Rhys Jenkins LCASCW

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My name is Rhys Jenkins and this is my AS Media music magazine blog

Evaluation, Question 7, Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task) what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

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Evaluation 7

Evaluation Question 6, What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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What have you learned about

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Question 5, How did you attract/address your audience?

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How Did You Attract

Evaluation, Question 4

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Evaluation, Question three

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Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation, Question two

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Evaluation question 2 , how does your media product represent different social groups? on Prezi

Evaluation, Question one

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In Many Ways My Magazine

Second draft of double page spread

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Second draft of contents page

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second draft of front cover

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feedback sheet

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Feedback Sheet

Magazine marking

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Magazine Marking

Peer Review

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Rupert Radley
http://rupertradleylcascw.blogspot.com/

Framing a shot including and excluding elements as appropriate

Level 3- shots have been framed well and all unnecessary elements have been excluded.

Using a variety of shot distances as appropriate

level 3-two different shot types have been used, the shots that are featured on the front cover and the contents page work really well and are appropriate for the task, a larger amount of shot types would work well.

Shooting material appropriate to the task set.

level 4- All material that has been used is appropriate for the task and works well with the genre.

Selecting the mise-en-scene including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting.

Level 3- colour works well together and three colour palette has been followed in the entire magazine.
The figures used in the magazine work well, and suit the genre of the magazine.
The guitar that has been used incorporates well into the magazine.

Manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation , including cropping and resizing.

Level 3- All pictures have been manipulated and also most of his pictures have been re sized and also the images all have there background taken out with the magic lasso

Accurately using language and register

Language works well and is in a casual register which matches his genre and target market.

Appropriately integrating illustration and text.

Level 3-Text and illustration mesh together well but some images stand as a bit out of place.

Showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design.

Level 4- good understanding of the conventions of how a magazine is put together,though there is a blank space in between is main picture in his contents page.

Showing awareness of the need for a variety in fonts and sizes.

level 3-a variety of fonts has been used where appropriate.

Using ICTappropriate for the task

Level 3- use of ICT is acceptable.

Representation of a social group in my magazine

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The content in my magazine is ideally aimed at the younger adult, from about age 15 to 25. These people will listen to modern rock bands on a regular basis and could be able to play an instrument, so the part of the magazine that helps the person find a good guitar or effects pedal wouldn't be lost on them. The social group will listen to a range of different artists and will also be willing to listen to new and upcoming bands to increase the amount of bands they like. My magazine features quite heavily on bands and not so much on solo artists as there are not that many solo artists in my genre. The reader will be into the whole 'band' scene and would have a large amount of interest in reading how many bands became famous or got a break and got a record deal. The clothing they would tend to wear would be quite casual like a pairs of jeans and a hoodie, sometimes the clothing style would border on grunge but still be fairly up date and relaxed.

1st draft double page spread

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1st draft contents page

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1st Draft Front cover

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double page spread

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contents page mock ups

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Cover mockups

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Article

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Double page spread content.

Rift: there are so many up and coming bands that come and go, its hard to find one good enough that can rise above the best and make it through the first part of a bands life, many don’t make it but there are a small number that do break through the ‘mediocre’ level and amaze us with there first album, band such as Primera Angostura a three man band from Leicester who have become more than just a cover and have just released there first album ‘You can go a lot further with a smile on your face and a gun in your hand’ which also has there single ‘In spite of it all’ on. I thought that the bands over all sound was great, the vocals mashed really well together with the guitar line and the bass always came in at the right time and picked the whole mood of the album up, the drums were consistently impressive and never boring or out of place.

A taster of the Band

Rift: So who plays what in the band and why?

Sebastian Faulkner: Well I play lead guitar and vocals mainly because I was the only one who was bothered to pick up a difficult instrument, and then to make that worse they made me song.

Jimmy Goodwin: well you say that but you were the only that could really sing so face it your lead singer, anyway I’m the bassist.

Karl Embrey: ell I guess that makes me the drummer then, you could say I’m the drummer because I’m the only one who can keep a rhythm.

Rift: sounds like you guys get a long quite well, where did you all meet up?

SF: well Karl and me were already trying to start a band in high school but it’s not exactly easy when you have only two members.

KE: Yeh we weren’t exactly finding it easy to find a bassist but just when we started to think about giving up we saw this kid taking out a bass and me and Seb were both like grab him he’s ours.

Rift: sounds a bit violent, Jimmy did you have any intention of joining a band or was it peer pressure?

JG: hah yeh you could say that, no I really wanted to be in a band to and a good job to because these two weirdo’s approached me and asked if I wanted to start a band project with them, and I immediately thought yeh, I so do.

Rift: So you guys have been friends for ages then?

KE: Yeh pretty much after that day we were as you say as thick as thieves.

Rift: How did start off playing, did you a particular direction you wanted to go in?

SF: well to start off with we all had a slightly different taste off music, I was more Foo fighters and Red hot chilli peppers where as Jimmy was more into classic rock like ACDC and Karl was really into old metal like Sabbath, so We kind of combined all of our music tastes and ended p with this kind off twisted rock sound.

JG: yeh we all thought about different ideas of how to start but we found it hard when we were all playing different genres to each other.

Rift: Sounds like a bit of a ruff start?

KE: You could say that yeh, but we finally pulled ourselves together and started covering some other bands songs to start off with, to test the water If you will, and that seemed to be going fine so we thought why can’t we make some songs up ourselves, so that’s the first thing we got onto.

Rift: what was the product of your first idea?

SF: well we kinda came up with a track that had the guitar line similar to all Along The Watch Tower and the drums from in The Air Tonight, with a crazy bass line, it didn’t really work because we were all trying to take the limelight for ourselves, so we had to work out the main parts for different songs, like say this song would be based around the drums or this song will follow the singing.

JG: Yeh they were pretty messed up times with trying to find our ‘sound’ and everything while still trying to do school work.

Rift where were you really discovered by a record company?

KE: well we had finally got a slot at Glastonbudget and we played our first set, which was a cover of The Best Of you by Foo Fighters and two of our own songs, and then after we had played them this guy approached us and asked us if we were interested in a contract with a record company, of course we were all ecstatic but we weren’t quite there yet, he said we had to get him a recording of every song we had done and get it to him on disk, this was fine, so we did and a week later we were sent a letter by The Brass Knuckles record company that asked us If we could come in to the studio and record a single, so the company could release it into the world of music and see if it got any feedback.

Rift: well did it?

JG: well yeh or we wouldn’t be here right now would we?

Rift; True true but what was the next step after that?

Rift: Wow impressive stuff, one final question where did you get the idea for your band name Primera angostura?

JG: wow this age old question, it seems wrong if no one asks you this, we were a bit stuck with names to start with as every band seems to be, and we wanted a name that meant something to all of us, because we didn’t want to end up like The Who, so we thought of something that had struck all of our lives, and they first thing we could think of was our friend James Dixon, he was on holiday in Spain and he went cliff diving and he dove where the water was to shallow and unfortunately cracked his head open and died, we didn’t want to forget him so we named the band after the place he went cliff diving The straight of Magellan, the old Spanish name for this was Primera Angostura, and we all agreed that this would be the name for the band, for James.

Rift: Thanks for sharing that with us, Primera Angostura, a promising start for a upcoming band, let’s hope they make it big.

Band profile.

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Because I have chosen to do my magazine on modern rock I ideally need to have a band on the front of my magazine, I thought of having a three piece band like muse or Biffy clyro would be a good idea because I like the layout of each band and its a bit simpler to use less people in a band so it makes it easier for me to find people that I can take pictures of.
So I thought that having a lead guitarist/lead singer, a drummer and a bassist would be the perfect amount of people for a band, I thought this because bands like Biffy clyro and Muse only have three people but they have been very successful.

Test Shots

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I quite liked this picture of Ryan behind the drums, I was limited with people when taking these mock up pictures, but this picture works quite well it involves the drums but the main focus is still on Ryan, for my real photo's I will have a band picture.

This is another shot of Ryan but I took it from a different angle so I could see what it would look like if he was playing the drums while I took the photo.

This photo of Rupert doesn't really work for the genre I'm doing, but I wanted to take some shots of him playing guitar so the picture would have a more natural look to it rather than him posing.

For this photo I asked Rupert to look in a certain direction and not straight at the camera, this shot kind of works but I think it was a very good pose for Rupert to be doing as he doesn't look very comfortable.

I took this picture because I thought It would be quite a good background for me to take pictures against because it reflects my genre quite well.

This Picture I quite liked because of the difference in height between Ryan and Jordan, the shot works quite well to because the shot wasn't planned so they are quite relaxed.

Change to magazine music genre

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As of now i have now changed the genre of music that my magazine will be about, this is because it has been suggested to me that grunge is dead and has now become a very niche market, so if I continued with my plans for a grunge magazine I would find it very hard to make it accessible to a larger audience.
So I have decided to do my magazine on Modern rock now with has a much larger audience, and the good thing about the genre is that it has had quite a lot of influence from grunge because after Kurt Cobain committed suicide Nirvana split up and the band went there separate ways, like for instance Dave grohl who used to drum for Nirvana went on to start a very popular band called Foo Fighters, they are more rock than grunge and I can hear in some of there songs slight grunge influences, this is also true for the second band he helped to found, which was Them Crooked vultures this was founded with John Paul Jones (best known as the bassist for Led Zeppelin) and Josh Homme ( better known for being the lead man in the band Queens Of The stone Age).
Modern rock also called Alternative rock differs from the original rock genre who had bands like ACDC and Led zeppelin, I'm trying to appeal to a younger audience so more recent bands that have come out Like Biffy Clyro and Foo Fighters, these bands feature less on guitar solo's and overly structured songs that have One Guitarist , one singer, One bassist and One drummer and maybe a Keyboard player, More recent rock bands have lost the structure of the oringinal rock bands and rock songs and have evolved with the times to create a new more up to date genre appeals to my target market.

Sex On Fire

Biffy Clyro - That Golden Rule