Double Page Spread From Fuse (Redone)

I changed spelling mistakes, the heading, the facts box and the size of the columns in order to make my page better presented however I think more will need to be changed as I don't feel fully satisfied with it yet, I will engage in group conversation to find out what my peers think.

Contents Page For Fuse (Redone)

To improve my contents page I changed the page number size, this allowed it to have less importance which was good, I also added 2009 onto the sub heading in the masthead.

I think my contents looks professional and I think I'm overall happy about it, and probably wont change much on it.

Front Cover Of Fuse (Redone)

To improve my front cover I made my masthead bigger, added a box and slanted a heading, and added less bands into the cover line. I changed the sides of the bar code.

I done all of these because I looked at a few music magazines, and they all had these factors which my front cover did not.. so I improved and I think this looks quite professional now.

Article For Double Page Spread (1st Draft)

2008, Alaskan Daydreams’ hit; ‘Monde stupéfiant’ dreamt about the spoils of cars, hunters, scientists, money, drugs and sex, and how they each displayed the disgusting world we live in today, it talked about what would be an amazing world. Written while the bands Ruby was still in college whilst band mate Taylor was suffering from depression, the two of their minds created the amazing number one hit which then topped the indie charts of America and UK. The success of that song and its assistant debut album; “Fallen Leaves” put that dream of peace on earth within their reach, they could get their points across, and just keep dreaming. The title of the follow-up is: “The Clouds Above Are Signalling” is due out mid-summer, “the title ties into exactly what I believe, the blackness of the clouds indicate dirt, suffering… let that be gone!” says Taylor Vanwenessy, who is currently nursing a dying bird. “Its like the world around us is being told, and not listening, congrats guys, hurry up and realize, money means nothing.”

And as such, Alaskan Daydreams are now poised to throw another spanner in the works, special guest Marko Dandicroft sums up The Clouds Above Are Signaling with: “No hits, no singles… nothing like the last album.” Indeed rather than an attempt to duplicate the formula of its predecessor (a chart topper), both claim that The Clouds Above Are Signalling steers far closer to the sound of their live show. This they assume may be an issue for some. “A lot of people came to our gigs assuming they were going to get electronic, freaky pop and were disappointed to see an acoustic band,” shrugs Ruby. “Then they heard the music we were playing and thought there was seriously something up with us.”

Legend has it that The Clouds Above Are Signalling has been a tester project from the very start. In November last year Alaskan Daydreams took their two-man band to one of their parents house’s in Canada, where they set up a small working space/studio and got cracking, their plan was to record everything live, but the group soon found their makeshift studio wasn’t up to the task as they only managed to write the lyrics for 4 songs. Ruby, at least got to indulge in an old hobby, surfing, their most recent songs have been described as having a surf rock kind of feel to them.

After finishing the songs, the influences became clear, as the title track is related to the early 80’s English rock band which state “Oh, There is a light that never goes out” this represents never giving up, Taylors deceased brother Romero had a high fascination for The Smiths/Morrissey therefore the band decided they would take a lot of inspiration from The Smiths to create some odd tracks for there upcoming album using their own experiences mixed with Morrissey’s experiences in the UK, this meant travelling. “Before we started traveling I never cared about my appearance,” admits Taylor. “But when your in Britain, people just shove it down your throat,” She pauses. “Look at me… I have a song about touring, a song about changing... This is going to be a terrible album.

Well who knows who the band will please, that’s not whet they are about but if they plan on winning the best album of the year award again they will need to up their game, more from the Alaskan Daydreams in next months issue, find out how their travelling went, and The Clouds Above Are Signalling is coming along.

Double Page Spread From Fuse (1st draft)

I think my Double page spread looks ok, I think the layout is well presented however the article on the page could have been slightly more interesting- Again, I will be asking my peers and teacher what i could change to improve my magazine.

Contents Page For Fuse (1st draft)

I think my contents page worked well, and it is one of my favourite pages I have done. However I will gain critical analysis from the class and my teacher in order to improve anything I can.

Front Cover Of Fuse (1st draft)

I think my front cover is simple, but I feel there is something missing, I am going to change around some fonts, and ask some peers whether they think that anything is missing, in order to help me make it better.

Double page Spread Article

uncomplete.

Band

Name: Alaskan Daydreams; they are from Alaska and they are spiritual which is where the Daydream part links in.

Individual Names: Ruby D and Taylor Vanwenessy

Interests: Mystical creatures, natural, eco friendly, spiritual, hippy

Influences: Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Jack Johnson, Newton Faulkner, Jose Gonzalez

Genre Of Music: Indie/Alternative/Acoustic

What They Feel Strongly About: World Cleanliness (eco friendly people)

Idol: Newton Faulkner

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This has helped me think about what kind of things I will write about in my article.

The Article For My Double Page Spread

I have decided that I shall combine two of my potential ideas into one, New album review and revealed secrets of the band.

I shall write about what they think of their newest album, what a few others think of their album. I shall then reveal secrets of the making of the album to give the audience a little insight into the band.

I am going to do this by firstly making up an album for my band, deciding what my band are like etc. And for the revealed secrets I will make the band out to be just like average people who are talented, using things such like they still practise in their bedrooms and things.

The next thing I will do will be an "about the band" thing, this will help me decide what I need to make sure is clear.

Edited Images

For this image I cropped out one of the band members, just using one, I then blurred out the background, added a greenish tinge to the picture, and then added a spot light from the back of the girls head. This is so that it looks like a live event. My aim was to create an image that made my band member look as though she was playing in front of a live audience, i used the lighting and the green tinge to give this effect. I think this worked reasonably well.

Edited Images

For these two images, I hardly edited anything, this was because these images were being used to show the band inside and out, this meant that showing them naturally was the best way forward. The only thing I edited was red eye, and the spot removal tool to remove a few pieces of blue tack that was visible on the bedroom wall (the right image).

Edited Images

I really like this image, I used a cartoon effect on Photoshop. This was to make the image look surreal and innovative. I Thought about editing out the background as like the cover image but then I decided upon keeping it, this was because it added a natural yet slightly grungy feel to the image, I thought this was useful being as that's how I had planned my band to be like- alternative.

Edited Images

For this image, I completely cut out the background and turned it to white, this allowed me to show a clear, contrasting image. After doing this I then used a tool on Photoshop to add a spot light, I made it so the corners of the images had shadow. I think this image is simple and I will be using it as my front cover image.

Edited Images

I have now edited the images I will be using.

The first one I edited was this image of the two girls laying on the snow. I didn't change much of this image because the colours contrasted as it was, and i liked this so I didn't change much. However, I upped the contrast and sharpened them a little bit, Ialso used a spot removal tool on Photoshop to make the girls faces look spotless, this was so my image looked fresh and crisp. I think this image is quite suttle and I think that it is one of my favourite images that I will use in my magazine.

My Origional Images That I Will Use For My Magazine

I took a lot of images of my 'band' and I then picked 6 out of them, to make sure I had the best images I could get I put my camera on a setting called "burst", this allowed my camera to take a lot of shots quickly/in one go, therefore I could choose which ones I thought were successful and which ones I didn't think were good enough.

All of these Images shown are the ones that I will be using for my magazine, I am going to edit them so that they look like magazine ones should. some I will edit out the backgrounds, others I will try different effects to change the images a little. I will definitely use red eye removeal to get rid of the red eyes in some of the images.

To take my images I used a digital camera, I took some shots in the snow, I done this because the snow added a nice feel and a good light to some of the images, it looks as though it gives the models a healthy glow, and the images look fresh and crisp.

Some of these images are studio shots, whereas a fair few of them are candid shots.