Photos for the interview

Now I went out.. and got another friend to actually pose for the photos.. now since my magazines themes were related to drum and bass/dubstep/garage I did a bit of thinking and thought about it simply as.. Where do I usually hear this music.. AT ITS BEST, now it'd usually be a club, but a few people i knew who listened to this music a lot more than I did said that even though its stereotypically rave music again from this those who I had asked and inquired about mis-en-scene all said to me "keep it original" and to be perfectly honest I strongly dislike conventions, since its so repetitive and on top of that there were few locations to shoot from.. So i got with my model and had a talk about where we should actually take the photos, and came to the conclusion.. of Bricky background and a park.. which was conventiently nearby allowing me to simply take the photos in the park, since the genre of music is always involving something "fresh" and new which is forever evolving and growing in popularity and even to mainstream success, reflecting on us as people growing up and learning in a place such as a park. :P

Interview uploads

These are the jpegs of my interviews so following up on the previous post, you'll be able to have a glance or a look at it. This interview was done pretty much over instant messaging, so to speak msn. But after reading through it a few times and thinking about how I would structure the interview, I felt that this itself is a good interview now, BUT it could be a lot better if shortened a bit more and possibly embedded so it wasnt so.. lets say.. "basic".

Potential frontpage photography.

Here are some of the photos which I took of my model for the magazine, unedited. The poses were pretty much inspired from the moodboard photos of LMFAO and the dress style of Chase & Status which allowed me to stretch in to a dress sense which almost touches indie as an initial look, but thanks to the research I did I can justify my reasons for touching other genres since my genres: dubstep & DnB(drum and bass) both go hand in hand to start with plus garage, and they all use the same instruments! So I dont see why they cant dress alike too, cause a shirt and skinny tie arent stereotypical.. unless it involves skinny jeans!
These were all the photos that I believe would be ideal for the frontpage, but even regardless of this, once actually completing the draft of the magazine itself, i'm planning to probably re-shoot this and hope that the camera doesnt die out after a few shots this time!

Here we go again..

I had troubles figuring out what to actually post after the questionnaire and then got caught up playing catch up with every single subject, unallowing me to allocate any time towards the blog in particular which is very very.. disappointing.
I began working on my interview page with the help of a friend, who quite essentially was the best person to go to for this particular part of the magazine, since he had a greater knowledge of the genre himself, and was the individual that got me into the genre quite frankly. So I managed to get this done along with photos for the frontpage where he himself is featured.. I figured that he deserved to be the pride and glory of the magazine for his efforts in helping me construct the magazine's interview. The structure of the interview itself was literally 6 questions with very extended answers which was quite unorthadox to what quite a few others were doing and I felt it wasnt used enough in magazines and preferred that to the simple q&a or faq style interviews. But when it actually came down to planning this interview I had to go through my trusty RWD magazine, which to be honest was my "bible" for interviews. Looking at Chase & Status's interview which was the most important one to in my opinion since they were infact artists who related to the genre, and their interviews aided me in understanding the point of view of the interviewer and the reaction to the interviewee which led to my extended interview for the interview. As the file itself is on word, unfortunately for YOU, you cant see it right now.. so just have a look when it's posted.

Questionnaire

I noticed I never posted the questionnaire I gave out while researching my reader profile.. sorry, here it is:

OK now back to the actual magazine mood board..

Right, I apologize to anyone reading this if the previous post sidetracked from what I was initially meant to be showing, but I felt it was worth the mention so.. I did.
Now, after quite a bit of research, I found it quite difficult to find a magazine that was dedicated to such genre's as this. Most likely since they're all quite underground genres of music, and over the years have begun becoming more mainstream and ever since I was introduced to this kind of music, I've been hooked. Now, the only magazine(s) I was able to find that were focused on such genres as Garage, Drum & Bass, Bassline etc. Was infact RWD (Rewind magazine), which luckily for me, I had a recent copy of. So by reading through it I came across a duo, who were well reknown for their works in this genre, None other than Chase & Status. Who had recieved recent mainstream success by working with R&B singer Rihanna on her album R-Rated, in which they produced a few tracks, and even helped with songwriting. But again, enough sidetracking.. heres the moodboard. Due to lack of artists of this genre on the covers of magazines, I was fortunate enough to have done the rap moodboard before, which will help me quite a lot when it comes down to it. As for this, it'd help me a bit when it comes to actually dressing up someone to pose for the front cover. So here it is:

Now i'd like to say from this, that I already knew there werent many magazines that involved these genres in more detail, but still, just by looking at how most of these artists were dressed, it was rather casual and not heavily based on designer clothing and to an extent rather ragtag and basic, compared to the colour co-ordinated guys on the covers of the rap magazines. Personally, I think since there isnt any magazine that focuses on these a lot, I suppose I have no template and no real standard to aim for when it comes to the front cover, but regardless just by looking at photos of the artists I'm sure I can simply step up to the task (for once) and reach a standard that i'm proud of and would atleast be following the example I'm using from the rap magazine covers, the BIGGEST difference between them? style of clothing. Simple as that, so it isnt all bad.

Moodboard (rap) & why the genre changed.

I'm quite disappointed at myself, at how late i've left to post some of these, but due to an unexpected incident involving the interview questions and my interviewee, my original genre (rap) had to be put aside for something which is very different in comparison and has led to the change of the magazine's target audience, which when looking at rap, tended to be around the ages of 13-24 from people I had asked, mainly outside college and a few individuals from it to keep my selected sample both fair, and not unbalanced between gender, considering my college is an mixed sixth form with a very low ratio of boys to girls, 1:35 approximately, hence not a very good sample to choose.

But before I actually show the changed moodboard, I'd like to show the initial one for rap music, seeing as i did put the effort in to look for it, so I'd like to show it, just for peace of mind.

Well I'd just like to say before I post the other moodboard, that the reason i've still posted something which is of almost practically NO relevance to garage, drum and bass etc. That either way just by looking at these magazine covers, I could tell that there were already elements of these covers that I wanted mine to have. After having a good look, I saw that there were some similiarities in the style of the covers. Typically they had a masthead top left, usually covered by the main photo.. which personally, I didnt like so much. BUT one I saw in particular that DEFINATELY caught my eye and I WILL, adapt into either my interview page, or into my front page or even contents page, but I'd really like to find some way to be able to use this. If you have a look at the "REMIX" magazine cover, their main heading isn't placed horizontally.. BUT horizontally. Now, I believe this is quite unconventional compared to the others, but either way whenever I look at the moodboard, THAT caught my eye. Now correct me if i'm wrong but, I think we all know that the front covers are MEANT to GRAB the READERS or ATTRACT new readers.. and that definately did.