Week 15
This week I spent time finishing my Interview questions; last week I spoke about the interview questions in my production diary and on monday I uploaded them to my blog. During the week, which I uploaded today, I updated the questions with answers as the beginning plan for my double-page spread. These are the questions and answers I will be using and have chosen to do it as a informal interview with the artist, as it fits the conventions of my chosen magazine genre. I have also clearly labelled the interviewer and the artist clearly to separate them so they can be identified. Next week I plan to do a full draft of my double-page spread, adding in pictures and the text, as well as deciding my chosen headline. I also plan to use conventions, such as quoting the artist, including images of the artist and showing clear information on the artist.
Friday, 27 December 2013
Interview and Questions update
Interview questions and answers:
1. Well Emilia, to start I wanted to congratulate you on your first Brit Award you got awarded last month, you've really come a long way since we first met you at the beginning of your career 10 months ago.
Thank you! I was so surprised when I got nominated; let alone actually winning the award from my category! There are so many amazing artists and there were so many new singers in my category, so I was very surprised I won! This is another opportunity to thank my fans, my management, my family and friends, and obviously thanking FTM for supporting me in my journey as an artist.
2. We love supporting you, as you have amazing talent! How have you been able to deal with being in the spotlight, are you getting used to being in the public eye and your new-found fame?
At times it becomes very difficult as I've gone from being this unknown girl, to this artist that is being followed by paparazzi and fans, all shouting my name, it’s strange. Seeing my faces in magazines and newspapers when I walk into my normal corner shop (laughs) I can’t by the paper any more, I feel too embarrassed! At the end of the day, I chose this career as its something I love and want to spend my life doing, there are always consequences that come with the road you choose. I will learn to live with it!
3. How do you find time to get away from it all, what do you do in your spare time?
I like to mainly visit my family when I do eventually find the time, other than that, especially if I'm away, like on tour, I like to spend my spare time staying in bed watching my box sets that I love! I love to just curl up on the sofa in bed with pizza or a cup of tea and watch no stop TV. What comes with this career, is little free time to yourself, your main free time your awarded is when you’re sick or writing new music in the studio.
4. That’s nice…. I hear you've just announced your first UK Arena tour! Tell us what your plans are for it! Anything up your sleeve?
Well you know me I have plenty up my sleeve all the time! We've only just started plans for the tour next year, so you’re just going to have to buy a front row ticket and come watch me preform! (Laughs) Maybe you’ll be lucky enough to come backstage, you never know! (Still laughing)
5. (Laughs) Come on! Tell us one little thing that will happen in your tour? Any special appearance?
There may be, there may not be, I don’t know what is planned most of the time myself, I just do what they tell me! I have to focus on singing and learning the dance steps, although, I'm lucky enough to have some say in the outfits I wear! But like I said, you’re just going to have to come along.
6. Ooh…. Alright I’ll allow you just this once not to spill! So your new single ‘Turn up’ is coming out on the 24th of February. Only one week away, I'm so excited!!
Yes! I'm so excited too; this is different from most of my usual songs, as it is more up-tempo with a party feel to it. I like to change my style now and again to not get too old and be predictable. Its one of my new songs on the upcoming album I am planning…
7. Well you just spilled a secret there (laughs) a new album you say?
Oops! I wasn't meant to reveal just yet, kind of just slipped out! Hope I don’t get into trouble for telling (worried looking)! Well now I've told you, I might just continue (laughs) but yes, I'm in the process of making my new album, there are plenty more songs and styles you’ll be excited to listen to. I am trying to make it different from my usual music and previous album, however I still like to stick to the style that made me what I am today. Clearly my fans enjoy it!
8. Well I will of course, as well as your big fan base will definitely be looking forward to hear your new stuff!
Yes, thank you very much, I’ll also be excited to release it, as well as be seeing you and my fans at my tour next year! Remember tickets go on sell in MAY!!
Fire round:
1. Your most embarrassing moment?
Had to be when I fell on stage, not only that but my fans heard me swear through the microphone (going red)!
2. Have you met anyone that made you star struck?
I have met many people that made me star struck, the main one I remember was when I met Stevie Wonder! He’s a legend!
3. The strangest present given by a fan?
Well there was this one time I was opening my fan mail to find a bunch of hair in an envelope with a note saying I love you, now you can be with me 24/7! Quite crept out actually! Thanks to whomever for the originality though (laughs).
4. Your favourite artist right now?
I am loving ‘The 1975’ band, there music is amazing with such a unique style. Their voices are amazing!
Monday, 23 December 2013
Interview Questions
Interview questions:
1. Well Emilia, to start I wanted to congratulate you on your first Brit Award you got awarded last month, you’ve really come a long way since we first met you at the beginning of your career 10 months ago.
2. How have you been able to deal with being in the spotlight, are you getting used to being in the public eye and your newfound fame?
3. How do you find time to get away from it all, what do you do in your spare time?
4. That’s nice…. I hear you’ve just announced your first UK Arena tour! Tell us what your plans are for it! Anything up your sleeve?
5. Come on! Tell us one little thing that will happen in your tour? Any special appearance?
6. Oohh…. Alright I’ll allow you just this once not to spill! So your new single ‘Turn up’ is coming out on the 24th of February. Only one week away, I’m so excited!!
7. Well you just spilled a secret there (laughs) a new album you say?
8. Well I will of course, as well as your big fan base will definitely be looking forward to hear your new stuff!
Fire round:
1. Your most embarrassing moment?
2. Have you met anyone that made you star struck?
3. The strangest present given by a fan?
4. Your favourite artist right now?
1. Well Emilia, to start I wanted to congratulate you on your first Brit Award you got awarded last month, you’ve really come a long way since we first met you at the beginning of your career 10 months ago.
2. How have you been able to deal with being in the spotlight, are you getting used to being in the public eye and your newfound fame?
3. How do you find time to get away from it all, what do you do in your spare time?
4. That’s nice…. I hear you’ve just announced your first UK Arena tour! Tell us what your plans are for it! Anything up your sleeve?
5. Come on! Tell us one little thing that will happen in your tour? Any special appearance?
6. Oohh…. Alright I’ll allow you just this once not to spill! So your new single ‘Turn up’ is coming out on the 24th of February. Only one week away, I’m so excited!!
7. Well you just spilled a secret there (laughs) a new album you say?
8. Well I will of course, as well as your big fan base will definitely be looking forward to hear your new stuff!
Fire round:
1. Your most embarrassing moment?
2. Have you met anyone that made you star struck?
3. The strangest present given by a fan?
4. Your favourite artist right now?
Friday, 20 December 2013
Production Diary
Week 14
This week I continued with my research and planning sections of my coursework, where I planned the content I am including in my magazine. I have been trying to take a step back and look at how I want m magazine to look and at my final production as a whole, i've focused on my variety of flatplans for the front cover, contents page and double-page spread, to give me a clearer perspective. In addition, I have also written my interview questions for my double-page spread, which I will be uploading up to the blog as soon as possible, as well as writing a full plan of my double-page spread. Over the next two weeks I plan to get my complete images I am using in the magazine, as well as to complete my research and planning tasks.
This week I continued with my research and planning sections of my coursework, where I planned the content I am including in my magazine. I have been trying to take a step back and look at how I want m magazine to look and at my final production as a whole, i've focused on my variety of flatplans for the front cover, contents page and double-page spread, to give me a clearer perspective. In addition, I have also written my interview questions for my double-page spread, which I will be uploading up to the blog as soon as possible, as well as writing a full plan of my double-page spread. Over the next two weeks I plan to get my complete images I am using in the magazine, as well as to complete my research and planning tasks.
Friday, 13 December 2013
Production Diary
Week 13
This week I spent the rest of my week again looking back on my plan for my final production, as well as conducting more research. I have done this because I have found it quite difficult to work out what I actually want my final production to look like, for example, where I want to place all the conventions of the magazine and trying to make it uniform and professional. This is why I thought going back to my research and planning of my coursework will benefit me more and make my final production better.
I hope to finish all my research and planning in the next week or two and start to go back to my final production and start making my magazine, as well as take more pictures to meet the criteria necessary for the magazine and making the images suitable.
This week I spent the rest of my week again looking back on my plan for my final production, as well as conducting more research. I have done this because I have found it quite difficult to work out what I actually want my final production to look like, for example, where I want to place all the conventions of the magazine and trying to make it uniform and professional. This is why I thought going back to my research and planning of my coursework will benefit me more and make my final production better.
I hope to finish all my research and planning in the next week or two and start to go back to my final production and start making my magazine, as well as take more pictures to meet the criteria necessary for the magazine and making the images suitable.
Friday, 6 December 2013
Double-page Spread Research
After focusing and researching general magazine double-page spreads, I decided to look into music magazine double-page spreads, as it would be more useful considering my magazine is based around music. In addition, I thought it would be more useful to look at double-page spreads in my genre I am doing for my final production, POP Music.
Interview with artist (Singer - Justin Bieber):
Conventions: Similarly to the research I done with general double-page spreads I looked at and the one I posted on my blog, this interview had all the same conventions.
The title of the article stands out to the audience "Girls give me a headache!" with a colour theme used to fit with the theme of the magazine. This is used throughout the double-page spread and makes it look well organised. The magazine also presents images of the model on the page, a larger image that covers the whole second page and a smaller one fitted into the text.
They also show clearly how the interviewer and the person getting interviewed (Justin Bieber) is separated to understand who is talking. They do this by paragraphing them and using different colours, dependant on who is talking, for example, the interviewer has red font.
From looking at the music magazine interview, gives me a clearer idea of what I would like to do for my double-page spread and how I plan to lay it out.
Interview with artist (Singer - Justin Bieber):
The title of the article stands out to the audience "Girls give me a headache!" with a colour theme used to fit with the theme of the magazine. This is used throughout the double-page spread and makes it look well organised. The magazine also presents images of the model on the page, a larger image that covers the whole second page and a smaller one fitted into the text.
They also show clearly how the interviewer and the person getting interviewed (Justin Bieber) is separated to understand who is talking. They do this by paragraphing them and using different colours, dependant on who is talking, for example, the interviewer has red font.
From looking at the music magazine interview, gives me a clearer idea of what I would like to do for my double-page spread and how I plan to lay it out.
Single Page spread research
Before I can think about how I'm going to do my double-page spread for my final production, as well as what it will be about, I decided to carry out research on general celebrity interviews and music magazine interviews. This would be a better range of research, as I am able to compare easily and see how I can adapt my interview for the purpose and demographics.
Interview with Celebrity (Actor - Tom Felton):
Conventions: The interview in the image shows general conventions of an article in a magazine. It has a title with the person's name to tell the readers what the page is about and who it is about. As well as having an image of the celebrity (on the right) to attract the audience and fans of the person. The magazine has also included a quote next to the image of the model to try to get the audience interested in the magazine.
The interview: The layout of the article is presented in the form of an interview, this interest people to read it more as its separated text and is a written conversation. This makes the magazine seem more believable as fans of Tom Felton will know more about him and his personality, which would want them to read the interview, as well as it looks more interested than an article written about interviewing the celebrity with little quotes of what they actually said.
The page shows conventions of what an interview in a magazine should look like with the questions and answers separated clearly. In addition, from looking at the image, you can see that the questions the interviewee asked are highlighted, while the answers are in normal text, which doesn't stand out as much. The answers don't need to stand out as much because by highlighting the questions and making them stand out to the audience, it is more likely that the audience will read the questions then become interested in the answers, so they read more.
The magazine interview also shows separated parts of the interview with the model, in a different form, for example, the question in the bright pink square it a more amusing question the target demographics would find. They place this in the pink box to attract the audience, as well as make the page different so the audience doesn't get bored.
Interview with Celebrity (Actor - Tom Felton):
Conventions: The interview in the image shows general conventions of an article in a magazine. It has a title with the person's name to tell the readers what the page is about and who it is about. As well as having an image of the celebrity (on the right) to attract the audience and fans of the person. The magazine has also included a quote next to the image of the model to try to get the audience interested in the magazine. The interview: The layout of the article is presented in the form of an interview, this interest people to read it more as its separated text and is a written conversation. This makes the magazine seem more believable as fans of Tom Felton will know more about him and his personality, which would want them to read the interview, as well as it looks more interested than an article written about interviewing the celebrity with little quotes of what they actually said.
The page shows conventions of what an interview in a magazine should look like with the questions and answers separated clearly. In addition, from looking at the image, you can see that the questions the interviewee asked are highlighted, while the answers are in normal text, which doesn't stand out as much. The answers don't need to stand out as much because by highlighting the questions and making them stand out to the audience, it is more likely that the audience will read the questions then become interested in the answers, so they read more.
The magazine interview also shows separated parts of the interview with the model, in a different form, for example, the question in the bright pink square it a more amusing question the target demographics would find. They place this in the pink box to attract the audience, as well as make the page different so the audience doesn't get bored.
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