Draft Magazine Article

The Chiquitos

The Chiquitos are a brand rock band that has just released their debut album ‘Complexity’. They planned to release the album in late April but due to the recent success of their debut single ‘This Is Now’ they are releasing it at the end of this month. The Chiquitos consists of Will Stanway and Declan Challoner they said “we had been friends for years and have similar musical interests so decided we to form the chiquitos”. The chiquitos are originally from the city of Leicester and they started out playing small gigs in local pubs and bars around Leicester. Their success began when they started recording demos and uploading them to websites such as sound cloud and youtube.

In an interview with the chiquitos this is what we asked:

compared to your musical influences and the style of music you perform would you say they were similar? 

I would say the type of music we write and perform is similar to our musical influences such as Greenday and the clash as we like to use styles and ideas from our influences when we are writing our songs. Thinks like the guitar tones and arrangements of our songs have also been stlyed around our musical influences and what we listen to.

What would you say was the idea/Story behind the album ‘Complexity’?

I would say our album complexity isn’t really based on a story we kind of just started writing songs for fun and it just hit off from there, In the album we just wrote songs about situations we were in and things we were going through like songs about troubles, life and love.

what are your feelings towards releasing the album early?

I was very keen to release the album early as it allows us to gain more publicity and to gain a bigger fan base. it will also give the album more of a chance to spread among the people over media like the internet and TV, I find this will benefit us as we are going on tour at the end of the year.

What does it mean to you to have been signed by virgin records?

At first we started sending our demo to record companies and also uploading our music to sites like youtube, sound cloud and social networking sites, we didn’t really think we would hear anything back from them. So i would say we’re surprised we are where we are now and we are extremely please to be working with virgin records and i am very happy with the album we have produced with them.

What would you say are the chiquitos plans for the future in life and career?

We will continue writing songs and will hopefully be releasing more albums and we are looking forward to touring the world later this year as none of us have done anything like this before so it will be an amazing experience and we are currently talking about releasing a live album of the tour. But to be honest i don't really like to talk to much about the future as is unpredictable we’re kind of just taking everyday as it comes.

What would you say to potential fans who may be interested in your music?

I would ask them to look us up on the internet and take a listen to some of our tracks we are on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter and we are always trying to increase our ever growing fan club on our website. We believe we our a breath of fresh air to this genre of music and we hope that you will enjoy it for those of you who haven't already heard of us.

Magazine 3 Front cover, 3 Contents Page and 3 Double Page Spread Designs

Moodboard

Media Moodboard

Magazine name

I have decided to call my magazine decibel as i think this makes the magazine sound loud and aggressive and i think my target market would be attracted to this name.

the band article ideas/plan - double page spread

In My Article I will include:
The Chiquitos are a New and Upcoming Band
I'll write about there history and what music they're into I will also have pictures Surrounding the article
I will write about there debut album
I will write about how they met etc.

Planning

possible Locations:

• Out side against a wall maybe in a alleyway 
• Inside with white back ground possibly painted wall

Picture ideas:

• Good lighting - bright (to show there facial expressions)
• Well dressed 
• The band shows attitude
• Little - No Scenery
• Whole body shots 
• Fits the whole band on the front-cover 
• photo-shoot dates 11-12 february?

Artist/Band Profiles

Band name: The Chiquitos
Genre: Rock/Alternative
Influences: Green-day, The Ramones, blink 182, linkin park
record label: virgin records

Magazine Name

i have decided to name my magazine decibel as it relates to sound and is loud bod and can be related to teens as the target market.

25 word Pitch feedback analysis

school magazine front cover

AS Media Foundation portfolio G321 Schedule 2012

Album covers

these are album covers of the types of band and style i want to include in my magazine

I like this album cover because of the font and the graffiti style.

I like the colour scheme of this album cover.

I like the title and the artwork in this album cover.

i like the space theme of this album it shows how the red hot chilli peppers have changed through time.

I like how basic this album cover is.

I like the fonts used in this album cover

Analysis

 I like the colour scheme and i would consider using it in my own magazine. I think the the black and white images taking up most of the double page spread is a good idea as it grabs the readers attention and keeps the reader entertained. In the paragraphs they are laid out like a news paper in columns and the first word has the first letter in a different colour to the text and is noticeably bigger this is used to capture the readers attention I would consider using a technique like this in my magazine. The title in this double page spread is a quote but the important part has been put in a different colour so that the reader automatically goes to read that part then the rest of the quote later.

 I like the layout of this and how the image fills up one whole page and that the title is kind of a words cut out of newspaper effect this captures the readers attention as each letter is a different size of font. the image in this article breaks the rules a bit as her face is positioned right at the top of the page and her body is in the middle of the page this is used to show the pose she's doing. The text in this is small and and is laid out in columns this is to make it easy to read.

 I like the font used in the title in this and how it sets a grungy tone to the double page spread. the image in this double page spread fills up the whole of one page this is to show the teenagers actions to the guy in a rabbit costume. the text in this is laid out in paragraphs typically for a magazine article. positioned at the bottom the page are images related to the article this gives the reader more information about what there reading about.

I like the layout of this contents page and how everything seperate from each other and spaced apart this make it easy for the reader to take in and navigate the contents page. the title in this is in a banner along the top of the contents page with the logo and the date, issue number included in it as well. this contents page has an image to give the reader a preview of whats inside this magazine and in the images caption it has the page number of the article and who is its about. The contents page is split in to section which is separated by small thin lines.

 I like the presentation in this contents page and how the layout is very basic they have split the text into categories so the reader can take it in easily, the images are of peoples upper bodies and they include the articles page number in the bottom corner of the images. I also like how there are images next to the articles page numbers to give the readers a preview as to what they're going to read. the title in this magazine is in a clear sans serif font highlighted in black this contrasts and makes the it easy for the reader to read.

 I like the use of the images in this contents page but i think there are to many of them and that the contents page is a bit crammed and hard to consume the information. i like the title on this contents page and how it contrasts with the rest of the page. I also like the contents pages colour scheme of yellow black and white.

I like the title on this front cover and the font used. I think the layout in this magazine is to crammed and cluttered and theres a lot of information to take in. i like the colour scheme of yellow, red and white this adds a grungy tone to the magazines appearance and i think it represents its content swell as a teenage music magazine. this magazine uses the F layout to present its title and text. the image in this magazine is positioned so you can only see the persons face and the attention is focussed on his eyes.

I like the layout of this front cover although it may seem a little cluttered everything is reasonably spaced out and the information is easy to take in. The text in this magazine pretty much contrasts with the background image and the colour scheme for the page is red white and black. the images on this front cover are relatively small and all represent a magazine article or something inside the magazine. i like the way the text "30 seconds to mars" is presented it grabs the readers attention.

I like the way the image is placed over the title it shows that the image is more important than the name of the magazine and that the magazine is recognised without having to give away the full title. I also think the colour scheme of black, white and blue is good and represents the contents of the magazine as the text reads "the king blues" and its presented in blue i find it ironic. I like the way the images presented down the side give away some of the magazines contents.