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These images shows the interview preperation of the new duo - LA Girls


This image will be used on the contents page.


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These images above will be used on the double page spread article page of the interview.

First Draft: Interview with the new duo LA Girls

How did you form your band?
Our band was form through secondary school where all our talents were found through music in our lessons which became the first bonding.

How did you all meet?
We both met in secondary school and since then we have been good friends through the year.

Why did you decide to become a duo rather than solo?
We didn’t want to be solo because we have been good friends since school. We thought that it would be fun and we began to upload videos of our covers on YouTube. We ended up getting really good feedbacks which had motivated us to the idea of actually giving it a try.

What inspired you to form the name of your duo [band name]?
It was literally a random thought from looking at previous examples such as Wire, Kerrang, so why not [band name]?

What type of audiences is your music aiming at with the lyrics?
We don’t particularly have an audience that we are aiming at really. It’s more for any audience because really nowadays no one really has a certain genre that they listen to and they may like our lyrics rather than our music. Everyone has their own opinions and our lyrics may relate to their past experiences or lifestyle.

What is your single trying to impersonate towards the audience?
It’s mainly about our past experience and the lifestyle that we were in. Also about the problems we had at home.

Who creates the lyrics? Do you write your own?
We both contribute to writing the lyrics and our songs. We both have ideas for the songs and try to create it as one.

Who is your inspiration towards the music and the writing?
Erm, Kings of Leon, Biffy Clryo, Bon Jovi, Lost Prophets.

How did the industry find you? Who is your manager?
We were found on YouTube. Our manager, John Stevenage commented us through their and had liked our videos and wrote us a message to contact him. We didn’t expect anymore, we just expected just the audience comments. We both knew that it was unsafe as we didn’t know much about agents and that but John is a real achiever and also manage other groups as well.

Do you have any upcoming events/tours or even releasing a new single?
We haven’t confirmed anything just yet but hopefully by this summer or the beginning of 2011 we will have an event to inspire other artists to follow their dreams and passion.

Who are your supporters?
We have many supporters behind us such as our families and friends, especially the fans who have our back all the way. It’s much appreciated and the amount of effort we put in is from the support of everyone so we thank everyone for keeping us on our toes and sending in your help.

How would you feel becoming no.1?
Anii: Becoming number one would be the best thing ever to happen for both me and Looiie, it would be the best thing in the world and I hope one day we would reach the hits with most of our records and become a big success in the future as the most known duo.

Looiie: And also with the support of everyone and I hope our music inspires everyone to listen and buy our records, it will be the most helpful and encouraging support for us to try even harder.

Is there any artist you would like to combine and have a duet with?
Looiie: I wouldn’t mind having a duet with B.o.B, he is such an awesome artist and it would be cool to mix both of our music or Paramore who I really like. Their music is not so strong of rock and the lyrics are cool as well.

Anii: I wouldn’t mind having a duet with Ke$ha, she’s funny and so realistic well in her world. Her music is written with no care which music should be, lyrics of your own thoughts without concerning others and just pure fun.

What is the biggest thing a fan has done to see you?
Erm, I don’t know actually there hasn’t been much damage except for the one time when we went for a record signing and whilst walking through the crowd there was this one young teen who looked about 17 and he tried to grab Looiie for her attention to take a picture with and the securities just went mental. So I guess that was one crazy moment that we would be aware of. The crazy fans these days would just do anything don’t they? Being famous is mad.

Where would you like to tour around?
We have heard that we would be touring around New Zealand and around America of course. There isn’t any specific place I would like to go because I want to travel everywhere but the most popular of all would be Tokyo and Korea, it would be awesome to play over there and show them the different type of music America has towards the Japanese and Koreans. Hopefully a duet maybe with one of their top artist would be great not to compete but to have fun and I’m sure they would like the same to come back to America and gain an experience. But other than that anywhere and everywhere.

Where were you brought up?
Anii: Well I was brought up in Brooklyn, “the slums” known for the new Yorkers, but it really isn’t as bad as people think and say it is, maybe a murder every once a month? I joke. Brooklyn is actually pretty quiet when it comes to the night time but just down the road of each high street it’s madness with the clubhouse all living it up.

Looiie: I was brought up in LA, I know “fancy”. But after I moved to the city for high school and college because my parents moved but I prefer living in LA with the weather always hot and the people there are friendly whereas in New York it is a bit different. I would love to live in Australia later on in life though because it is such a beautiful place and I want to experience the living there.

Has being famous become what you expected?
Being famous is worst than I thought, one you hit fame your reality is gone you can hardly do anything you want and live a real life. There are too many people watching every step you take and you have to watch out with crazy unexpected strangers or “fans” behind you which is why there has to always be a security beside you or least notice of where you’re going. It’s like living in a tight world always walking on eggshells.

Magazine Title blocks

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Title Blocks Analysis

The style of the Rolling Stone title does not show any genre of the magazine as it’s written in a fancy handwriting so you wouldn’t think the title would be of a rock magazine but from the title you can tell that it could be a rock magazine as there is a rock band called the rolling stones and it could be related to the band type of music. The colour of the title is a basic single colour. The tone of the red is bright which makes the title stand out and appeal to readers but otherwise it does not show any other information about the magazine from the colours.
The rolling stone title shows that the magazine varies from music which are more of the olden type such as the rolling stones themselves and Bon Jovi, yet still introducing new artist. The title Rolling Stone, as it’s a rock genre magazine, can be taken from the rock band The Rolling Stones and be inspired by their music to create a magazine on behalf. The style of the magazine title is handwriting based and it looks like more of the old 90’s time, this created a target audience of readers between 16+ and who are into rock music.



The title of Q magazine is too basic and plain, it does not show any other but just a letter. It does not show any clue or images of what music genre it might be. The colours used are basic red and white and for someone who has never read or seen Q magazine, I would expect by viewing the title it would be a sports/men magazine as the title is written in a fancy style and because of the colours. The Q leaves readers asking questions if they saw the title. The font is hard to review about the magazine and the meanings to it as there are no other extras included, it gives a clueless idea of the magazine and the meaning behind it but the way the title is written the magazine could be reaching out to audiences ranging from 16+ because of the style of the font and colours used which changes the type of magazine it could be.



The KERRANG! title represent that it is a rock magazine because of the way the title is presented with an exclamation mark at the end that could represent the tone of music the magazine views. The colours used is just black written in big bold capital letters to represent an obvious magazine type to their readers and attract their attention as the title is in capitals and black. The title KERRANG appeals that it is just a random word which attracted the producers of the magazine that could be from rock stars would use and shout out to their fans. The title views that the target audience could be towards readers from young age of 13+ and those that are interested in rock music.

Double-page spread #2

The choice of band featured in the article is of a Hip Hop artist, GZA which represent the magazine as a hip hop genre therefore its targeted audience are towards readers who are interested in hip hop music.
The type of language used in the magazine is directly being told from GZA who is being interviewed by the magazine reporter, this includes slang and foul language – “IT’S FRUSTRATING SEEING RAPPERS TALKING ABOUT THE SAME SHIT ALL THE TIME, THERE’S SO MUCH TO WRITE ABOUT!” quoted directly from GZA.
The colours used in the article are mainly black and red. The use of red are features to represent the character such as the subtitle in the centre of the article. The colours are used as a Q&A style, red for the questions as the main interest and black for the answers.
The style of text is written in a formal layout and the text are direct speech. It also included dialog of GZA reaction – [chuckles].
The layout of the article is separated with a full page image of the artist GZA on the left page and the article on the right page with the heading pointed big and bold in red at the centre of the page.
The images and text has a page on its own for their features.
The tone of the magazine when addressing the reader is as though they are talking directly to them as the journalist as the article is laid out as an interview.
The image is showing a full length picture of GZA with the “ghetto” look and relaxed. The audience would see the image as a hip hop street style artist by the clothes GZA is wearing as it’s basic and plain with just jeans and a plain white t-shirt, so the style is simple.
The style of the article and the image of the front cover match well as the use of colour and the font text are similar and also used on the cover of the magazine such as the title.
The article does not demand a high status of knowledge about the artist itself as he has been introduced briefly at the beginning of the article. “He’s rated possibly the best emcee which most would consider to be the greatest rap group of all time”.

Double-page spread #1 KERRANG

The choice of band in the article above is of My Chemical Romance who are a rock band therefore the target audience the magazine is reaching out to are for those that are interested in rock music. This is suggested by the genre of the band itself and the type of magazine the news is featured in as Kerrang is a rock magazine.
The language of the article is written in a formal presentation of an interview, there are no specific style of wording or phrases but a written interview with MCR.
The colours used in the article are just red, black and white which represent the neutral rock colours. The black and white photographic background creates a reality in the music studio of MCR recording which represent real passion and success about the rock band. The Red titles and speech such as “NEWS World exclusive” brings a leading start to the heading “WE’RE BEING THE BEST MCR WE CAN BE”. With these text written in capitals and bold, it attracts immediate attention to the article for the readers to look into it. The read sub-headings bring attraction as it’s one of the thing that will stand out of the page.
The style of the text such as the big bold title introducing the article creates a direct speech to the readers, viewing about themselves (MCR). The style of the article is written in two columns which present the article in a well organised prospective and easy to read.
The double-page spread is laid out with one page a photograph of the leading singer performing with the title NEWS in bold, red writing on the top left corner. This can catch the readers’ attention to read about them and find out the news that’s being revealed. On the other page presents the titles in big capitals rock theme fonts which represent MCR genre. There are also images of the band on the bottom of the page with the short article in the centre of the page above the images. The layout of the article with the text placed in the centre of the page creates a centre of attention feature to the news which allows easy access for readers to read.
The image included in the article mostly covers the double pages with the short article placed only in a small section in the middle of 1 page. There are not much text written on the pages about MCR but there’s a side bar on the right hand sand where listings of their new tracks from MCR are revealed and reviews from listeners are told.
The sort of language that’s used in the article is being told as a member of an “in crowd”, as though it’s speaking to viewers as a news reader and not a friendly approach with interviews included.
The images of the band are presented as a hard-working successful group as it shows the rock stars in recording process.
The article in the magazine matches the front cover because they have similar text font and colour, also similar fonts has also been used for some of the article text. It also introduces the magazine Kerrang in its title which is what the magazine being issued is.
The article does not need a high demand of knowledge about the band to understand the article as it introduces the characters: “My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way”. It also includes many quotations from the interview. “Our original game plan was to make a quick visceral record” which was reviews by the Kerrang crew; this involves reader into the article as it’s mainly writing about the characters in the band and not needing specific known knowledge for readers to include while reading the article.

Magazine Content page #2

The content page is from CLASH music magazine. It shows a full length image of an artist from a popular rock band called the Foo Fighters. It shows his character as the main image as they are news of the day in the magazine. It also presents few other images on the left side of the page who are featured in the magazine.
The style of the magazine is view in the centre bottom middle of the page with listings of what the magazine includes with headlines from Features, Ones to watch, Fashion and regulars. It’s a well presented content as it’s laid out in front of you under each page guide which makes it easier for readers to know what they are reading about. The presentation makes the magazine view as an indie magazine because of the colours and the information it shows with the artist.
The colours used are basic with mainly white writing with a blue background. It creates a melody feeling to the readers as the blue background isn’t so violent but a calm midnight blue. The colour used does not attract immediate attention to an alert topic but the image of the artist brings attention on what the image represents and the story behind it.
There are promotions or advertisement of orders which readers might be interested in to receive such as their fashion.