Interview on my music magazine and Questionnaire

Interview on my music magazine and Questionnaire

From this interview which i did to gain more information about my target audience appeals, i learned that my two interviewees wanted a front slightly side on torso shot of a female as the front cover, They also said that including the top music charts, interviews with stars and news and gossip would be suitable for my indie rock magazine. They recommended that merchandise and posters should be advertised on the magazine to make it more eye catching and attract more attention.

Ideas for front cover

I had some visual ideas about what my front cover of my music magazine is going to be like, i took some rough pictures so i can record them and selected the best three. I took these certain pictures so i could consider the mise-on-scene and cinematography later on when i take practice pictures of my model, so that when i have taken more pictures of my various other ideas i can pick the most suitable and chosen one.

Key band of Indie Rock- Arcade Fire

Key band of Indie Rock- Arcade Fire 

Biography and development

Arcade Fire are a Canadian indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, along with Win's younger brother Will Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara. With two additional percussionists, Diol Edmond and Tiwill Duprate, and saxophonists Matt Bauder and Stuart Bogie.

Founded in 2001 by friends and classmates Win Butler and Josh Deu,the band released a self-titled EP in 2003 and reissued it in 2005. The band recorded their proper debut, Funeral in 2005, it was recorded after several band members had experienced the deaths of loved ones, with many songs which describe their emotions in their previous albums. The album's most famous track is "Wake Up," which was used in a number of important events.

The album was critically and commercially acclaimed. It appeared on many top ten album lists for 2004 and 2005 (due to delayed international releases), the MTV in 2005 Review crowned it the album of the year.

By November 2005, Funeral had gone gold in both Canada and the UK, and sold over half a million copies worldwide,a very large number for an independent release with minimal television or radio exposure.

A track officially released from new album Neon Bible was "Intervention" in December 2006, the proceeds from this release were dedicated to Partners in Health. The album gained much critical acclaim however the band was proclaimed “the most exciting act on the earth” by British music magazine “Q”, “one of the five best albums of 2007” by “Paste” and “Trouser Press” ranked Neon Bible "among the best indie rock recordings of all time."

Dedicated to Butlers' maternal grandfather, Alvino Rey, who was an amateur radio operator, the logo used by the band from this time was a variation of that used by the American Radio Relay League.
Arcade Fire performed at the 53rd Grammy Awards in February 2011. The band was nominated for Grammy Awards in three categories: Album of the Year, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and Best Alternative Music Album.

Arcade Fire also recorded a song for The Hunger Games soundtrack called "Abraham's Daughter" in 2012. The song is featured in the movies end credits. The soundtrack was released on March 20, 2012, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200.

At the 2014 Juno Awards, “Reflektor” won Album of the Year and Alternative (indie rock)  Album of the Year. The album was also a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize. A documentary film called The Reflektor Tapes, about the making of the album, has been selected to be shown at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival.

Brief history timeline of Indie music

My Prezi Presentation on the brief history timeline of Indie music and my sub-genre Indie Rock.

Analysis of a indie rock contents page

Analysis of a indie rock contents page (2)

My Analysis of the second indie rock magazine front cover

My Analysis of the second indie rock magazine front cover

Analysis of a indie rock magazine contents page

Analysis of a indie rock magazine contents page (1)

Brief Indie Rock overview

Brief Indie Rock overview 

The term indie rock, which comes from "independent," describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released and the do-it-yourself attitude of the bands and artists involved. Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Indie rock was extremely diverse, with sub genres that include indie pop, jangle pop, and lo-fi, among others.  In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet, a number of indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.

In the mid-1980s, the term "indie" began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. During the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term "alternative" lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term "indie rock" became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status.  By the end of the 1990s indie rock developed a number of sub genres and related styles.

Indie rock became popular because the DIY beliefs surrounding it, it appealed largely to teenagers. The idea behind the genre is to bring the artists and the listeners closer than ever before. Instead of producer and consumer. The “open-mic” mindset appealed to everyone, everyone could be a part of the community as the indie sound was more “real” than pop, more intimate. Pop artists had access to the top of the line equipment, which often gave the music a crisp, clear sound. In contrast, indie artists, particularly grunge and hardcore musicians, sometimes played with high distortion on the electric guitar and/or recorded the whole track in one take, purposefully. 

Indie-Rock music magazine analysis

Indie-Rock music magazine analysis 

12/11/15

Here is my mood-board of ideas that i gathered from my research of the genre indie rock. I can use these for inspiration for my music magazine cover by analyzing the layout, style and pose of the magazine, to adapt into my own. 

5/11/15

Music Magazine analysis

1/11/15

Final Contents Page