Audience Research: Audience Profile

 

Industrial context: Timeline of Magazines

 

Brief choice

 

I have chosen to do a magazine for my NEA as I have used photoshop before and produced a magazine cover for my GCSE NEA and feel confident doing this and I am more familiar with the conventions of a magazine. I am more interested in magazine designs than the other briefs. 

Magazine inspiration

 Dazed magazine

I like how the masthead is very bright and bold most of the time and that there is a lot of contrast. The general colour scheme of most of dazed's covers is bright and bold and I would like to use a similar colour scheme in my own magazine. 

Potential song choices

I would like to use a song that has a good beat that could help with cutting the video at certain points, have distinct instruments so that I can do close-up shots of Lola and Woody playing instruments. It also has to look natural for Lola to sing it so obviously no male singers and just something that makes it look like she is the one singing it. It would be good if it had narrative style lyrics however I think the performace part is more important.

 This is Why - Paramore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIYJ7VaSxYY

I think this could work really well as it has slower verses that can focus on instruments and lip syncing. It has lots of drums and this is featured in the actual music video, this would be good for my music video as I could do close-up shots of Woody playing the drums and Lola playing guitar. It has a faster chorus which would be good for musicality and cutting the shots on beat. I also really like the actual music video for this song and the types of shots they used.

Sinner- The Last Dinner Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfVpq86tOw8

This would also work well with musicality, and the lyrics would be good to analyse a reference in the video. It could have a good narrative as well as performance aspects. 

See You Soon -Beabadoobee

Don't Get the Deal - Beabadoobee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-asbs8dHAOk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vytX29WEkZ8

I really like this song and I think it could have a good narrative. It could also have a distinct style and aesthetic that would be easy to get across with Lola. However, it is a bit short and also not very rocky.

$20 - Boygenius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvItjimKl4M

I would still like to reference BoyGenius in my music video through how Lola and Woody are dressed, but I don't think this song would work well as the lyrics would be hard to analyse and there are also three distinct voices in the dong, so won't match well with Lola's lip syncing

Here's Where The Story Ends- The Sundays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HV5KfE4xMA

I really like this and I think the lyrics could work well as well as the song matching Lola's voice and so looking more natural however, unlike some of the other songs, it has less of a significant change from verse to chorus and has less rock features. 

Models

 

Whether I do a magazine or a music video, I will be using Lola and Woody to take photos/videos of. They can both play instruments and are in a band together, so they can perform confidently. I also like the idea of them wearing suits, or shirts and ties. This is something they did at a recent gig of theirs. It could also be my intertextual reference to rock bands like Boygenius and Nirvana.  

Potential brief: Song choice

I had originally planned to do this song, Cherry Blue Intention by Special Interest, however, I think it is too fast and would be difficult to edit together as well as the lyric analysis being difficult as the words are not clear in the song, and for the most part have no real explicit meaning.