Research and Planning: Completed magazine

Research and Planning: Magazine Progress

Research and Planning: Magazine Progress

Research and Planning: Contents photographs

Research and Planning: Cover so far

Research & Planning: Double Page Spread Image Edit

Research and Planning: Cover and Double page spread photos

Cover Photos

Double Page Spread Photos

Research and Planning: College Magazine Progression

Research and Planning: Cover so far

This is my cover with my album cover on it, i think the fact that it's red really helps it fit in well with my cover.

Research and Planning: Album Cover Art

This is my final album cover however I will square it off on my cover

Research and Planning: Ablum artwork for cover

 This is my favourite out of the three images however I feel it would be better to use a different colour in order for it to tie in with my colour scheme and genre as it will be on the front cover.

I plan to use this image for my album cover art but it still needs some editing in order for it to look its best.

Research and Planning: Album Cover Art research

For my front cover and possibly double page spread, I plan to add an area in the reviews section for an album thats only just been released, these covers will give me some ideas as to what i should include in my own album art.  

This image sticks to a colour scheme of just white and orange, this is clever however due to one of Ed Sheeran's most obvious traits being his bright ginger hair.  I should use a colour scheme in my album art.

For both of these images the name of the band  is larger than the name of the album, i should keep this in mind when I create my album cover.

In conclusion, I need to produce an album cover that has: a colour scheme, a logo/photograph and the name of the band larger and also positioned above the name of the album.

Research and Planning: Cover so far

This is my progress on my front cover so far, I still need to add a band photographs as the main subject along with the bands name in an appropriate font.

Research and Planning: Photograph set 1 - Edited

 I decided that, for my double page spread story, I would use a black and white image with the subject slightly to the left so that I could use the background of the image as a background for my text.  For this image I increased the contrast and also tweaked the levels and curves to give my photograph the desired look.

 The subject in this image was slightly out of focus therefore, to help combat this, I used the blur tool in Photoshop to blur out the background slightly, making my subject stand out more.  I have also tweaked the black and red curves to give the image a darker tinge to it.

For this image I used the smudge tool on the background, working from the centre outwards, and once again slightly changed the curves and levels.  This would be a good photograph for an album cover

I changed the subjects jacket to black as i thought this may suit my magazines genre a little better, i left a slight grey line around the outside of the subject to help him stand out from the background.

Research and Planning: Photograph set 1 - Unedited

 

Research and Planning: Double Page Spread Story

Crimson Bypass' main man Ollie Black is still coming to grips with his bands success over the past twelve months as the band storms the music industry and already has a tour planned for the summer of 2012.
      "We were together for two years before anything even looked like it was going to happen,  we were 15 when we formed and just did it for fun, didn't think we'd get anywhere with it and just jammed in my garage."  
     The mancunian duo took the charts by storm with the track "Planetary" which has fluctuated in the top three for over five weeks and was written by CB's very own Kane Kings, who is also shocked by the sudden rise to fame.  "The fact that this time last year we were practising in Ollie's garage with only our school mates knowing who we were and now everywhere we go, the hordes of people gathered outside the entrance is phenomenal."  
     When asked about their rise to fame, Kane, brought out the camera used to film the duo's first youtube appearance together. "We put this on youtube last year," playing the short clip of the mancunian jamming together, even though the quality wasn't the best, the song grips you straight away making you want to listen to the entire song. "We only put a small chunk of the song on to see partly how people liked it and their reaction to it, but it was mostly it was to avoid social suicide amongst the lads at school, didn't want to embarrass ourselves to much did we." However, the "small chunk" of the song was actually a big kickstart to the boys' high demand for music "Every now and again we'd post part of a new song, or the rest of another and sometimes even some solo pieces.  Soon enough we were doing small gigs all over manchester, each time the crowds getting bigger and wilder."
     "We've been compared with Rizzle Kicks, and the fact we're catching them up in terms of popularity is fantastic for us as they were our main inspiration to form as a duo but we still love our combination of rock and electronic music.  It slots together so well and the fans love it so why not?" says Ollie, "Our demand is so high right now we may as well make the most of it as we could be nobody again in a couple of days".
     We then came onto the subject of the negative impact the formation of the duo has had on the boys, "Don't even get me started on the haters" says Kane, "I don't understand how people can literally hate you and post awful things about you all over the internet just because they don't like the music you make.  If you don't like it fair enough but don't hate us for it when you don't even know us."  Ollie, however, had a different view on things,  "I say let 'em hate, it's getting word out about us online and people read about us every day, whether it's positive or negative it's still publicity and we're getting more and more popular day after day.  It's not as if we're ever going to meet these people anyway so let 'em put what they wanna put."  As you can see the two clearly have different views on their "haters" yet their immense fan base keeps them producing their unique style of music.

Research and Planning: Contents Page so far

This is my magazine so far. I plan to add at least two photos that suit my short story which will be placed in the centre of the page, along with a band index down the left hand column

Research and Planning: Shot List

This is my shot list for my magazine, however this may be added to/changed over time.