Thursday, 5 May 2011
Friday, 8 April 2011
Monday, 28 March 2011
Friday, 11 March 2011
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Draft- Grade/Changes
After getting the feedback for my magazine i have realised that there is a lot of changes and improvements that i really want to make to all of the pages. The page that i want to change most is my contents page, i really do not like this page so i need to look into more styles of these to get more inspiration. On my double page spread i really like the layout, by having a picture on one half of the page and the article on the other half of the page i want to make some slight changes like the setting of the picture and look that the double page spread is giving off. My front cover needs work on the font, sizes and image, i think the layout is good because it doesn’t look too crammed but it doesn’t look too bare. Over all i would give myself a 2/3 as there is evidence of skills being used on photo shop but there is still a lot that can be improved.
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Double Page Spread Draft Article
As we sit in the little corner café on a busy afternoon in London Delilah starts tucking in to a full English breakfast preparing herself or the long busy day she has ahead. This very young artist has come from a girl singing in her local venues to becoming one of the countries most popular upcoming indie artists. We talk about what it’s like to have all this popularity in such a short space of time and working on her new stuff for her first UK tour to come later on in the year.
So Delilah, how does it feel to have got this far in such a short amount of time? From being spotted at one of your local venues to having people all across the country listening and being a fan of your music?
Honestly? I don’t think it has quite hit home yet, I mean when you hear your self being played on the radio for the first time or you see your music video on TV it’s the most surreal feeling any artist could ever feel.
Of course it must be so strange to hear people introducing your song on the radio, what were your first thoughts that came in to your head when this first happened?
I thought is this really happening to me? I mean I came from a normal background as a child, I didn’t have a very privileged up bringing. I didn’t go to a fancy stage school to be taught by the countries best musicians and teachers. I taught my self to play all of the instruments that I can play so to have come this far with out any singing lessons or any music lessons, I cant really describe how I’m feeling right now!
Well it must be an incredible feeling seeing as you’re still young and especially young in the music industry. So at what age did you start getting interested in music and singing?
I’m going to be honest with you; I wasn’t much a fan of any kind of music up until about the age of 12 or 13. Most artists say they were in to music from a very young age like four or five, but really what do most kids know about music at that age? At the age that I started becoming interested in music I think that’s when you really know what genre of music you like and whether you are actually interested in it or not. After I started enjoying music I wanted to learn how to play different instruments, my parents always said I had a lovely voice but I didn’t realise I could sing till I started trying to write and sing my own songs.
Wow so you were not at all interested in music till your teens? When did you start writing your own music?
Not at all! It was something that never really interested me until I went to see one of my dad’s favourite bands with him when I was about 12. Well it was a while after I became interested in learning to play musical instruments. After I had learnt to play the guitar and the piano I wanted to have something to play along too which was my own so I started to write my own music, don’t get me wrong it took me a while to find the right topics to write about, the first handful were diabolical and still to this day make me cringe inside when I think about them! But like everything you improve after time and they started becoming a lot better and meaningful.
I would love to hear those first few songs that you wrote! Do you ever or did ever perform songs that you wrote when you were younger?
Those songs will never see the light of day again! When I was performing in local and small venues I use to use some of my earlier songs quite a lot, some of them I wasn’t a massive fan of but there was a bit more of a variety if I did. I think having a bit of variety within the songs you sing keeps the crowd more interested to what you have to give next and its also more fun performing different songs! One of my first ever song’s is still my favourite and will be included on the album.
Talking of the album, can you give us a tiny clue to when it will be released?
I can’t give an exact month yet, but hopefully around summer time. I would love to have it out by then, summer is my favourite time of year and the songs that I am working on at the moment would sound great around then. We will have to see! There is one thing I can tell you though, my first tour will be starting at the beginning of July.
That’s not long away then! Any special guests coming along on the tour with you?
Nope not long at all I can’t wait! I want to have new artists come with me on the tour, I would like to give people the chance that I had.
Well Delilah, thank you very much for making the time to be interviewed by Lithium magazine. We hope to see you again very soon as you tour and launch your first album!
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Out of all of the text shots this is my favourite, I like this one because it’s the kind of photo that I want on the front cover my magazine. I like how Katie is looking directly at the camera and also how her lipstick stands out as she is dressed in black and white. The red lipstick and black and white clothing will go with the colour scheme that I want to use for the magazine. For the final photos i want the lighting to be much better so there is no shadowing on the image.
Simple Mock ups
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Photo Inspiration
This photo is how I would like the front cover image to be shot, but just with a white background instead. I really like the colours used in this image as it has a colour scheme with the brown and orange tones. With the image on the front of my magazine I would like there to be a noticeable colour scheme making the image and the cover look smart.
Monday, 31 January 2011
Feedback Evaluation- 25 Word Pitch
From the comment I have had on my 25 word pitch I have been advised to make sure that if I am using minimal text on my front cover to make the cover high quality, making the images stand out and also the title of the magazine and using the right colour scheme.
Kinki Eyes
List of things to do
1- What have you learnt?
2- Software
3- Market research, where does it fit in?
4- Institution profile
5- Double page spread draft interview
6- Mock ups
7- Feedback and evaluate feedback
8- Examples of other texts
2- Software
3- Market research, where does it fit in?
4- Institution profile
5- Double page spread draft interview
6- Mock ups
7- Feedback and evaluate feedback
8- Examples of other texts
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Artist Profile
Artist Profile-Name- Delilah Moon
Age- 19
Influences- Florence Welch, Laura Marling, Kings of Leon, Mumford and Sons, The Maccabees, The Libertines, Bombay Bicycle Club.
Vocals- Solo
Instruments- Guitar, bass, drums, piano, flute.
Releases(EP’s)- Phloem
Label- Domino Records
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Friday, 21 January 2011
Example of an interview- Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles use entirely unique sounds thanks, as Ethan Fawn (the beat-making half of the band) explains, to ‘this circuit-bent Atari that I bent in a 48-hour session in 2003 or 4’. They also cross genres (albeit unintentionally) which has lead to the dubious term ‘techno-metal’ being thrown their way. But they construct good, critic-confounding music, making them the perfect artists to lead by example. Time Out caught up with them, fittingly given their distaste for celebrity, at Dalston’s Nobody Inn. The night before, they played the Purple Turtle (‘Are you making that up? They allowed it to be called the Purple Turtle? There’s more than one Purple Turtle?’), headlining the first night of this year’s Camden Crawl. They shudder at trying to imagine the usual Turtle crowd ‘Oh, like jocks?’ suggests Alice Glass, the lyrical (and sociable) half.
‘Like frat-boy rapists?’ asks Ethan quickly adding that ‘we don’t have any control over where we play, so people shouldn’t associate us with any of that.’
There are more commonly applied associations from which Crystal Castles are keen to distance themselves. As we shall discover, this can make them a little prickly towards outlanders and, at times, each other. Ethan has intense brown eyes which promise a lurking malevolence; last week, he reduced a French journo to tears. He also frequently finishes Alice’s eager sentences – at one point she disappears, annoyed, for a cigarette.
Leaning forward, shoulders hunched and constantly tapping his lighter on the table, Ethan busts a few misconceptions. Firstly, ‘We don’t like any computer games. We’re not named after a computer game. It’s a coincidence. Everyone always asks about it but I’ve never seen the game, I’d never heard of it,’ says Ethan. ‘They’re a waste of time,’ says Alice. Furthermore, she adds, ‘I fucking hate action comics. They’re fucking unreadable.’
Neither are they keen on being lumped in with the electromob. ‘We’re influenced by the noise scene,’ says Ethan. ‘We came together ’cause we both loved the same obscure noise bands. We didn’t want to copy what they were doing – we wanted to put a new spin on it, so we thought: instead of using distorted guitars, we’ll use circuit-bent keyboards or whatever.’
‘We liked bands that experimented in abrasiveness,’ says Alice, ‘we tried at the beginning to make everything as abrasive and harsh on your ears as possible and now – ’
Ethan interrupts: ‘That’s the only reason why I was sampling from a circuit-bent Atari, because the sounds were annoying.’
‘Annoying people still evokes an emotion in them,’ says Alice. ‘When you hear a bunch of crazy sounds you’re gonna feel something.’ And this is the heart of the matter – without emotional content, originality and uniqueness are utterly trivial. Crystal Castles have this pinned down nicely. In songs where it is almost impossible to decipher any words (‘I’m gonna put my lyrics up… it’s mind-blowing how people are completely, completely wrong,’ comments Alice) they still convey a shed-load of meaning – Burial style – in splintered melody and melancholic drum-loops. As a result, their long-awaited debut LP is an exceptionally heavy record, full of tunes their fans have known for literally years. However, the performance of electronic music has not settled to a standard, leaving Crystal Castles and similar outfits’ live shows vulnerable.
This was evidenced in the shows they played at The Scala in December last year, although the fault lay partly with the audience; a crowd somewhat compromised by their own sense of stratospheric cool. Mention of the Scala shows touch a nerve already tweaked by the Inn’s
pub-moderne styling and fretwank-heavy playlist. ‘We did a live show and people wanted more and – ’
‘We didn’t have any more,’ fills in Alice.
‘So I did a DJ set,’ continues Ethan. ‘Yeah, it was a set of my own stuff [by which he means Crystal Castles]. We hardly ever do that. That was one of two times we did that. Let’s just forget about this. You can’t tell the difference between us playing live and DJing? What, were you high or something?’ He fiddles with his lighter on the table.
‘We’re always experimenting with how we play live. When we started it was me on drums and sequencer, and her on vocals. Then we added a keyboard that she would play, then it was just me on distorted bass guitar and she’d sing. It’s always changing…’
‘Tonight our friend’s gonna be playing drums,’ says Alice. ‘He’s in a one-man band called Parallels, we dragged him out of that.’
That evening, an appreciative Dingwalls boils over the line of security walling-off the stage. Alice, in a soaked Minnie Mouse T-shirt, screams at them repeatedly; ‘Fuck off, right?’. If Crystal Castles can make a bunch of gig-hardened Camden crawlers act like apes, imagine how well they’ll go down in suburbia where, so we read, the kids are entertainment-starved and violent. What a way to forward-think
‘Like frat-boy rapists?’ asks Ethan quickly adding that ‘we don’t have any control over where we play, so people shouldn’t associate us with any of that.’
There are more commonly applied associations from which Crystal Castles are keen to distance themselves. As we shall discover, this can make them a little prickly towards outlanders and, at times, each other. Ethan has intense brown eyes which promise a lurking malevolence; last week, he reduced a French journo to tears. He also frequently finishes Alice’s eager sentences – at one point she disappears, annoyed, for a cigarette.
Leaning forward, shoulders hunched and constantly tapping his lighter on the table, Ethan busts a few misconceptions. Firstly, ‘We don’t like any computer games. We’re not named after a computer game. It’s a coincidence. Everyone always asks about it but I’ve never seen the game, I’d never heard of it,’ says Ethan. ‘They’re a waste of time,’ says Alice. Furthermore, she adds, ‘I fucking hate action comics. They’re fucking unreadable.’
Neither are they keen on being lumped in with the electromob. ‘We’re influenced by the noise scene,’ says Ethan. ‘We came together ’cause we both loved the same obscure noise bands. We didn’t want to copy what they were doing – we wanted to put a new spin on it, so we thought: instead of using distorted guitars, we’ll use circuit-bent keyboards or whatever.’
‘We liked bands that experimented in abrasiveness,’ says Alice, ‘we tried at the beginning to make everything as abrasive and harsh on your ears as possible and now – ’
Ethan interrupts: ‘That’s the only reason why I was sampling from a circuit-bent Atari, because the sounds were annoying.’
‘Annoying people still evokes an emotion in them,’ says Alice. ‘When you hear a bunch of crazy sounds you’re gonna feel something.’ And this is the heart of the matter – without emotional content, originality and uniqueness are utterly trivial. Crystal Castles have this pinned down nicely. In songs where it is almost impossible to decipher any words (‘I’m gonna put my lyrics up… it’s mind-blowing how people are completely, completely wrong,’ comments Alice) they still convey a shed-load of meaning – Burial style – in splintered melody and melancholic drum-loops. As a result, their long-awaited debut LP is an exceptionally heavy record, full of tunes their fans have known for literally years. However, the performance of electronic music has not settled to a standard, leaving Crystal Castles and similar outfits’ live shows vulnerable.
This was evidenced in the shows they played at The Scala in December last year, although the fault lay partly with the audience; a crowd somewhat compromised by their own sense of stratospheric cool. Mention of the Scala shows touch a nerve already tweaked by the Inn’s
pub-moderne styling and fretwank-heavy playlist. ‘We did a live show and people wanted more and – ’
‘We didn’t have any more,’ fills in Alice.
‘So I did a DJ set,’ continues Ethan. ‘Yeah, it was a set of my own stuff [by which he means Crystal Castles]. We hardly ever do that. That was one of two times we did that. Let’s just forget about this. You can’t tell the difference between us playing live and DJing? What, were you high or something?’ He fiddles with his lighter on the table.
‘We’re always experimenting with how we play live. When we started it was me on drums and sequencer, and her on vocals. Then we added a keyboard that she would play, then it was just me on distorted bass guitar and she’d sing. It’s always changing…’
‘Tonight our friend’s gonna be playing drums,’ says Alice. ‘He’s in a one-man band called Parallels, we dragged him out of that.’
That evening, an appreciative Dingwalls boils over the line of security walling-off the stage. Alice, in a soaked Minnie Mouse T-shirt, screams at them repeatedly; ‘Fuck off, right?’. If Crystal Castles can make a bunch of gig-hardened Camden crawlers act like apes, imagine how well they’ll go down in suburbia where, so we read, the kids are entertainment-starved and violent. What a way to forward-think
I really like this Interview because it is an informal interview where it just seems its more of a conversation between Crystal Castles and the interviewer.
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
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Thursday, 13 January 2011
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