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Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Fonts for Mag
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Draft of cover page PPT
These are draft images on a style/ set out for my music mag cover page. It follows the theme of rock but also has its own unique house style.
Photoshoot
I chose these photo’s because of the
connotations they hold relating to rock whether they be dominant of challenging
representations.
Poses: The poses chosen are specific
towards the topic of rock, whether it’d be classic or new age, There is always
a way to show its representation. For example, In the photo with Tom Cruise and
Russell Brand, They show a dominant representative connotation of rock through
the hand gesture. Its common upon the rock genre.
As a response to this, I have asked my
models to use the same hand gestures in the hopes it would show the audience
the representation intended.
Gorillaz research for my music mag
Gorillaz are an English virtual band created in
1998 by Damon Albarn and
Jamie Hewlett. This band is fronted by four animated members: 2D (lead vocals,
keyboard, and melodica), Murdoc Niccals
(bass guitar and drum machine), Noodle (guitar, keyboard, and backing vocals)
and Russel
Hobbs (drums and percussion). These members are completely fictional and are
not personas of any "real life" musicians involved in the project. Their
fictional universe is explored through the band's website and music videos, as
well as a number of other media, such as short cartoons. The music is a
collaboration between various musicians, with Albarn being the only permanent musical
contributor. Their style is an amalgamation of genres, with influences
including rock, alternative, Britpop, trip hop, hip hop, electronica, indie, dub, reggae
and pop.
The band's 2001 debut album Gorillaz sold
over seven million copies and earned them an entry in the Guinness Book of
World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize in
2001, but the nomination was later withdrawn at the band's request. Their
second studio album, Demon Days, released in 2005, went five times platinum in
the UK, double
platinum in the United States, earned five Grammy Award nominations for 2006 and
won one of them in the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals category. The
band has won numerous other awards, including two MTV Video Music Awards, an
NME Award, three MTV Europe Music Awards, and have been nominated for nine Brit
Awards. The
combined sales of the Gorillaz and
Demon Days albums had exceeded 15 million by 2007. The band's third studio album, Plastic
Beach, was released in March 2010. Their latest album, The Fall, was released
in December 2010 as a free download for fan club members, then in April 2011 as
a physical release.
So how does this reate to
my subject matter of Rock magazine? I wish to use the idea of animation in my
magazine to create a unique house style. The way I will do it will be to gather
photos I have taken, And re-draw them in an animated style to make my mag interestin g,
different and appealing to the eye. My aim is not only to attract the rockers,
But to attract those out there who love anime too! Making a manga edition would
be interesting and fun for me, But will also relate to my exemplar band choice
of the gorillaz
which use animation to put fourth their music.
Plans for photo-shoot
These are my plans for my photoshoot that I will be taking for my music magazine/
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