The first part of my double page spread creation was creating an article to feature. I planned to make up an article about a new group and their rise to fame. I just started by brainstorming ideas. I planned to say they had a summer tour coming up and give information on the lead-up to the tour from there start-up to there current life. I firstly drafted an article:
First draft:
Electronic group Fluid has officially announced their new European tour, beginning this summer. The tour will span 40 days in different venues across Europe. Once the tickets went on sale the main venues sold out within 3 hours and the rest of the venues were fully by Thursday night. Their new tour will include every song from their new album, which is out on the 25th of March. fluid started out remixing tracks from other artists with their own styles. Their first hit remix was a remix of the Plan B song ‘The Recluse’. The song received a view count of about 4 million and was featured on the first page of the YouTube music page, which generated more followers for their channel. After receiving a large following on YouTube they produced their first original track ‘Reality’. The track became an instant hit with the fans and eventually reached the uk top 40. The track peaked at number 6 and was a huge debut single for the group. Following its success Fluid began working on other sngs for their new album. Each new track has been featured on the groups YouTube page. They have released five tracks so far which have all been successful with one track reaching number one on the uk top 40. The track
‘Mercury is their most successful track so far which reached number one and stayed there for 2 weeks. The group announced that their debut album entitled ‘Motion’ will include 10 previously unknown tracks and the original five. Each of these 10 unknown songs will be released in singles over the 10 months after the albums release, starting on the 5th of May. Each following track will be released on the 5th day of each month until the last song is released on the 5th of March 2014. The group consists of three boys from south London: Ryan Williams, Dave Smith and Will Blake. They started to make money when some of their remixes were making money from iTunes downloads. Once they had made enough money from these remixes they decided to buy some professional equipment, which would allow them to mix faster and to produce higher quality music. The new software allowed for more manipulation of the audio and more control over the beats. We asked the group about why they started making music and Ryan Williams, the original creator of the group, said, “Music is where my heart is. It gets everyone up and jumping. Making the world dance is our goal”.
I got feedback on my first draft. The first criticism it received was about some spelling/grammar mistakes. I would fix these in my final draft now they had been pointed out to me. The second was about the length. I was told it was too short for an article. I needed more information. The final criticism was that the article could be compared to a 'wiki article'. I realise the article is fairly informative with little personal view. I used all this feedback and created a final draft.
Second draft:
Electronic group Fluid has officially announced their new European tour, beginning this summer. The tour will span 40 days in different venues across Europe. Once the tickets went on sale the main venues sold out within 3 hours and the rest of the venues were fully by Thursday night. Their new tour will include every song from their new album, which is out on the 25th of March. Fluid started out remixing tracks from other artists with their own styles. Their first hit remix was a remix of the Plan B song ‘The Recluse’. The song received a view count of about 4 million and was featured on the first page of the YouTube music page, which generated more followers for their channel. After receiving a large following on YouTube they produced their first original track ‘Reality’.The track became an instant hit with the fans and eventually reached the UK top 40. The track peaked at number 6 and was a huge debut single for the group. Following its success Fluid began working on other songs for their new album. Each new track has been featured on the groups YouTube page. They have released five tracks so far which have all been successful with one track reaching number one on the UK top 40. The track
‘Mercury is their most successful track so far which reached number one and stayed there for 2 weeks. The group announced that their debut album entitled ‘Motion’ will include 10 previously unknown tracks and the original five. Each of these 10 unknown songs will be released in singles over the 10 months after the albums release, starting on the 5th of May. Each following track will be released on the 5th day of each month until the last song is released on the 5th of March 2014. The group consists of three boys from south London: Ryan Williams, Dave Smith and Will Blake. They started to make money when some of their remixes were making money from iTunes downloads. However, this method of remixing meant they had to pay a percentage to the original songs artists as the songs included most of the original song content. Usually the song sounded fairly different and only the voice of the original artist remained. Once they had made enough money from these remixes they decided to buy some professional equipment, which would allow them to mix faster and to produce higher quality music. The new software allowed for more manipulation of the audio and more control over the beats. We asked the group about why they started making music and Ryan Williams, the original creator of the group, said, “Music is where my heart is. It gets everyone up and jumping. Making the world dance is our goal”. Fluid has proven greatness and hopefully their new songs will be just as good. We are hoping that Fluid will become even more successful as they are quickly
becoming our favourite group out there right now. If you haven’t listen to their music yet them you better do it right now. Seriously, right now.
I got much more positive feedback this time and I decided to use this as my final article. Next I had to start the actual double page spread creation.
Next I added in my article. I wanted to fill the whole second page. I chose a fairly large font for an article as I wanted it to be easy to read when I added a background. I also molded the text around the quote so it looked more natural and less blocky. At the bottom I added a small bordered section about another page of the magazine. This might convince someone to buy the magazine if the pick it up and read that one article. They would need to buy the magazine to enter the competition.
The final part of the creation was adding an image to the article to make it more appealing. I wanted to have a picture in the space I left and then have the picture slowly fade. However, I could not find out how to achieve this so I settled for my next plan. I decided to have the whole image faded in the background but put the body's of the models in full but at the parts where they covered the text it was hard to read the writing. I then decided just to make there heads in full and had the idea of giving them bigger heads than there body's. I felt the idea looked fairly funny and gave the idea that the group was fun too. It also follows the idea of 'Youth as fun' (Dick Hebdige).
Overall I think my article turned out fairly well and I managed to achieve a fairly professional looking magazine.
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