Parent companies

Parent Companies

I would like my magazine to be part of the Time Inc. previously known as International Publishing Cooperation as it publishes many similar magazines to mine, which are music magazines e.g.  NME, Time and Look etc. Moreover, another reason why I have chosen to use this parent company for my magazine is because the magazines they publish use mid toned color and their house style is normally the same for all issues. Furthermore, I chose this parent company as it posts music magazines with similar genres as mine also, if this company produces my magazine; it is more likely to become successful because it has a wide audience appeal and it will make my media product popular with my target audience.

Parent companies could promote my music magazine on social media as they have a wide audience of different age groups so I would not have to worry about my magazine not getting to my target audience, as they would do all the promoting and publishing internationally.

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Location Reece Form

Where or what location are you planning to shoot your music magazine?

I would like magazine photoshoot to be in my school as it has a wide variety of spaces that are ideal for a photoshoot and I wanted teenagers (my target audience) to feel more involved because it is in a learning space to educate them more about life after school.

Directions to get there?

·         Buses to take are 191 and get off at Oasis Academy Hadley.

·         Trains to take there are any trains that stop at ponders end train station and walk two minutes out of the train station to your destination.

·         Train to Southbury road and a 10-minute walk to your destination.

What do you like about it?

My chosen destination is a wide area and it is not too busy during after school hours as there are no students around to be distractions, it also has varieties of places that are ideal for a photoshoot and there is perfect lighting both inside and outside the building, which was a key for my magazine.

What problems might you encounter with it? How do you plan to overcome them?

·         Students are distracting so this is a problem I might encounter during the photoshoot and I could overcome this by doing it when the students are in class or during after school hours.

·         Furthermore, the lighting can be a problem as the building lighting might have either too much or too little lighting so I can overcome this by doing the photoshoot outside to use some natural lighting.

How is your location relevant to your music magazine/artist?

My location is relevant to my artist as he has been at this school for over 6 years, my magazine is about taking my audience back in time so I figured it would be a good idea to take my artist back to a time of when he had just arrived at that location to get him ready and in character for the photoshoot.

How does your location relate to the (sub-genre) music genre?

The location relates to my sub-genre as it is a school building and my target audience is teenagers so it will be an easier way to promote my music magazine and the music genre, which is what most teenagers enjoy.

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nOstalgia: Hello guys  today we’re here with an 18 yr. old male rapper who made his first appearance on a YouTube channel for freestyling in May 2015, and today he’s here to tell us more about his struggles and how he made it to where he is now. We are here to bring you an exclusive one on one interview with the one and only Santan DAVE. So Dave, when did you realise that your music is getting serious.

Dave: It’s funny because when I turned 17 everything started getting even more serious and it was easier for me to breakthrough, when you’re younger it’s difficult to get older people to listen and pay attention to you, when you’re young you have to make sick content in order for a 25 yr. old top listen to you and say “that tune bangs. It’s usually when you grow up that everyone acknowledges you a bit more.

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nOstalgia: what was your path to fame like?

Dave: The more music I done, the easier it was for me to get a grasp of what was going to make people interested and what made react the way they do to certain songs and things, I don’t have a formula to fame or anything, it all just happened naturally and I think that the freestyles I did helped me build emotion and a connection with my audience, at that point I didn’t know anything other than lyrics, tracks and music videos didn’t concern me as I wasn’t thinking about shows and going on radio, so I went out and tried to make songs but I felt like it was all falsed so I kept doing my own thing. I was invited to Fire In the Booth after JKYL+HYD which was a big song for me as it opened a lot of doors for me; I linked with AJ Tracey and then we made a song called Thiago Silver together after he popped up to me on twitter, it’s a song to look at for inspiration as you can remix the track and put your own bars on top of it if it’s going to set your path straight for you.

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nOstalgia: Some people find it difficult to write songs whereas you make it look so easy, how did you get used to hard to write bars/songs?

Dave: it helped growing from freestyles to tracks because once you can write lyrics you can’t just forget how to write lyrics, there’s a lot people who can write like 10 choruses but when it comes up to proving who they’re and what they can do, they don’t have what it takes whereas I know that I can put bars here and there and I can put this chorus here making it easier for me to make music.

nOstalgia: Why did you decide to start making music?

Dave: At first I made music in order for me to express myself as a lot of stuff was going on in my life at the time so I needed to make music because it was kind of therapeutic now I make it because it’s fun but there’s a lot of pressure but you can’t let it get to you but I don’t know what I’ll be doing if I wasn’t making music. I’m not coming at it at a normal angle of making music, I’m not here to make a couple sick choruses, have an album and disappear; I’m here for every single aspect of music like I’m here for the instrumentals, production, the vocals, for the live acoustic session. I’m here to score soundtracks and do everything possible in the entire music industry not just rap music. A lot of my music sort if started off from me sitting down on stairs and rapping lyrics, I look back sometimes and I just think me, my friends and family have all come so far in the nine or so months that has been since I recorded, this is the one theme that I have in all my videos to sort of sit down and deliver the lyrics form a staircase where I grew up its kind of where it all started. My love for this we’ve seen in particular, I have this complex where it’s like I can’t stand to see myself be second best.

nOstalgia: That was all for now thank you very much for joining us on this heart felt interview with Dave