The Interview

The Interview

Research:

For my interview I have been influenced by The Smiths magazine tribute from the makers of NME and Uncut magazines. It was a full magazine dedicated to The Smiths which used original photography work from the80's.

This was the front cover of the magazine:

Although I am not doing a front cover I decided to add this image to my research because I like the style of the main image used. I like the colour scheme and the set up of the image and the low quality, noise and positioning.

I like this image because it is very simple but shows a lot of emotion. I like how the greyscale causes focus and positioning on/of Morrissey and how the spotlight on his can portray different things.

I like this image because it shows a side that most of Morrissey's shoots don't capture. I like the old style of the photo and it would be good for a magazine image because it's different to posed photo shoot images.

For my tester magazine I did:

This was my tester style of layout and page setup. I like how the whole of the image is the background and I have faded the right side of the image where the text has been placed which I think works quite well as it is easy to read. I would use this as my interview pages with more questions and answers.

I like the simplicity of these pages but do not think it works well for the images I have taken. I think the images need to blend together to be able to be on each page. I would use these as my 2nd and 3rd pages because it is a taster of what is to come within the interview.

Further Research:

I like this image because of the lighting in the background and the silhouette style of the vocalist. It highlights the artist and captures him doing a microphone trick which shows a little about him. I like how the main focus is on him and his microphone which shows he is focused about his music and likes to show off to his fans whilst performing to them. 

I like the idea of this image, the focal point being on the lead singer as most bands have the lead singer as their lead speaker in interviews and is mainly the most well known of all the band. but I also like how they are all wearing similar clothes and posing the same way as if to show how they’re in union with one another.

I like the look of this article because it has a simple layout with a simple colour scheme but it works well with the image and doesn’t take too much focus away from it. It doesn’t show us much about the artist in question but I think the main topic of the interview is about music and her personal interests not on how she looks or her personal life.

I think this is, again, a very simple looking page layout yet very effective. It is still connected with the first 2 pages but looks slightly different.

I like the style and layout of these pages because they get information across yet it is just one image and a small amount of text. I like the simple colour scheme and the black and white tone.

These are the two pages after the introductive page and I think the colour scheme still works well even though a new colour has been added. I like the collage style pictures and how it's split into different sections.

These are the pages which have the most information on them. Although they don't have an interview on them they do have some feedback from the band and quotes. I also like the layout of these pages and the style of the images.

Final Images:

Page 1 and 2:

For the first 2 pages I wanted to keep the style and layout very simple. I think this is very simple and works quite well. If I was to redo these pages I would insert more text and maybe another colour.

Page 3 and 4:

For the third and fourth pages I was testing out my photoshop skills trying to make it seem torn in the middle, it didn't work as well as I originally wanted but I think it is easy to see what it is. I decided on just adding quotes because I didn't want to give to much away to the 'reader' and wanted to keep it all simple.

Page 5 and 6:

For the last two pages I decided on using one image and having the text over the background. Black and white with occasional grey turned out to be the theme of the magazine article and I decided to keep it the same. I think this page is a little too simple and I would have liked to add more to the 'interview' but overall I think it worked quite well.