Organisation/Drafting and Planning: Other Artists in my Magazine

As well as my main band, Loving Hate, I will include other artists and bands. These bands will be called: Middle Fingers, Cubstone and Ruthless Banter. An Artist in my magazine will be Greg. I will use already established bands and artists. These will be Blur, Noel Gallagher and Bob Dylan. Insult Country

1. Insult Country

Target Audience: Production Companies

Here are some production companies of magazines. I think that I will use IPC media as the producers of my magazine as my magazine is the same sort of style as NME.

Organisation/Drafting and Planning: Tracklisting

My main feature band, Loving Hate, have realised a new album called Epitaph. Their new album has 11 tracks. The tracklisting of the album is as follows:
1) Sword and Shield
2) 14
3) My Love
4) Don't Wait
5) Slow Song
6) Wine All Over Your Clothes
7) Song for Bob
8) Lights On
9) Lies and Seek
10) He Looked at Her
11) Epitaph

Drafting and Planning: My Band Identity

My main featured artist is going to be a new Britpop phenomenon called 'Loving Hate'. There are 4 members of the band, John, Joe, Ben and Seb. John and Joe are 18, Ben is 17 and Seb is 17. They became a band 2 years before they managed to get signed by Marshall Teller. The band played in small arenas often, till they found a defining sound. They now feel they are the future of Britpop, and maybe even music. Their single 'Sword and Shield' has been a hit and they have just released a new album, Epitaph. They hope to change the way that people see music and hope to have an effect worldwide, as they are an immensely ambitious group.

Drafting and Planning: Name of my Band

I have decided to call my band Loving Hate. I have said in a previous post that it was a possible name for my band and I have decided that is what I will name my band. I thought about using the actual name of my band, Static Irony, but decided that it perhaps didn't suit the britpop style of my magazine. I am pleased with the name Loving Hate, as it is a Shakespeare quote, and an oxymoron, and is just awesome I think. The phrase is ambiguous and imprecise, which adds a sense of mystery to my artist, as the public will wonder who Loving Hate are. The name is brimming with attitude, which presents the band typically as Britpop, simply through the name.

Drafting and Planning: Name of my Magazine

I have established a name for my magazine. It is S&A. This stands for Scales and Arpeggios. In music, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch, whereas an arpeggio is an musical technique where notes in a chord are played or sung in sequence, one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously. Both these words are heavily linked to music, and are techniques essential to musicians. This links to the fact that I want my magazine to be about the music, not the pretty face on the cover. I am pleased with the name of my magazine, as the two words are musical terms, and I feel S&A is catchy. 

Drafting and Planning: Photos for Double Page Spread

Here are some photos taken when the band were playing. I think that they are successful photos, as it is a music magazine and these photos are of people play music so they are pretty suitable.