front cover

I have recently taken pictures of Mat and Dom for my front cover. Because of the band name "Locked out" I thought it would be a good idea to get the boys in front of a locked door but showing some kind of anger/disappointment to the lock on the door.

This was my first picture I deeded to take, before I took it I had to make sure that the image became clear and had enough space so that could fit in mini headlines.
With this image it works quite nicely. The only problem I have with this image is that there is not enough facial expression, but I think so far this is the best image to used because of all the space surrounding it, giving me the chance to add in headlines.
As you can see I have added my music magazine title to see what it will look like in comparison to the other picture and to see which image will suit best.

This image was a close up of one of the pictures I had taken earlier. The reason for the close was so that I could get more facial expression, I wanted this mainly because then I could use a good headline for the band, and show there aggression of being locked out referring the name. Personally I don't think this picture Will work because there is not going to enough room and all my side headings will cover up the image making it look messy and over crowded.

By now I was wanting to get some different images, instead of always constantly having Matt bang on a door. The problem is that in this picture it doesn't have the aggression, it looks more like boredom. If I was to have this a my magazine cover I think the only used it would be is if the band were near a spilt situation because there facial expressions show disappointment. The picture has loads of space but I want the picture to represent the band name and not look like they are bored.

I was recommended that we should actually have a locked door in which it shows a good meaning towards the name. I don't like this image so much because of the sign on the door, and that you don't see much of Matt and again Dom now looks depressed. I don't think this image would give me enough space and the random coke bottle in Matt's trousers ruins this picture as well.

Once the images were taken me and the Boys had a quick conversation on what image would be best. They both recommend that I use either the close up or the picture where they are both sitting down. the reason being because it gave me space to used different font sizes and gave more space to add titles.

I think I will experiment a little bit more with my images, such as changing the colour to see if it gives it a better effect.

The treament

My magazine "Rock Star" is a weekly Rock magazine set for young teenagers. Its going to be sold monthly because this will save people money instead of spending more money every week.

The magazine will appeal to both genders because its easy to form. The people that star inside will be new bands, around from local areas, and people that are trying to make it big. Some times t will feature well know bands but I might use these bands for one off issues. However it will have the famous bands inside it's just that they wont be the main topic of the magazine. The main ideas I want people to get from this magazine is that it introduces people into new music, and help new bands make it famous.



Themes and typical features:

Features inside the magazine will include interviews, gig details, and live shows, I will also include a poster offer Evey 2 weeks. The sale value will be £2.75 for every month, this being an average fair price. I have now thought that the magazine would become a better adaption to be featured on the kerrang! website as a free online magazine.

Topical conversation involved the magazine will people views on gigs, recommendations on what good bands are out there. I think this magazine will be a good way to introduce people into unknown bands so this will get their popularity up. This can also be used to my advantage because I think a poll every 2 months will let the reader get their opinions out and this would be a great way to improve the magazine.

Typical features will involve the poster offer, using this as a bit of fun, also a free CD that has the new bands on so it gives the reader a chance to know if you like them or not.

The magazine Will be A4 and will have approx 45+ pages depending on how many bands a month we could find, and what advice we have . I'm thinking that having a weekly help from a well know band eg "30 seconds to Mars" in a questionnaire in what made them turn to music, who inspired them, and what advice they have for people that want to turn to music for a Carree



potential advertisers:

My magazine will introduce new bands, so I think my main adverts will be mentioning further education towards music, record dealers and how they can get you in high success, band concerts/gigs, places where you can buy good instruments. For example in the adverts case things like "Aloud.com" a ticket sale company, "gear4music.com" sells instruments, "EvoMusicRooms" record company.

I think having companies like that supporting my magazine will increase people buying it, this being that its know for helping people get further with their music, great on advice on what you need to become a world famous band, and an introductions towards new bands.





Editorial Team:



The people running the magazine will be people already in bands, and have close contacts to new bands some even local and see if they have what it takes to be featured in next months magazine.

I would prefer that they are young internes and have a good experience in English so that the interviews, cover stories, and gig reviews. I doing so im hoping that it would become a sauces and it will want more people to join bands, go to more gigs, and lsten to new music.

This will get the rattings up and increase in the profit.

Interview

It's rare these days to stumble across a new sensation of an all male rock band who already know they have made it big.
Puzzled by this? I certainly was. Drawing back to the days where Slipknot were know as 9 idiots in masks with people embracing the fact they had no talent. Well having have a recent 10 year anniversary I guess, the jokes on the people that didn't believe they could make it big.
Trying to make themselves a band I was joined by 2 of the band. "Locked out." Matt Barton and Dom Cowels two Shropshire boys know only by the music they play and the great entertainment they provide.
Entering the room you would think the world's next break through band would do all they could to create the perfect song and get started to creating it. From what I set my sights on it was highly doubtful. If you were to enter the room yourself you would have thought it was a place to dump your children from the havoc they created. "Can we get this over and done with. Cowels moans, I have a lot to get on with". With Dom getting agitated I turned my head to notice Matt gleaming at his nails looking around the room. Obviously in an uncomfortable position, it didn't help that it was to be their first major interview.
This child like behaviour included moments of the boys pretending to attack each other with their instruments, to me this seems rather quite funny and no physical harm was done showing they have a close relationship towards each other.
So lets start off on the pleasant side off life, in questioning where did you find the inspiration and time to form a band? Is it true that you feel you can make it to the high ranks of fame in the click of your fingers?
Matt seemed like the dominate leader, with no hesitation answering my questions one by one. "I can remember from a young age I was always passionate about music, my parents bought me a guitar when I was 6 and forcing me to play and never give up because I will never get anywhere in life."
I then turn my head and have a quick glance at Dom giving him a look on insisting him to answer my question. He slowly looked up and answered shyly, " I suppose I got into music when I was 10. walking by a music store begging my parents to buy me a guitar. The problem being we didn't have much money and my parents said the sentence all children dread...No! If you want something so bad then you have to earn a living to buy it for yourself.
Of course being at a Young age I threw a fit and smashed everything in my room, I can then remember turning my music up full blast and screaming along to the lyrics. From then onwards I can remember that every time I got in a mood the music would increase and the singing to calm me down came out.
I permanently got into singing by a simple mistake, this is the way it goes, got in a mood at school had my MP3 sat in the corner and sung, this being coincidental in a music lesson. After which my teacher mentioned of music lessons after school in which I took up singing such as joining the choir. Me being me I denied that and she then offer that I should at least take lessons and from there on I never looked back".
The story bought a shock of surprise to me, and made me and the boys sit in silence for a moment or 2, then the lads grinned at each other "We both met in college and we knew that the college were looking to form a band, they gave us a try out and noticed that e and the other lads had a great chemistry and announced that we would be the band.

How did such an odd name come to mind?

The lads both grin and fall to the ground in fits of laughter, as I looked at them fall to the ground now crying in hysterics. As they rose they instead that the other one told the story of how it came to be. "My girlfriend sent me a text years back clamming that she was left outside the house, her mum had gone shopping. She didn't have a key to the house her phone battery was almost dead, it was snowing and she wasn't wearing the most sensible clothes. I knew this from the text in capitals saying "I HAVE BEEN LOCKED OUT SIDE MY HOUSE, I HAVE NO KEY, ITS SNOWING AND I'M SO COLD..AND TO MAKE THINGS BETTER MY MUM WONT PICK UP HER PHONE!!!! CAN YOU HELP IN ANY TB LY xXx

From this I was devastated and in the end she waited and her mum came to pick her up. The following day, me and Matt were asked to think of a name, as we sat there I was looking back on my old texts. Then it came to me I can remember sitting up and shouting out 'LOCKED OUT.'

The album 'Give me 10 reasons why I should let you borrow this CD' is their first and yet will it stay that way. Looking back at their history the boys have never been on the same side and have always had their consent arguments 'I hated his guts at one point in life, he really drew the band apart and always saw himself as number one. It was brutal I couldn't cope but I knew that we can only get good music with great expectations and then I knew we had to solve our separate ways.
Barton sights his anger towards Cowels and looks ashamed at saying that to, after that bitchy comment was created they lads once again apologised to each other and told me 'In a time like this we need the band to be as one.' (THIS COMMENT WILL BE ENLARGED UNDER ONE OF THE PICTURES SO THAT YOU GET A PREVIEW INTO THE INTERVIEW)

I heard that the both of you were bought up in Shropshire (know as a small commune town). I have heard random descriptions from other people and it sounds like a bore. Has this had any effect in the music you produce.

The boys just shake there head, of course this confused me a little what part of the question was being answered. "We have been living in Shropshire all our lives, and like we said we know each other from college however our up bringing never really put us into the musical direction. I would have to say my pure inspiration was when I was sat watching Kerrang! T.V. and there was a new band playing. After the song finished we got an exclusive interview with the band, they said they grew up from a difficult home town. Their parents abbused them so they had music to solve their issues. As soon as I knew it I sat there, and realised that if I try to play an instrument then I can make it big like the band." Matt then grins picking up his guitar to play.
"Shropshire isn't the best up bring, when I came into my teens I was very depressed and my parents were near breaking point. To calm my anger like I said it was me singing, and boy did that pay off. Our first ever live show was in my girlfriend's hometown 'Clun' and yes I have to say it was a very dull place almost matches your description of Shropshire" Dom chuckles.

The majority of the songs sound like they were past memories towards your lives. "And maybe someday you will grow Maybe someday you will know Maybe someday you will end these tears
A little piece of me grows old I keep on walking down this road I've seen a million people change but I will stay the same And I know you, (Know you, know you) always steal and borrow And I know you, (Know you, know you) Never catch, you're never gonna catch tomorrow". Was this linking towards a bad relationship.
In such triadic cases the world is neither a pleasant place for your band or all that surrounds it. To Matt and Dom it seems the world is their playground and yet they still know what they are doing and seem to produce top quality music

"Never catch?" Explain

Bad relationship (Sigh), I had announced that I was going to be in a band and she simple said if that was going to happen then the fame and success would rise to my head.

I suppose really when you join a band the worst is just around the bend.

Exactly but I have someone new, and she respect's the demands that music have such as my constant gigs but the way she See's it is, she gets free tickets all the time and shes very happy with that. The lyrics are staying that in the end, anything you are desperate for you're never going to get/catch as I wrote down the lyrics.

Are the majority of your songs about this one relationship that went down hill.

No just the one song the others are about, well I guess Dom turns to Matt to think what the right words are to say. Matt fishes Doms thinking towards the track listings "They can have mixed reviews people can either love us or hate us but that will never draw us to a close

The album was know to be created in Matt's back garden with the help of his parents. I question the boys and they both grinned at each other and simp. A peculiar place to have a CD made but I huess its early days and thinks could be looking up. These boys know what they are letting them selves into, with a near split its almost as if they have been to hell and back.

After they have a little laugh about the story of it being Matt they explain the funny side of it, passing me a free copy of the CD I sill don't understand the funny side of it all. "To be honest nothing really is that funny its more of the case of the amount of fun we have had doing this in my garden. Into the latye of night just thinking of random songs and listening to previous artists for inspiration. The main funny side of it was the time we got dunk." Matt turns to look at Dom and again the laughter starts, they were really antogsisng me to hear the story. In a desperate measure I ask for the answer. "I cant remember half the story but the first track on our CD was created while we drunk. When the song was created we celbrated and got even more drunk and for some strange reason we wanted to see if we could have a guitar battle. In which we woke up to smashed up instruments and a burnt down house.

Images for the contents page

I had the great idea that I could put an image of 30 seconds to Mars newest CD This is War...but then I found out that I wasn't allowed to do this because it wasn't my idea and would. I was recommend that I make my own CD cover but not to spend too much time on this.
I remember that in Media as one of my course works I had to make a album for a pretend tour so I think I can use this to my advantage.
When I think of some new ideas I shall write them down. If I cant find many pictures to add to the contents page then I think I will add one big picture of a single shot and add it to the right and then have all the information on wha is availbe to the left.

For my interview I shall first write it in rough post it to my blog and get some opions on the work and then start to design my page. My interview is going to be asking Matt and Dom what they have done to make it this far, how the near spilt has effected them. Just like the second double page spread of 30 seconds to Mars I too might do a litle time line, the problem being I dont know what information I will have to use.

Live gigs

These pictures will be for a section in my magzine where im writting a live review. The actual images are from a gig I went to. It was In Birmingham In October it was Bowing For Soup 'Party in your pants tour 2009. This was one of the guest acts Zebra Head. I have added these pictures baecasue they are in good quality annd im really proud that I got that close. All the other pictures I took were too blurry and not very good and these are the best ones.

Fonts

These are the fonts that I have selected from Dafon.com, I am now going to be calling it Rock star. The reason in this choice is because it's simple, it advertise what music is mentioned in the magazine and doesn't drag on like "Hell! that's a lot of music.
Instead I am now thinking that will be my little caption such as Kerrang! having "Life is loud. The problem is I don't know if I want to design it in a basic text, my chosen font or something completely different.
So far from I looked at these were my favourite Because they seem similar to Kerrang! and that's what I want mind to be like. I think I will try my other names to see what they look like.

At the moment my 2 favourite would have to be the second image, and the last font. Once you zoom in you can understand why.
It goes along with the whole broken text, like its been smashed up and shows the loudness of the music.like the first one is a bit too basic and reminds me off paramore's logo .
It would be good it I could edit so that I can make it into different colours again just experimenting so I will try and give that a go.

Interview pictures

Pictures

These are the pictures I took of my friend Matt (The one holding the guitar) and My boyfriend Dom.
The reason I chose these two in my pictures is because they have a great relationship with each other, and are always doing the most random of things.
However I was recommended that these images should be used as an interview section and not the front cover. For my front cover I was told to get the boys so that they were purposely posing, and that I should set it that it has a better atmosphere. This being because the images I took look like the boys were in the middle of creating a studio album.

This was the first I took, I was thinking of having a single shot of just Matt and Dom's guitar. To improve this I can change it so it becomes black and white giving it an old fashioned look. I find this image could have been useful for a front cover because of the clear background and then way Mat is positioned near the middle giving me space to write my sub headings.












I don't think this image will work because it seems to blurry and not in focus. It doesn't help that Mat isn't looking and Dom has no idea what is going on.
Even for a interview page I don't think it shows a high standard of what I want.








I think this image will work nicely. Being because it shows Mat hard at work for their CD. The way the light from the flash of my camera has given it a better standard. I think if I was to add this picture I think the small caption would be "Men at work Mat Barton working hard" or something like that.













This image would have been useful to use, if Dom was actually looking at camera. I think I will have too add something like this into the magazine otherwise its just going to end up pictures of Matt while I'm talking about his no existent band mate.















This image can be seen as humours or as aggression, I see it as humor because I know when this was take by me it was meant as a joke. If I was to add this picture then I think to make it seem like a joke I will put a funny caption.














This picture is not the best. I suppose if I was only interviewing Matt. How ever I don't think it will work so well because he isn't looking at the camera.


















This is defiantly going to be put into the magazine because its shows them having fun in the creation of their new CD. It also gives me a chance to discus the stress or problems they have had in creating it I could even mention a near split situation. I suppose I could use that threat put onto the cover so that it draws more readers.













This picture can only be good it showed more of Matt and that you could actually see their facial expressions. I think some of these pictures I may edit so that they are more eye catching and draws more people in.











This is the second part to the picture Where Dom is being silence by Matt. I more prefer this version and will consider using this in the contents page.