Photo-shoot Planning

Genre- The genre I am doing for my music magazine is alternative rock. To achieve

this I will need to think about action, costume, and models attitude, make up, hair, props and the shot type.

                 

In my images I will be representing a female, in their late teens.

The costume will be something simple, a black t-shirt and black skinny                jeans/trousers. They will have dark eye make up (eye shadow and eyeliner) with backcombed/scruffy hair. In the photos they will be standing normally with a relaxed posture looing into the lens of the camera for the main cover issue whereas in the other images I will be taking they will be doing different facial expressions.  Potential props that are being considered is a guitar.

I will be using a wide variety of camera shots including, close up, medium close up, medium shot and long shot. By doing this it creates a range of Ideas I could use to fit in appropriate places on the magazine.

Potential issues include:

·      My model may not show up due to illness therefore I need to arrange another model before hand just in case this does happen.

·      If I forget a piece of equipment such as props then I will have to borrow or find something else to work around it, something that will create the same effect.

Hand Drawn Flat Plan: Front cover

Here I have drawn out my flat plans, before I did this I needed to use a pre existing music magazines front cover as a template, for my template I chose a front cover from kerrang music magazine because I liked the composition of it, my music magazine is the same genre as kerrang so I thought by choosing a magazine the same genre it would make a clear link between the genre and the appearance of my music magazine, the music magazine I want to produce and the template I have used both use a guitar as one of the props in the main image, I thought this is relevant because it will help me where to put the coversine's and the layering of everything I will use to create my music magazine. I have also included the pre existing music magazines front cover that I used as a template below my flat plan.

Hand Drawn Flat Plans: Contents page

Here I have drawn out my flat plans, before I did this I needed to use a pre existing magazines content page as a template, for my template I chose a contents page from NME magazine because I liked the composition of it and my music magazine is the same genre as NME music magazine so I thought by choosing a magazine of the same genre it would make a clear link between the genre and the appearance of my music magazine. I have also included the pre existing music magazines contents page I used as a template below my flat plan.

Hand Drawn Flat Plans: Double page spread

Here I have hand drawn out my flat plans, before I did this I needed to use a pre existing magazine double page spread as a template. I have also added the pre existing magazine I used as a template   below my flat plan.

Research Into the history of Alternative Rock music

HISTORY OF ALTERNATIVE ROCK MUSIC

Alternative rock music is really a name given to rock music that didn't fit any other genre. However, the technical meaning is usually any rock music that descended from punk rock. A lot of rock music has been classified as alternative rock music even though some of these did not exactly fit the meaning.Alternative rock music became popular in the 1990's but the history or alternative rock music goes back farther than that. Before Nirvana brought alternative rock music to the mainstream audience, the music genre had been gaining popularity with the college crowds and music underground.

In the 1980's REM was making their start in alternative rock music. College radio stations gave most of their airtime. This is where their loyal fan base started. However, their commercial success started at about the time that alternative started to really become popular in the 1990's.

Popularity of alternative rock music came about after the grunge period. Grunge was a type of alternative rock music that denounced commercialism. This movement started in Seattle, Washington and soon took the world by storm. This was ironic since it was this type of music that helped to create the commercial success for alternative rock music. Bands such as Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Alternative Rock music also made a big splash in Britain where punk rock was more popular. In fact, Alternative rock music entered the mainstream earlier in Britain than it did in the United States. This gave alternative bands a broader venue even before the popularity of alternative music in the United States.

During the height of success for alternative rock music, many record companies handed out the name to bands that fit the requirements loosely at best. This was done in hopes that the label of alternative would help sales. However, looking back one can see that some of this music was more pop than alternative.

Audience Research

 

Here I have included my findings from the audience research questionnaires.

 

 

 

Promotion of music in politics

The promotion of music is politics. It's way more complicated than what people think. You have to worry about image, artistic direction, demographic considerations, marketing, censorship, courting radio and music networks through legal or non-legal means, and paying close attention to trends.

Artists have to be not just musicians, but also lawyers, accountants and managers. If not they're likely to get taken advantage of by corrupt corporate executives who mess them out of royalties and rights to their music because they were ignorant to the business side of the industry. Not to mention being stuck with a terrible unfair contract that more or less makes them slaves to the label. Young upcoming artists are more prone to becoming victims of these types of shady record deals. Rappers of the late 80's and early 90's were also victims of these deals.

Examples of politics in the music industry are when Kelly Clarkson’s album My December was a victim of a trope. She publicly battled with BMG honcho Clive Davis over creative control of her album, and then suffered a vengeful smear campaign by her own label. My December only sold 800,000 copies, which was a disappointment compared to her previous success. She canceled her tour and fired her management after the My December debacle.