Thursday, 26 April 2012
Monday, 19 March 2012
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Monday, 27 February 2012
Audience Feedback
I decided to audience feedback on facebook as this allows me to show my work and to get feedback by different people who may not necessarily take media as a course and then this means they are looking at my work soley as a potential customer.
Comments on my Final piece Front Cover:
These are the comments on my Contents Page:
This is also another piece of feedback that i was given: the front cover is good, I like how its arranged and the title looks professional, I like the blue vs white around the picture and it reminds me of like the rolling stone or something like that. The centrefold, I wouldve said to blend the pictures better with the text, like maybe have the text box stylised, I dunno, but on the positive the title looks good and the picture is nice, also the black vs red looks professional in the article. Annnnd, I like the red boxes on the contents (but the top one is out of line and my OCD is going insane xD) different font for the features is good. Laaaaaast thing, I wouldve said to use like a single image or cut them together like the guitarist dudes guitar over the band picture or something like that. Overall though they're professional and I like it :)
Comments on my Final piece Front Cover:
These are the comments on my Contents Page:
- I think it is good the only comment i would make is that it seemed a little crammed maybe spreading it over 2 pages would have been beneficial but then again i do apreciate there is then more space to fill, all in all, good job :)
- this looks gereat nice variety of pictures used and nice variety of articles. layout looks great and the colour scheme looks awesome, good job :D
This is also another piece of feedback that i was given: the front cover is good, I like how its arranged and the title looks professional, I like the blue vs white around the picture and it reminds me of like the rolling stone or something like that. The centrefold, I wouldve said to blend the pictures better with the text, like maybe have the text box stylised, I dunno, but on the positive the title looks good and the picture is nice, also the black vs red looks professional in the article. Annnnd, I like the red boxes on the contents (but the top one is out of line and my OCD is going insane xD) different font for the features is good. Laaaaaast thing, I wouldve said to use like a single image or cut them together like the guitarist dudes guitar over the band picture or something like that. Overall though they're professional and I like it :)
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Production: Playmakers Interveiw
This is the Audio Footage from the Playmakers Interveiw outside of the Cavern Club In Liverpool. The band were still ecstatic from their set at the prestigious venue, and so were the people by the club.
Friday, 27 January 2012
Production: Double Page Spread Article
We got to talk Exclusively to the members of The Playmakers outside their prestigious gig at The Cavern Club, where they told us all about their chance meeting, what its like playing on stage and what we can expect from them in the near future.
The Playmakers are a three piece band from Cirencester, Gloucestershire made up of Charlie Cooper (Vocals/Guitar), Will Jones (Bass/Backing Vocals) & Joe Arthur (Drums) who together have made a lasting impression on audiences with a series of breathtaking yet back to basic gigs in the South West and London, and a showcase gig at the prestigious Cavern Club In Liverpool.
We got fter playing their breathtaking set at The Cavern Club - one of the most iconic places in music history - The Playmakers seemed just as relaxed as at their first ever meeting...in a pub. Charlie and Will spent their younger years together in school played in the same local football team, and shared the same love for music so it was only a matter of time before they began to write songs. Basing their sound on the work of Bob Dylan, and running into problems with the lack of a deep American Voice & the two man set up, they wanted a drummer, Joe Drummer.
After meeting them on a music forum, skipping college and meeting up in their local pub Joe Arthur (Later Re-named Joe Drummer by his bandmates), then brought something unique to the band. His Cozy Powell influenced drumming. This teamed with Charlies driven chord based guitar, and Will’s unique Bass that makes The Playmakers sound so unique in todays musical environment.
But that’s not all of the band influences, the boys told us “There’s not really a lot of modern bands that we like, or listen to for that matter, so we’re always looking back to the 60’s and 70’s stuff, like The Jam, The Clash, Joy Division, and The Stone Roses too were a big part of our lives too” with musical influences like this, there’s no wonder the band are creating a hype wherever they go.
There inspirations don’t just end there though, the band told us what it was that inspired them to get into music in the first place, and it wasn’t just the shows, the bands, and the lack of effective modern music, Charlie told us exactly what it was: “uhm the dole probably, unemployment I think that’s the biggest thing when we met we (Charlie & Will) were both on the dole so we needed something to fill our days up with really, we are sort of angry young men going through different experiences so it was something to take our frustrations out on, and that gave us something to write about”
After writing some of their back to basics songs, such as ‘Shes a Mystery’ which is currently being used on a BBC Pilot show that is still in production, the band also love to do some covers at their live gigs, we wanted to get an idea of the types of ways that certain bands influence their music onto The Playmakers, and by listening to their covers you can hear the links. The members all have a different cover they love to perform, and their own reasoning’s aswell: “Will: well we practice in the garage so when we play Garage Land by The Clash it just feels right, we sometimes we play it live aswell” but for Joe, its a different story: Trouble You is my favourite one, it’s just mental drumming.
Playing gigs is something that the band are doing a lot of at the moment, with gigs set up across the south in the next few weeks, we will be seeing a lot more of them, but we wanted to know about how they feel when they are onstage, what it is that they enjoy, and what goes through their heads when they are onstage.
The band are now continuing a string of 50 gigs mostly in the South West, but are willing to travel anywhere to please their fans, for today’s meeting outside The Cavern Club the band have travelled for 3 hours, and this is just the start. Using Ed Sheeran’s determination as an example, Charlie says: “were at the stage now where i think we have good songs so its just about getting tiogehter, its just getting the gigging experience, i mean with each gig you do you get more experience than in 100 practices, we’ll see what were like after 50 gigs, do some recordings and were sorted, its just being able to get the money and getting it all organised- but theres nothing you can learn more from than playing gig”
The Boys Brand new single “The Boys From Up The Hill”and all the rest of The Playmakers Tracks are now available to download off their website:
http://theplaymakers.get-ctrl.com/#/
Dont foget, watch out for the band touring somwhere near you!
The Playmakers are a three piece band from Cirencester, Gloucestershire made up of Charlie Cooper (Vocals/Guitar), Will Jones (Bass/Backing Vocals) & Joe Arthur (Drums) who together have made a lasting impression on audiences with a series of breathtaking yet back to basic gigs in the South West and London, and a showcase gig at the prestigious Cavern Club In Liverpool.
We got fter playing their breathtaking set at The Cavern Club - one of the most iconic places in music history - The Playmakers seemed just as relaxed as at their first ever meeting...in a pub. Charlie and Will spent their younger years together in school played in the same local football team, and shared the same love for music so it was only a matter of time before they began to write songs. Basing their sound on the work of Bob Dylan, and running into problems with the lack of a deep American Voice & the two man set up, they wanted a drummer, Joe Drummer.
After meeting them on a music forum, skipping college and meeting up in their local pub Joe Arthur (Later Re-named Joe Drummer by his bandmates), then brought something unique to the band. His Cozy Powell influenced drumming. This teamed with Charlies driven chord based guitar, and Will’s unique Bass that makes The Playmakers sound so unique in todays musical environment.
But that’s not all of the band influences, the boys told us “There’s not really a lot of modern bands that we like, or listen to for that matter, so we’re always looking back to the 60’s and 70’s stuff, like The Jam, The Clash, Joy Division, and The Stone Roses too were a big part of our lives too” with musical influences like this, there’s no wonder the band are creating a hype wherever they go.
There inspirations don’t just end there though, the band told us what it was that inspired them to get into music in the first place, and it wasn’t just the shows, the bands, and the lack of effective modern music, Charlie told us exactly what it was: “uhm the dole probably, unemployment I think that’s the biggest thing when we met we (Charlie & Will) were both on the dole so we needed something to fill our days up with really, we are sort of angry young men going through different experiences so it was something to take our frustrations out on, and that gave us something to write about”
After writing some of their back to basics songs, such as ‘Shes a Mystery’ which is currently being used on a BBC Pilot show that is still in production, the band also love to do some covers at their live gigs, we wanted to get an idea of the types of ways that certain bands influence their music onto The Playmakers, and by listening to their covers you can hear the links. The members all have a different cover they love to perform, and their own reasoning’s aswell: “Will: well we practice in the garage so when we play Garage Land by The Clash it just feels right, we sometimes we play it live aswell” but for Joe, its a different story: Trouble You is my favourite one, it’s just mental drumming.
Playing gigs is something that the band are doing a lot of at the moment, with gigs set up across the south in the next few weeks, we will be seeing a lot more of them, but we wanted to know about how they feel when they are onstage, what it is that they enjoy, and what goes through their heads when they are onstage.
The band are now continuing a string of 50 gigs mostly in the South West, but are willing to travel anywhere to please their fans, for today’s meeting outside The Cavern Club the band have travelled for 3 hours, and this is just the start. Using Ed Sheeran’s determination as an example, Charlie says: “were at the stage now where i think we have good songs so its just about getting tiogehter, its just getting the gigging experience, i mean with each gig you do you get more experience than in 100 practices, we’ll see what were like after 50 gigs, do some recordings and were sorted, its just being able to get the money and getting it all organised- but theres nothing you can learn more from than playing gig”
The Boys Brand new single “The Boys From Up The Hill”and all the rest of The Playmakers Tracks are now available to download off their website:
http://theplaymakers.get-ctrl.com/#/
Dont foget, watch out for the band touring somwhere near you!
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Article Research
My main article's focus will be 'The Playmakers' below is the band Biography, along with some reveiws of their work and some clips of their music.
Biography
From way out west in Gloucestershire Charlie Cooper and Will Jones met at school in Cirencester and played for the same local football team. They shared the same passion for music and it was no surprise when they eventually got together and began to write songs. They later recruited drummer Joe Arthur (his name was soon changed to Joe Drummer by his band mates) after a chance meeting in a local pub where his was instantly hired on the basis of being a ‘good bloke’ and owning his own drum kit before they even heard him play. Efforts then went towards agreeing on a band name and after endless suggestions of things that happened to be in the room they agreed on ‘the playmakers’. They began the summer of 2011 on getting some songs together and retreated back to the garage where they wrote and played relentlessly. The dedication of practising paid off with a superb debut gig at the Fleece in Bristol on Sunday 31st July. They have since played at various venues in London and the southwest as well as a gig at the prestigious Cavern Club in Liverpool. They already have a sound of their own – It is back to basics, stripped down, lo-fi with the songs being able to breath and speak for themselves. Charlie’s chord based driving guitar sound works together with Joe’s inspired drumming, which is tight and carry’s the songs with colour and variation that lifts the rhythm. It is Will Jones’s bass that plays the melodic part, taking on a totally different twist to the standard guitar, bass and drums approach and lending itself completely to their own sound and songs. Charlie’s voice is distinct and different and the sum of all these parts make’s them very special and unique in today’s music landscape.
Reveiws
Clips of their music
I looked into the reveiws and biography of the band before choosing them and by listening to their music, I decided they were a good fit for my Magazine.
Biography
From way out west in Gloucestershire Charlie Cooper and Will Jones met at school in Cirencester and played for the same local football team. They shared the same passion for music and it was no surprise when they eventually got together and began to write songs. They later recruited drummer Joe Arthur (his name was soon changed to Joe Drummer by his band mates) after a chance meeting in a local pub where his was instantly hired on the basis of being a ‘good bloke’ and owning his own drum kit before they even heard him play. Efforts then went towards agreeing on a band name and after endless suggestions of things that happened to be in the room they agreed on ‘the playmakers’. They began the summer of 2011 on getting some songs together and retreated back to the garage where they wrote and played relentlessly. The dedication of practising paid off with a superb debut gig at the Fleece in Bristol on Sunday 31st July. They have since played at various venues in London and the southwest as well as a gig at the prestigious Cavern Club in Liverpool. They already have a sound of their own – It is back to basics, stripped down, lo-fi with the songs being able to breath and speak for themselves. Charlie’s chord based driving guitar sound works together with Joe’s inspired drumming, which is tight and carry’s the songs with colour and variation that lifts the rhythm. It is Will Jones’s bass that plays the melodic part, taking on a totally different twist to the standard guitar, bass and drums approach and lending itself completely to their own sound and songs. Charlie’s voice is distinct and different and the sum of all these parts make’s them very special and unique in today’s music landscape.
Reveiws
Formed in the summer of last year, this Cirencester trio look to be an exciting prospect. “The Boys From Up The Hill” and “She’s A Mystery” reveal sharp pop sensibilities, with the overall sound echoing traces of Three Imaginary Boys-era Cure and Franz Ferdinand, underpinned by bass lines paying homage to the great Peter Hook. Immaculately structured, immediately accessible, and definitely a band to keep your eyes on.
Lee McFadden
The Playmakers are a three piece band from Cirencester in Gloucestershire. Newly formed and young - they are playing locally, Cheltenham, Swindon, Bristol and have some gigs in London - The Hope & Anchor, Camden Rock and The Brixton Jamm.
They claim to be more like the post punk/new wave scene than the present indie scene and their influences are many and include The Clash, Dr Feelgood, The Jam, Libertines, Joy Division.
They claim to be more like the post punk/new wave scene than the present indie scene and their influences are many and include The Clash, Dr Feelgood, The Jam, Libertines, Joy Division.
They love British comedy - Steptoe & Son, Dad's Army and even do a version of the 'Only Fools and Horses' theme tune. Basically they are three down to earth lads who want to go back to basics musically.
Listen to some of their music below and watch a video of their first ever live gig. I think you'll agree there's much naivety about their music which is very rough around the edges and yet there's something compelling and addictive about their sound. I hope they stick at it, working the circuit and building up a following as I've a feeling that they've got the attitude and determination to be very successful.
Listen to some of their music below and watch a video of their first ever live gig. I think you'll agree there's much naivety about their music which is very rough around the edges and yet there's something compelling and addictive about their sound. I hope they stick at it, working the circuit and building up a following as I've a feeling that they've got the attitude and determination to be very successful.
My Dad Rocks
Clips of their music
I looked into the reveiws and biography of the band before choosing them and by listening to their music, I decided they were a good fit for my Magazine.
Monday, 2 January 2012
Planning Production
Planning Production
Images on the front cover:
Connotations of Indie or Rock:
Jumpers
Checked Shirts
Skinny jeans
Natural
Guitars
Intimate
Melodic
Meaningful
Acoustic
Coverlines for my front cover:
Looking into winter with The Decemberists
Opening Doors with Two Door Cinema Club
Lights, Music, Songs...The Switches
Plug In – get involved
Shout it OUT!
Images for my Contents page:
Image of a male singer playing guitar
The Switches: A Light switch with Musical Notes
Matt Costa: Costa coffee cup – written Matt ontop
Picture Of The Playmakers
Text for contents page:
Regular content:
Shout it OUT!
Breakthrough – The tracks to listen to
Subscribe
View Review
Fans Forum
Plug In – get involved
The Month In Pictures
It will also consist of feature articles including:
The Big Music Guide
Death Cab for Cutie – Picture Exclusive
Opening Doors with Two Door Cinema Club
Joe Brooks – Is he the next Superman?
Jacks Mannequin – how it all started
Looking into winter with The Decemberists
Songs from the Scots (Kevin McGuire)
Conor Maynard...One Step Closer.
This month – Breaking Out
Lights, Music, Songs...The Switches
Matt Costa – On The Road.
Good Shoes...Rise to the top.
Songwriter Showcase
She Wants Revenge-Tactics for success
Living in the present with Maritime
The Perishes – Behind The Scenes Exclusive
Exploring the island with British Sea Power
Double page spread article:
Interview with a new band – The Playmakers
There will be a photo from the gig on the contents page, with a caption to show
I beleive that i will have about 150 pages in my magazine, but this may become more depending ion the content.
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