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Center name: Norbury Manor BEC

Center number: 14343

Candidate name: Hibah Jan 

Candidate number: 1093

Unit: G321

Final Front Cover

Final Contents Page

Final DPS

Evaluation:Question 7

7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation:Question 6

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

Evaluation:Question 5

5) How did you attract/address your audience?

 

Evaluation:Question 4

4) Who would my audience be for my media product?

4.Who would my audience be for my media product? from hibah24

Evaluation:Question 3

3) What kind of media  institution might distribute your media product and why? 

Evaluation:Question 2

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation:Question 1

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

DPS Layout

In this blog I will be discussing the layout of my double page spread and some of the changes I made, and also looking at the magazines double page spreads that inspired me.  

This is my final double page spread, The video above explains what changes I made from my initial layout and what aspects I kept the same.  

These are the Indie music magazine double page spreads that inspired me:

This DPS is from Wire magazine, I really like the minimal look to these pages and I wanted to try and create a minimal look like this. As you can see the image goes over half the page, I have done this also as I think it looks neat and helps the test and image link together

  

I also really liked Q's DPS of Lana Del Rey, I particularly like the use of the large letter which I used as inspiration for my large C in the background of my DPS. I also really like the lines on the top of the page where the artist name is written I used this idea for my page also as it in simplistic and geometric which is a big part of Indie designs.

  

This DPS is from Clash, I like the use of titles at the top of the page above the interview I think this is effective as it gives the audience an idea about what they are about to read, and draws them in to read and find out more.

DPS Links to Cover/Contents

This is a SlideShare in which I explain how the front cover, contents page and double page spread of my magazine link together.

DPS Links to Cover/Contents from hibah24

Artist Interview

This is the edited final artist interview, I was inspired by other Indie music magazines when looking  at format such as Wire. The research I did really helped as I learnt that the tone of the interview was very important and it helped me to decide on what kind of an interview were most commonly seen in Indie music magazines. I wanted to have a calm, relaxed tone in the interview and to make sure that the focal point was the music not the personal lives of the artists unless the two intertwined.   

So your mum and dad work in the line of music, have they taught you any tricks of the trade?

Well we both learnt the art of performing music and enticing the audience from our mother who is a stage actress/singer and our dad taught us to play many instruments such as the piano, guitar and many more.

Which famous musicians do you admire? Why? 

We love many indie artists; we love The xx, The 1975, Daughter, London Grammar, Melanie Martinez, Yuna and several more. Although our music is different and we think does not replicate any other, we still feel as though these artists have helped us shape our music.

Comic Haze is a great band name as is the album title ‘Galaxy in a Glass Bottle’. How did the theme of space come about?

We both adore space, we traveled a lot as kids and the only thing that really stayed the same in our travels was the sky. From a young age, we star gazed and studied night and day and that has influenced a lot of our music. The band name, the album, and the songs are a reflection of our childhood and the love we still hold for space.

You are both verbal when it comes to the discussion of the Indie genre, what is your response to those who say Indie is dead?

I think our response is simple, Indie is not dead, and it grows stronger with every new sub-genre and musician who is ready to create new innovative music. I think that’s what we have always aimed to do, to prove to people that indie is so much more then what they think it can be.   

How do you reach out to the fans?     

Social media is a platform we love, things like Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram and Snapchat allow us to have communication with the amazingly beautiful fans who we thank every day for helping us get where we are today. We also love to meet the fans, so we try to organise loads of meet and greets when possible.

Fashion is something I hear you enjoy. How would you describe your styles?

Fashion is a big thing for us, we like to show how the genre of indie heavily influences our fashion, I would say that our style is Indie Grunge, denim, black jeans, graphic tees and some killer shoes. We actually have been designing a clothing line for H&M, which will be coming out very soon. We cannot wait to share our fashion style with the fans, and hope they love it as much as we do. 

Are you girls thinking of going on tour any time soon?

That is definitely something we would want to do and there has been discussion of it, we are hoping to tour in a couple of months. We really want the fans to hear the album live and a tour would be the perfect way to share it with them. 

DPS Image Decisions

This is the image I used in my DPS and the reasons I choice it.

This is a image I was thinking about using, I like the use of a birds eye view image and the natural Indie vibes the picture had but it did not have any mis-en-scene linking to music and I wanted the image to be more musically related and was cautious not to make it look like a fashion magazine double page spread.

I may consider putting the image on the page but if it makes the page overcrowded and takes away the minimal Indie look that runs through the magazine I will leave it out

Below are the other image I took but did not use either because I did not think they matched the magazines tone or because they did not show a musical aspect.