Final Cut - DPS!

Final Cut - Contents!

Final Cut - Front Cover!

Contents stories!

- 100 greatest songs of all time (ready for download)
- Justin Timberlake
- Kimberley
- Marina and the Diamonds
- The Vaccines
- Alice Sutton
- Adele
- Emma Wilkinson
- Your questions answered

Snip snip!

After my rough cut was handed in, I decided I needed to cut out the photos more and lose the background on them for my double page spread so it looks like she is stood behind her. As you can see, you can now see part of the models through her arms:

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Front cover stories!

Justifying my front cover stories:

Justin Timberlake - Bringing Music Back -> play on words. Justin Timberlake has a song called 'Bringing Sexy Back' and as he was returning to the music scene I decided it would be good to mix the 2 things together

Exclusive with The Vaccines -> shows the variety of music my magazine has to offer

2013 festival guide -> not just about the charts

I then put a lot of artists in a line down the right side of the front cover. In this I used different fonts and for 'Bastille' I made the 'A' look like the way they write it

Dafont.com!

I decided that the text for my title didn't stand out much so I went onto a website called www.dafont.com and searched through the 'serif' option. I found a font called Liberation Serif so I downloaded that onto my computer and used it for my title, this is what it looked like when I was searching on the website:

Background!

After I did my rough cut, I found that the front cover had too much white space on the background so I changed the background to a black gradient background.
I made it on photoshop to make the gradient go from dark to light in the middle to enhance my model

Keeping Up!

I keep making sure that when I am making differences to the music in the magazine that I am keeping up with the charts so none of my stories will be irrelevant. To do this I have been frequently going onto the Radio 1 website and checking the charts:

            

Rough Cut Double Page Spread!

Rough Cut Contents Page!

Rough Cut Front Cover!

Price!

I have decided to price my magazine at £2.99 as it was the most popular choice in my research. It is at a mid price range so is appropriate for the ages of my target audience.

Vibe Decisions!

I want my magazine to be fun and easy to read.
I don't want anything too serious and it is going to have a mixture of music in it
I want to make the magazine look stylish and modern

Black and White!

Today I changed my photos for the double page spread from colour to black and white. I did this on photoshop:

Beep Beep!

Today in the lesson, I made my barcode on PhotoShop. I watched a YouTube video tutorial to help me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6B47JUwrv8 - This is the address for the tutorial I watched.

This is what my barcode looked like in the end, I turned it vertical so that it would fit down the side of my front cover discreetly. 

The Article!

I have written an interview for my double page spread, I chose to do a question and answers type interview rather than a feature article as it was the most popular choice in my survey which I did. This is the article...

Congratulations on your first ever Grammy! How did it feel when you collected your award from fellow Brit and hugely talented Ed Sheeran? 

It was honestly amazing, I never expected to be nominated let alone winning. As for Ed, well I was in total ore of him when I got up on stage, truly speechless and that’s not like me!
How long did ‘Victory’ take to complete as you wrote all of the songs on the album yourself?

Over all it took me about 3 years to finish it all off and be 100% happy with it. For me it wasn’t about how fast I could get an album out there, it was much more of a diary for me. I needed to go through life experiences and in the process I’d write them all down and join them together. It was tough but the end result was definitely worth it.
What did you do to celebrate when the album was complete?

[begins to laugh] Well I obviously went out and enjoyed myself with a few of my close friends and family. Nothing major like the papers made out. -Kimberly was seen stumbling out of Mahiki bar in the early hours of the morning, looking slightly worse for wear. I was definitely caught off guard when the pap got me. 
You’re only 21, how do all of your friends react to your huge success and all the publicity that comes with it?
Many of my friends are still at university so I don’t really get to see them much. Living in London now also makes it a lot harder but all of them are fully supportive. I live with my best friend Paige as she is here in London studying fashion so it’s like a fun party house. I do have the best of friends, I couldn’t ask for a better bunch.

Did you know from a young age that this is the career path you wanted to take?  

It’s not actually. I’ve always loved singing but from a very young age I always dreamed of becoming a doctor. I got all of my grades to carry on following that dream from college but I had also been writing music. It then clicked that I would love to do this as my job so I went around a few labels, not expecting anything. A few weeks later, after I had enrolled in university, I got a call from Right Records wanting to sign me. 
Did you sign to them straight away?
When I got the call I was in so much shock, I couldn’t believe it. The first person I rang was my mum and she told me to go for it and I had nothing to lose. So as soon as I came off the phone to her, I called them straight back accepting. The next week I was in the studio, it was such a fast process, I was definitely one of the lucky ones.
You’ve made friends within the record label, are you planning on any collaborations in the near future?                                      

Yeah I do have a few things in the pipeline. I don’t want to give too much away because it is all a working progress at the minute but it is very exciting. I have met some incredible and                                                                                                                                               truly talented people in the past few years. 
Many of your singles are written about being unlucky in love, are you still single?
I didn’t actually intend on so many of the songs off the album to be about my love life but things happen in life and when things so significant happen writing songs helps me through it. I apologize to all my ex-boyfriends though!-laughs- And yes I am still single but I am also having a good time. I don’t really have much time to be in a serious relationship at the minute, everything is just work, work, work. 
So you and Max from The Wanted are strictly just friends?[Kimblerly recently has been seen cosying up to Max on holiday]

-smiles- Me and Max get on really well and we have been close friends for a while now. We are both super busy at the moment so, no, nothing is happening although he is a lovely boy.

Is there any plans on making your second album yet? Or do you just want to have a break before you begin to write again? 
I have started to write some stuff but nothing is set in stone just yet. I think I will probably have about 3 months off before I get into the studio again. As they always say, the second album is always the hardest.
When you were younger who were the singers/bands which you looked up to the most? 
I loved all of the classic bands such as Oasis and The Beatles. I also used to listening to music with my parents at dinner
and parties so I had a much more old school music taste to my other friends. It’s crazy to think that some of the people I used to listen to when I was a child, I now class as friends.
We also saw you recently front row at London Fashion Week...  
That was a great week! I’m really into fashion and always have been so to be asked to go and be front row was truly incredible. I was lucky enough to go backstage and I met Cara Delevingne who is amazing, she was such a lovely girl.
You were also voted on the Best Dressed list for the dress you wore to The Grammy’s, which designer were you wearing?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        As I mentioned before I have been a huge fan of fashion for many years. I was always in my mum’s wardrobe and dressing up, so being on the best dressed was a great feeling. As for the designer, I just wore a dress from Topshop, I’m not really into wearing a lot of designers. I would much prefer to have a lot of clothes from the high street than one or two items from a designer. I mean I would love to be able to afford my whole wardrobe full of designers but I definitely am a saver over a spender.
Thank you very much for talking to us today and all of us from Vivid wish you the best for the future                                                 

Thanks for having me!

 Kimberley’s album ‘Victory’ is out now available for download and in stores. £9.99. 

This is what my double page spread looks like so far without any of my pictures on. 

DPS photos!

2 of the photos on my double page spread I changed into black and white on photoshop.
This makes the main photo stand out much more as it is in colour.

The 2 photos in black and white are suppose to represent the 'Alter Ego' of Kimberley where as the main photo is much more of a studio shot.

Writing time!

I am starting to think about what my article is going to be like. From my research I found that people would prefer an interview over a feature article so I am going to take this into consideration.
I am going to do question and answer style questions as they are easy to read and people are more likely going to read the whole thing rather than leaving it towards the end.
I am going to have questions about their music but also about their personal lives.

Survey Monkey!

For part of my research I created a survey on 'surveymonkey.com' asking people various questions.

1. What is your favourite type of magazine?
2. What colour would you like to see running through a music magazine?
3. How much would you be willing to pay for a music magazine?
4. How many images would you like to see throughout the magazine?
5. What are your favourite types of articles?

Q.1

Q.2

Q.3

Q.4

Q.5

The things that I am taking forward towards my magazine decisions are:

- Variety of music types

- Lime green colour scheme

- Priced between £2-£3

- Even amount of pictures and text

- Queston and answers interview