My Reasons for Choosing my Brief

I chose to do this brief as I originally did this brief before. I could have changed to a different brief like a video, but as I am already familiar with the software for this brief I am just going to stick with this one.
I wanted to do this brief as I like the idea of being able to take my own pictures and uploading them onto my magazine.
By sticking with the same brief I believe I will be able to save time as I already know what I need to do and what to do to improve it.

Research On My Band

The band I am using for my project are a group of boys who are good friends.
They started their band in

Picking My Band

Thursday 11th Febraury 2010:

After changing from a girl group to a boy band, it is quite easy to pick a boy band.

I am going to base my major task on 'The Olivers' which is a band formed of my friends - 'Andrew, Myles, Zac and Ben'.

The genre of their band is very similar to 'The Kings of Leon' and 'Snow Patrol'. Firstly I took a picture of the boys all together to have as the main picture within my double page spread on the magazine:

I took this picture under a bridge and then uploaded it onto the computer.

Further Planning

Thursday 11th February 2010:

I decided to look at more than one band on the 'NME' website.

I looked at the 'Snow Patrol' as this band is quite similar to the band that I will be doing my major task on:

Planning for my Major Task.

Monday 1st February 2010:
As I am keeping my minor task the same I can now start to move onto my major task. Music magazine.

As I am re doing my major task, I wanted to start planning it first and plan it properly. So to begin with I looked at the NME website to get some ideas as to how they review artists today.

I am changing from a girl group to a boy band, I am doing this as I think there will be more context I can include about a boy band compared to a girl group.

The first band that I looked at on the NME website was Kings Of Leon.




Kings of Leon






I looked at the latest review on this band and it was about them winning a Grammy award for the record of the year - 'Use Somebody'. I am looking at these reviews of bands so I know what content to include within my music magazine.

I then went on to research songs which they have produced. As their music is very similar to the band i have chosen to use - 'The Olivers', it was easy to find a song which is similar to theirs. The one I looked at was 'Sex On Fire'. Below is the link to view this song:
http://www.nme.com/video/muzuid/60444/search/Kings%20Of%20Leon

Planning for Task.

Monday 1st February 2010:
Today I looked at my minor task again and decided I just wanted to make a minor change to it. I changed the bar code at the bottom of the page to make it more personalised. I did this by working in Fireworks MX and i changed the letters and numbers to 'ST1BDS.39274'. I then saved this and copied it into my minor task which was in 'InDesign'.