Contents Page Target Audience Feedback

I received some feedback from my target audience, in this Prezi I have presented how I worked from the feedback to better my magazine.

Making My Album Cover

This is how I created the album cover for my band 'Cosmic Haze', that is placed in my contents page. 

Album cover from hibah24

Contents Page Text/Features

In this blog I have embedded a Powtoon with an audio in which I discuss the Contents Page Text/Features on my contents page.

DPS Stand First

I looked at two stand first's, one was from Wire Magazine from an interview of the indie band Invisible Jukebox and the second one was from Billboard and was an interview with The 1975s (Indie band) frontman Matt Healy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both Stand Firsts began by introducing the band members and then proceeded to tell a brief history of the bands involving where and when they began and the evolution of their music. Billboard also described the singers appearance and the location of the interview, this makes the reader feel as though they are their listening to the interview as it takes place. The two Stand Firsts were rather short lasting around two paragraphs long, but they both set the tone of the interview. In the Wires Stand first we can tell the interview will be solely on the music but with the Billboard one we can tell from the talk of personal affair the interview will be more based on the artist as a person rather then the music they produce.

 

From my research I have created my Stand First for my Indie band Cosmic Haze:

 

Cosmic Haze is a sister duo formed of Ava (18) and Aurora (17) Skys. They were formed in 2012 in London. They are Indie/Alternative bands, who are shaking up the Indie genre by mixing different sub-genres to create new and innovative music. The girls have music in their blood with both of their parents coming from a musical background; in fact, it was their parents who encouraged the girls to pursue a carrier in music and helped them begin. The girls started busking on the streets of London at the ages of 15 and 14.

This month the girls released their first Album ‘Galaxy in a Glass Bottle’, it has eight remarkable, award winning songs on it and has been a smash hit with fans and critics.   

 

 

    

DPS Market Research

This is a mood board of four different interviews I read and watched. All are interviews with Indie musicians.

  

 

From this research, I have found that interviews styles can very even in the same genre, the laid-back tone can be seen in many interviews, and I think this style suites my magazines tone the best. I think people enjoy knowing something personal and exclusive about the artist such as their opinions on a topic or new and upcoming activates they are taking part in.  

 

 

Contents Page Colour Choices

This is a short audio clip that explains what colours I used on my contents page and why I choice them.

Contents Page Layout

This is a SoundCloud audio in which I explain the hoe my layout has developed and what aspects have changed and stayed the same.

Contents Page Image Choices

I decided to use to other Indie artist on my contents page, here are the images I choice of them and reasons for why I choice them.

This is a mid shot. I choice this image as I like the way the model is looking at the camera but one of her eyes is covered giving an element of mystery making the reader want to read more. The model is wearing a dark scarf and a blue jacket, this links to Indie fashion.
 

I like the white background as it matches the monochromatic colour scheme of the front page.   




This is the second image I will use it is of another Indie artist. It is a mid shot with the artist looking down, adding an element of mystery, the model also wears a Denham shirt. The model has whiskers on her face as her name is Kitty and her branding is cat whiskers.

Contents Page Research

These are some images of Indie music magazine contents page deconstruction, in these images I have discussed and highlighted aspects of the contents pages I think match my genre and house style.

 



Artist featured on contents page

This is two short artist profiles for the other two artist I will feature in my magazine contents page. 

Artist featured on contents page from hibah24

Front Cover Target Audience Feedback

This is a video about the the feedback I received from my target audience and what changes  I made after receiving the feed back.

Front Cover Linked to Research

This is a prezi that discusses how my research was used when creating my magazine.

Front Cover Features (text)

This is a video of the Front Cover text I put on the page and what effects I added to them using PowerPoint.  

Here are the slides: