Week beginning April 24th

This week my final version of my music magazine was due in on the Tuesday which was the 24th. So on Monday I was finishing of the last couple of small bits my magazine that i had not done. I then handed it in on Tuesday. After Tuesday I have been doing the planning for my evaluation.I'm going to be doing the DVD extras, in this i will be answering seven questions about my magazine which are:

1.In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. How does your media product represent particular social group?

3. What kind of Media institution might distribute your media product, why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address for your media product?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Starting Evaluation

The evaluation is worth 20 marks out of the 100 points for the coursework as a whole.

There were four different ways that I could evaluate my work and my magazine, these were:

• A blog post. 
• PowerPoint, which is then filmed from performing it. 
• A podcast, which is a video of you talking about your magazine.
• DVD extras, which is a range of videos and still pictures which must be creative and interesting as well as answering the questions. 

I will be making my evaluation through doing the DVD extras, I choice this one as I think that this is the best way to show all of the things that need to be shown to answer the questions. Like the way that I can show my magazine well and also other things like screen shots as well. I may include an 'how to' guide. Show target audience. 

Some of the things that I have to try and do to get a good mark is to understand the issues around my audience, institution, technology, and convention in relation to product. Ability to refer to the choices made and outcome. Understanding of their development from preliminary to full task. Ability to communicate. Show ICT skills.

Final Version Finished and Hand In

Today is the hand in for the final version of the music magazine. I finished my magazine yesterday, in my lesson. I completed the contents page,as this was the only page that was not finished. I then saved my three documents as JPEG's. So I have finished my Front Cover, Contents Page and also my Double Page Spread. Here they are:

Front Cover:

Contents Page:

Double Page Spread:

Week beginning the 16th April

This week I rewrote my article and added it to my double page spread, I worked on my article on Thursday and also today Friday. I then I added the article on Friday. On Tuesday and Wednesday I was working on my layout of my front cover and also my contents page. The final version of all three of my pages is due in on Tuesday next week.

Article rewrite

I have just finished adding my article into my double page spread, I have rewrote it and also just spend time choosing the font and so on. So here is my rewrite of my article:

Danielle Evans is a singer songwriter that sings indie style music. Danielle first came on the music scene when her first CD came out.  Danielle now back with her second album. We sat down with Danielle and had a chat to her about her up-coming second CD and her tour, to find out some more.

Danielle you’ve have just finished making your second CD, when is it released?

My new CD will be released on the 31st March. It’s called untitled.

Your CD has a bit of an odd name, what the story behind the CD name?

The CD is called Untitled as I could not think of a name for the CD so when people asked me the name of my upcoming CD I said that it was untitled, as in it had no name. So then went I started to try and think of a name for the CD I could think of one. So then I ended up calling it untitled.

The first single from your new CD is out now, what is it called?

The first song that I have released of my new CD Untitled is called American Dream it all about me moving to America and what it is like living there. It’s a song that is very personal to me and this is one of my favourite songs of the CD.

What is different from your first and second CD is there a different sound to it?

My first CD was mainly just indie music but for my second CD has a bit of a different sound as untitled is made up or a mix of indie songs and also indie pop sounds. So my second CD does have a bit of a different feel to it.  A couple of my tracks have a bit of a rock feel to them.

Where can we get your new CD from?

You can buy my CD from iTunes, amazon, HMV any good music store or some larger supermarkets most places that sell CD’s. If you want to buy a digital version of my CD then you can get it from most websites that sell digital CD’s.

What are you doing now that the second CD is done?

I’m going to be doing my tour which starts on the 27th June. I really can’t wait to go on tour, I love performing my songs and seeing all of my fans. I feel that performing for my fans is like a thank you to them for making me a well know singer and songwriter.

Danielle how long is this tour?

This tour is going to be for eight months. It’s a bit longer than my last tour.

How long was your last tour?

My last tour was about six months which was two years ago now, but that tour was just a European tour.

When will the tickets go on sale?

The tour starts on the 27th June and tickets go on sales for all of the venues on the 1st April. You can get the tickets from my website which is www.danielleevans.com or you can also get them from the different venues of my tour. The tickets cost between £29 for standing and £20 for sitting. So you can have a choice of whether you want to be right next to the stage with the standing tickets. Or if you would like a seat and would not mind being further at the back.

Danielle where will you be going on the tour?

This tour will be a tour of both Europe and America. I will be starting the tour in America and them making my way to Europe. I will be playing forty five venues, twenty of these in America and the other thirty five in Europe.

When are you planning on getting back in the studio?

My tour is for eight months, and it start on the 27th June. So the tour will be ending around January 2013. So after a bit of a break from touring and my music I will properly be back in the studio and recording for my third album sometime in February/ March next year. I will be making my third album next year.

Will you be playing at any festivals this year?

Nope, I would love to but I’m on tour when most of the festivals are so I will not be playing any festivals this summer, but I hope that I can next year. I want to do a lot of the main festivals next year like T in the Park, T4 on the beach, Leeds and lots of others to make up for not doing any festivals this year.

Do you have a favorite album by another artist at the moment?

My favourite album at the moment by another artist is the album + by Ed Sheeran. I really love his album; I feel that it shows a lot of his emotion and also his life. I would love to have an album that has so much emotion and feelings.

Danielle would you like to do a song with Ed?

I would love to do a song with Ed; I think that we would have great fun. I’ve met Ed a couple of times before at music award shows and he seems really nice. My manager has been talking to his manager and there are trying to arrange for use to do a single together, but this will not be till sometime next year as I am on tour and so is Ed.

Something that we like to do here at Turn it up that is a bit different from other music magazines is when we interview anyone we ask them to bring their iPod and they tell us some of the things that are on their iPod.

What make of iPod to you have Danielle?

I have the really old original iPod classic, it really old but I love it. I have had it for years now and it’s still going strong.

What are some of the artists that you have on your iPod?

I have a very varied taste in music. I have Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, ACDC, Muse, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Guns and Roses, Icon.

You really do have a very varied mix of music that you like. So how is Icon?

Icon is a small not very well know band made up of two girls and one guy. Their music is similar to mine its indie pop. They will be my support act of this tour. I found them performing at a friend’s party, and I really liked them so I took them   number. So I asked them to be my supporting act on my tour. They have been trying to make it big for the last couple of years. So hopefully this could be there big brake.

Retake of photos

I retook my photos for all of the pages of my music magazine, as I was told by my target audience that the model that I had used was too young for the magazine and also did not fit the genre well. So I got a different model for my pictures and retook my photos. I took a lot of photos but these are the photos that I will be using in my magazine below. I have to have at least four photos in my magazine so I will be having one large photo on my front cover, two or three pictures on my contents page and one full page photo on the double page spread. I will also be using one of the photos that I have already taken on the contents page for another page. So here are the photos I am using:

This first one I will be using for mt front cover, I am going to change the background colour so that it is a lighter grey. There is also a white section above here head that should also be grey, so I will be making sure that I make this grey as well when I make the background a lighter grey colour. I may even make the whole of the background white but I will have to see which one looks better on the front cover of the magazine. 

 This photo I have used on the contents page. I have flipped the photo horizontal through so that she is look to the left.   

This photo is used on the double page spread I have used it on the right hand page. I have also flipped horizontal so that see is facing to the center fold of the double page spread as I feel that this looks better that   her facing away from the center.  

Here is the other picture that I used on my contents page:

Here are the original images before I edited them:

 

 

Deadlines coming up

The deadline for my music magazine the front cover, contents page and also the double page spread is next Tuesday which is the 24th April.

The Tuesday after that my blog then has to be finished and then I can not do any more work on it. This is due in on 1st May.

The week after that this the evaluation has to be done and handed in on Tuesday 8th May.