Stand first: "I am just your average girl next door"
1. First of all, we want to thank you, Naj, for making BEATS the magazine of your choice to have an exclusive interview with! What does being in the music industry feel like to you?
(Laughs)... No problem guys, I should be thanking you for interviewing me! It’s all new to me, but I am enjoying every bit of it. It’s a little bit weird since I am just a normal girl following her dreams, but I am obviously not complaining; as you can see I am as happy as I can be!
2. It’s our pleasure! You have just released your new single, ‘Live It Up’, which we must say is absolutely great! It’s topping the charts ever so quickly; we want to know Naj who is your main musical inspirations behind these powerful yet energising songs? Who have you looked up to since the beginning?
Music was all around me since the beginning of my childhood really...my dad used to play the guitar so he was quite musical and I guess the most musical person in the family. Since he always used to play it I grew up considering him as my main inspiration, but I have to be honest...I went to a Christina Aguilera concert when I was about 12 and I could not take my eyes off the stage! That woman can hit some very high notes; I was literally mesmerised. It was magical and from that day on I promised myself that I will stand on stage with Christina Aguilera one day! She is an absolute inspiration to me! Her songs and her voice always have me going in all moods and every situation; she has a song for it!
3. We completely agree with you Naj. Your number one single has been released and we can’t wait to hear more music from you! So how is your album coming along?
Oh why thank you; don’t worry you’ll soon be hearing my album because it’s being released soon...very soon (laughs) I am not giving much away but it’s great; I actually love it and I am not trying to boast or anything like that but I am sincerely proud of myself. I have come this far to release an actual album which I had only dreamed of, it seems like everything is a dream and I’ll wake up any minute now and it’ll all be gone...but I really hope not.
4. Everyone knows and cannot deny that you have a powerful singing voice, BEATS wants to know when you first started singing?
I started singing from a very young age to be honest. I was always singing and dancing at home since I was surrounded by music and grew up to be part of it eventually...I didn’t think I would choose it as a career path but when I joined the choir in secondary school I really felt that I enjoyed it and it showed me that it connects to people in so many ways. From then on I dreamt of being a singer and look at me now, living the dream (laughs).
5. You grew up surrounded by music; does that mean you also play any instruments?
My dad had taught me how to play the guitar at an early age, so that would be the only instrument I know how to play properly along with basic percussions. I took piano lessons when I was in Primary School but gave up on that dream quite quickly; it is way too boring for me (laughs).
6. A lot of your fans have come in touch with us and want to know more about your personal life and if you have a boyfriend at the current time, what do you have to say?
At the moment I am a single Pringle and keeping my attention towards my career, I don’t want to get a boyfriend just yet since I don’t know how I could cope with so much. So I’ll start looking when the time is right and when my life adjusts to the hectic lifestyle! But you never know when love will knock on your door next (Winks).
7. Now what do you think the future holds for you?
Hopefully the future holds the best for me; I am just taking in and enjoying everything that’s happening around me! I am hoping to collaborate with more artists and I will be producing my second album by the end of next year. So yes a lot of things are going on and I can’t wait to show it all to the world!
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Images and Font
Masthead Font
Front Cover
Contents Page
Magazine Images
Front cover
Front Cover
The Marple Origins
Inked God
Contents Page
Rocketship Town
Double Spread Page
Birth of a Hero
Magazine Images
Front cover
Contents Page
Double Spread Page
Monday, 28 February 2011
Flat Plan Evaluation& Shot Plan
Shot Plan
Flat Plan Evaluation
Front Cover
Colour: I have chosen a bright and neutral colour scheme for my front cover as according to my market reasearch I did, the majority of people wanted such colours and prefered thesde on a front cover. The main colours I have used are Red, Black, Brown and Purple with a little bit of yellow for the button. I have used purple as little as possible only for the bleed on top of the front cover.
Masthead: The masthead of the front cover is called "Beats" it is coloured in a bronze brown colour which reflects on a mature audience that I will be targetting as well as the younger audience due to the font I have used.
Image: The main image on the front cover is of my model who will be posing in a mid shot, where you can only see her from the waist up. As most people prefer to see pictures on magazine I have decided to make it quite big.
Selling line: The selling line on top of my magazine front cover is "The UK's leading RnB magazine of 2011".This is to attract the reader to buy the magazine as the colour of the selling line stand out quite a bit.
Button: I have used Lady Gaga for the Button to attract the reader. I have placed the button on the left hand corner of the front cover so it does not mix with the rest of content on the front cover. Also as the button is coloured in bright colour, it makes it stand out and therefore more visible for the reader.
Contents Page
Colour: I have used the same colour colour scheme as on the front cover of the magazine, this is because it is conventional to use the same colours and layout so it is clear that both pages are from the same magazine. Also as I have researched the contents page and front cover of various magazines, I have discovered that most magazine contents page match their colour scheme to the front cover of the magazine.
Layout:I have used a simple layout which was inspired by the Rolling Stones magazine contents page. All the text is alligned on the right hand side of the page and the heading Contents is placed right on top of it. This is to make the reader look more at the image on the contents page which will attract them to read more on it as most of the contents page is ignored.
Image: I have taken the inspiration from the Rolling Stones magazine contents page and decided to use only one image and its bacjkground fro the contents page and place the text on top it so it's more effective and also as images are mostly preffered accoridng to my market research the image helps this and also attracts the reader.
Flat Plan Evaluation
Front Cover
Colour: I have chosen a bright and neutral colour scheme for my front cover as according to my market reasearch I did, the majority of people wanted such colours and prefered thesde on a front cover. The main colours I have used are Red, Black, Brown and Purple with a little bit of yellow for the button. I have used purple as little as possible only for the bleed on top of the front cover.
Masthead: The masthead of the front cover is called "Beats" it is coloured in a bronze brown colour which reflects on a mature audience that I will be targetting as well as the younger audience due to the font I have used.
Image: The main image on the front cover is of my model who will be posing in a mid shot, where you can only see her from the waist up. As most people prefer to see pictures on magazine I have decided to make it quite big.
Selling line: The selling line on top of my magazine front cover is "The UK's leading RnB magazine of 2011".This is to attract the reader to buy the magazine as the colour of the selling line stand out quite a bit.
Button: I have used Lady Gaga for the Button to attract the reader. I have placed the button on the left hand corner of the front cover so it does not mix with the rest of content on the front cover. Also as the button is coloured in bright colour, it makes it stand out and therefore more visible for the reader.
Contents Page
Colour: I have used the same colour colour scheme as on the front cover of the magazine, this is because it is conventional to use the same colours and layout so it is clear that both pages are from the same magazine. Also as I have researched the contents page and front cover of various magazines, I have discovered that most magazine contents page match their colour scheme to the front cover of the magazine.
Layout:I have used a simple layout which was inspired by the Rolling Stones magazine contents page. All the text is alligned on the right hand side of the page and the heading Contents is placed right on top of it. This is to make the reader look more at the image on the contents page which will attract them to read more on it as most of the contents page is ignored.
Image: I have taken the inspiration from the Rolling Stones magazine contents page and decided to use only one image and its bacjkground fro the contents page and place the text on top it so it's more effective and also as images are mostly preffered accoridng to my market research the image helps this and also attracts the reader.
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Music Magazine Front Cover Analysis
Below is the presentation where I have analysed various magazine front covers(:
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Reader Profile
From the data I have collected through my Market Research of creating a Questionnaire and asking a set of people and set of suitable questions to help me understand the task of producing a music magazine and enable me to develop the magazine design to match my target audience.
Brenda is a 17 year old girl who studies in her first year of A levels. She is a studious girls who likes to spend her time reading books and listening to music. Her A-level subjects include Art, Media studies and English. She is known as fashionably popular and even though her love for books makes her seem like a slightly boring person, it also develops her mental ability of using her studious ways to create the way she lives, she pours out her feelings as musical lyrics. Music plays a big part in her life, Brenda sings with passion and her role models consist of Christina Aguilera and Rihana. She cannot live without her Ipod and never leaves her house without it. While reading, she makes sure to turn on her Ipod as it helps her read and concentrate therefore it develops her creative side as well. She has many friends that just like her love to listen to music, together they love attending concerts that inspire her to one day just be on that stage to perform like role models.
Even though she dreams of the being in the music industry, realistically she wants to become a Music Journalist, because she wants to do something to with music in her later career but also put her academic talent in action therefore becoming a Music Journalist is the best career path for her.
Brenda is a 17 year old girl who studies in her first year of A levels. She is a studious girls who likes to spend her time reading books and listening to music. Her A-level subjects include Art, Media studies and English. She is known as fashionably popular and even though her love for books makes her seem like a slightly boring person, it also develops her mental ability of using her studious ways to create the way she lives, she pours out her feelings as musical lyrics. Music plays a big part in her life, Brenda sings with passion and her role models consist of Christina Aguilera and Rihana. She cannot live without her Ipod and never leaves her house without it. While reading, she makes sure to turn on her Ipod as it helps her read and concentrate therefore it develops her creative side as well. She has many friends that just like her love to listen to music, together they love attending concerts that inspire her to one day just be on that stage to perform like role models.
Even though she dreams of the being in the music industry, realistically she wants to become a Music Journalist, because she wants to do something to with music in her later career but also put her academic talent in action therefore becoming a Music Journalist is the best career path for her.
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