fragments to the reader. This hooks the reader till the end with hiding information they want to find out.

Music Magazine Features Table (Contents Page)

Contents Page

Music Magazine Features Table (Front Cover)

Front Cover

Target Audience for my Music Magazine.

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Music Magazine Questionnaire Analylze

Which genre of music would you most likely be interested in?

Please list five of your favourite artists...

Most occurred favourite artists:

·         AC/DC

·         Arctic Monkeys

·         The Beatles

·         Foo Fighters

·         Greenday

·         Metallica

·         Muse

·         Nirvana

·         Oasis

·         Pink Floyd

·         Radiohead

·         Queen

·         Queens of the Stone Age

Music Magazine Questionaire

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My Review of my Student Weekly Magazine Cover & Contents

My Review of my Student Weekly Magazine Cover & Contents

Strengths:

·         The photo of the model I took was clear, and not blurred or pixilated, and there was good light on the model too

·         The texts on the cover and contents appear professional, stand-out against one-another, and generally blend with each other

·         The sizes of the texts seem appropriate as they distinguish well, you can clearly tell which is the: masthead; subtitles; headers; and information

·         In the magazine I included a lot of generic information, for example the barcode or the copyright on the contents

·         The model – Chris – has got a bag on, and holding books which gives an idea of a school environment

·         Throughout the magazine I kept a generally house style of: square shapes; bold text; and those colours: Mantis Green; Grey/Black; and White

Weaknesses:

·         Even though the photo was clear I feel like I may be able to take a better photo with better composition, just generally closer to the model

·         Beneath the banner I feel as if the room there is wasteful, even though it give the magazine space from all the text I feel as if it would have been better with more there

·         My cover isn’t very organised as everything is dotted around on the page

·         On the contents, I’ve noticed that the page numbers are slightly different sizes and if I had more time I could correct the sizes

Student Weekly Magazine Cover and Contents

Student Magazine Table

Student Magazine Mind-Map Presentation

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Student Magazine Criteria Points

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   Medium photo-shot – the shot mustn't be too close or there’ll be no room for text, the photo shouldn't have too much room otherwise the photo won’t stand out.

·      Font’s – using different fonts will help make the more important text stand out, also the size of the text will distinguish different texts too.

·      House Style – using a set of colors (around 3, e.g. blue, red, and white) will create a basic structure for the magazine; it will also allow the magazine to flow constantly throughout.

·     Costume and Representation of the Student on the Front Cover – needs to be well presented, and appealing to people, the photo needs to be well light mainly the student, and leave negative space for text around the student.

·      Structure of the Magazine – the magazine needs to be well structure and have a maintaining flow, the house style must be kept the same throughout the magazine, and the fonts must also be kept the same to understand what is what of the magazine.

·  Generic Information – the magazine must contain things such as: a barcode; magazine title; subheadings; information; date and title; etc.