Making the first draft of my Music Magazine: CONTENTS PAGE

Evidencing Step by Step: (Screen shots)

First, I added the THIRD LINES and wrote in the word 'Contents'.

Second, I wrote in the first line of articles in the first left third with the
article titles in red and the article explanations in black.

Third,  I wrote in the second line of articles in the second middle third.

Fourth, I wrote in the third line of articles in the third right third.

Fifth, I added in the NAME of the magazine next to 'Contents' on both sides.

Sixth, I added in the portrait photograph.

Seventh, I placed and re-sized the photograph to fit in the correct place.

Eighth, I placed and resized the first landscape photo of Group 3
to fit in the correct place.

Ninth,  I placed and resized the second landscape photo of Group 4 
to fit in the correct place.

Tenth, I deleted the two 'Classic Ensemble' name's from beside
the 'Contents' as it started to look crowded. Then I added captions
to each of the photographs to link them to the articles.

Making the first draft of my Music Magazine: FRONT COVER

Evidencing Step by Step: (Screen shots)

First, I added in the name of the magazine that I had made previously.

Second, I wrote in the USP (Unique Selling Point).

Third, I wrote in the sub-articles.

Fourth, I added in the THIRDS LINES to help me establish where the place things.
I also added two other sub-articles and changed the colour of the article titles.

Fifth, I added in a picture of a BARCODE.

Sixth, I wrote in an INDUCEMENT, an ISSUE NUMBER, MONTH of RELEASE and PRICE.

Seventh, I wrote in the main article and Cover Line.

Eighth, I added the chosen Photograph for the front cover.

Ninth, I resized the photograph to fit the A4 Page.

Tenth, I moved the Photograph LAYER to the bottom, just above
the Background one.

Eleventh, I filled in the Name of the magazine a White colour,
in order for it to stand out.

Twelfth, I changed the font colours.

Thirteenth, I changed the rest of the font colours.

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD - Article DRAFT

                The Article:

I have chosen to do a Question and Answer (Q & A) interview with an interviewer and Group 1 (Anbu and Poppy). 

Group 1's Band Name: Synergy

Draft: 

“SACRIFICE IS NEVER EASY… OR IT IS NO TRUE SACRIFICE” ~ GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

With their Fifth Album and Tour around the corner, Synergy tells us more about their upcoming adventures that are planned for this year.

“Anbu, this is your fifth year together as Synergy. Where did it all start?”

ANBU: “It actually started at school. We had just started at the Sixth Form at St Mark’s in Harlow and we were two of a class of seven, who had taken the subject of Music at A Level. I played the Cello and Poppy played the Violin and we were the only Classical Musicians. It wasn’t until the second year when we actually started to perform together. We weren’t in any other classes together and we always worked independently in our Music classes.I don’t think it was our initial idea of how our lives were going to continue. I was planning on going to UNI to study Chemistry and Poppy was thinking about doing English Literature at UNI. I think that our passion for music and the fact that we had grown to become friends and then more, helped us to bond more, not just socially but musically as well. We went to UNI together and studied Music, as well as writing albums and doing tours around the country.”

“Poppy, your fifth album is called ‘Wicked Sins’. When did it come out and why this choice of name?”

POPPY: “It came out last month and it was the fastest selling album out of the five we have released. We decided that it would be appropriate to continue with the theme of our Fourth Album, ‘Death and all its Friends’ with our fifth album. Therefore, the title ‘Wicked Sins’ came along when most of our pieces had the word ‘Sin’ or ‘Sinner’ in it. A lot of our music is quite dark, twisted and includes a lot of dissonance and minor keys, but all of our music tells a story within it. So the piece: ‘Death and all its friends’ in the album has a story describing death and the other characters with different styles of playing.With me playing ‘Death’ on my violin and Anbu playing ‘Death’s’ friends on his cello.”

“Anbu, lots of your fans have tweeted in to ask questions. @GeoffMcCoy wanted to ask: ‘Do you ever use electronic stringed instruments as well as normal stringed instruments in your music?”

ANBU: “Yeah, we do use electronic stringed instruments as well. Both, Poppy and myself, love to use our normal, classic instruments as they are traditional and the sound is more authentic. However, I love playing my electric cello on stage, when we’re in an arena, like the O2 or Wembley. Although, when we perform in a Concert Hall like the Royal Albert Hall or a small theatre like the York Opera House we tend to use our normal instruments.”

“Poppy, @ViennaShepherd wanted to ask: ‘Do you plan on having your own TV show or going on I’m a Celebrity?’

POPPY: “Anbu always thinks it would be fun to go on I’m a Celebrity and it would be a great experience, but I don’t think I could cope with all the bugs and living in a jungle. A TV show on the other hand, would be a great thing that both of us would love. You never know, maybe next year we might make the small screen!”

“Anbu, apparently this is going to be your first worldwide tour?”

ANBU: “Yeah! Our first four album tours were just in the UK, which was mostly to do with the fact we were at UNI and trying to set up a business with opportunities for young people. But last year, when writing the ‘Wicked Sin’ we both decided it was time to go worldwide with our tour and see the world and our fans in other countries. In relation to on the Twitter questions earlier, we will be taking both our normal and electric instruments with us on our World Tour. The tickets go on sale next month."

“Poppy, tell us the gossip about you and the Film Industry?”

POPPY: “Well. We love watching films and we’ve always been talking about writing music for a film and it finally happened when Hans Zimmer met with us and we talked about a new Action-Adventure-War film that was starting to be scripted. Hans Zimmer talked to us about writing for an Orchestra rather than music with Violin, Cello and electronic instruments. Together, we wrote the whole musical score for the film and it is being released very soon worldwide. The film is called ‘True Sacrifice’. This was such an amazing experience for Anbu and I. A lot of the music had the same kind of atmosphere as from Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbour, The Pacific and Band of Brothers, which are some of our favourite film music pieces. The theme of war, sacrifice, loss and passion is included in our music in our albums. The film is about how a group of special forces soldiers and a group of military intelligence that have to put aside their differences to stop the enemy’s threat. It’s like when Stannis in Game of Thrones talks about true sacrifice, which may be a weird reference but it always comes to mind when people ask about quotes about true sacrifice, I think it is a beautiful quote with a real sense of what true sacrifice is. He said: ‘Sacrifice is never easy… Or it is no true sacrifice’”

(Pulled out quotes)

“TICKETS GO ON SALE NEXT MONTH” ~ Anbu

“YOU NEVER KNOW, MAYBE NEXT YEAR WE MIGHT MAKE THE SMALL SCREEN” ~ Poppy

Album Covers Processes, Mind map of possible songs on 5th Album and EVIDENCE OF USING BRYCE SOFTWARE

BAND NAME: SYNERGY

I have decided that along the top of the second page of the double page spread there will be images of the Main Group's five album covers. In order to make the album covers, I need to take some photographs and then edit them with photoshop to add in the writing (Band name and Album name)and effects to make them look like album covers.

SHOT LIST:

This is a screen grab of the Shot list. This has some ideas of what the photographs will look like, shot type, angle type, frame type, orientation, models and the locations. They may not be the same as the actual final chosen photographs - They are just IDEAS.

Shot List for the Album Covers

Album Covers:

In each of the HAIKU DECK presentations, I will go through the photoshoot explaining why I didn't choose the photographs (but one) for the album cover in the notes section and then after I will go through the process of photoshopping the photographs to make the final design of the album covers. The final design after all this will be under the presentation on the blog below.

ALBUM 1: Not Hiding Any More

ALBUM COVER 1: Not Hiding Any More - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

ALBUM 2: Honour of the Assassin

Album 2: Honour of the Assassin - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

ALBUM 3: Planets Revisited

The background will be made by ME using the software BRYCE. There will be a separate presentation showing how I made it and evidence of me making it.

Album 3: Planets Revisted - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;

BRYCE 

ALBUM 4: Death and all its Friends

Album 4: Death and All its Friends - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;

ALBUM 5: Wicked Sins

Album 5: Wicked Sin - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;

Possible Songs on the Fifth Album:

These songs MAY be a list found on the Double Page Spread as the group talks about their album in the Question and Answer Interview. This comes from the software: COGGLE, where I made my Mind Map of Possible song name ideas for the 5th album "Wicked Sins". 

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions...

Choosing the Photographs to use:

When choosing the photographs to include in my magazine, I had to make some tough decisions. In the Photo Shoot Blogs, I explained why I did or didn't choose the photographs whether it was a voice memo, a video or notes that can be seen with the presentation itself. Here are the photographs that will appear in my magazine, in order of which page they will be on and captions underneath to show the group and who's who.

CHOSEN PHOTOGRAPHS:

Collage of the Chosen Photographs

Front Cover:

This is the portrait photograph that will appear as the main photograph of the front cover.

Contents Page:

This is the portrait photograph that will appear on the left side of the page. 

Group 2 (Left to Right) Stuart - Clarinettist and Mason - Flutist

This is the first landscape photograph that will appear on the right side of the page. 

Group 3 (Left to Right) Shannon F - Singer, Matt - Singer, Sam - Singer and Shannon P - Singer

  

This is the second landscape photograph that will appear on the right side of the page underneath the first landscape photograph. 

Group 4 (Left to Right) Lael - Clarinettist, Maddy - Singer, Sarah - Singer and Blaine - Flutist

Either Group 3 or 4's photograph will be photoshopped to add in a another background. This background will be a photograph that I will take in the near future - After my first drafts.

Double Page Spread:

This is the portrait photograph that will appear on the right side of the double page spread. I will cut Anbu out of the photo and have him looking like he is leaning up against the edge of the page. 

This is the portrait photograph that will appear on the left side of the double page spread. I will cut Poppy out of the photo and have her looking like she is leaning up against the edge of the page. 

PHOTOSHOOT 4: Contents Page (Group 4 - BLAINE, LAEL, MADDY and SARAH)

Blaine: FLUTIST, Maddy: SINGER, Lael: CLARINETTIST and Sarah: SINGER

Photos:

Reasoning for choosing the other photographs:

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Reasoning for not choosing the other photographs:

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Evidence:

Here, I am taking photographs.

Here, I am making sure Lael is holding the Clarinet correctly.

Here, I am taking photographs.

Here, I am taking photographs.

Here, I am positioning everyone.

PHOTOSHOOT 3: Contents Page (Group 3 - MATT, SHANNON P, SHANNON F AND SAM)

Shannon P: SINGER, Shannon F: SINGER, Matt: SINGER and Sam: SINGER

Photoshoot:

Reasoning for choosing the other photographs:

http://www.voki.com/site/pickupscid=12619575&width=575&height=323&chsm=93ff01398473b921ac4e32b23394dbe8

Reasoning for not choosing the other photographs:

http://www.voki.com/site/pickupscid=12619635&width=575&height=323&chsm=b6680f72272b10b9c28fe4ccdd8719ea

Evidence: 

Here, I am positioning everyone.

Here, I am taking photos from a low angle.

Here, I am moving Shannon P and Shannon F forward into position.

Here, I am taking photographs.

Here, I am taking photographs.

Here, I am taking photographs.

Here, I am taking photographs from different angles.

Here, I am taking photographs.

Here, I am making sure everyone is in the right positions.