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Orla, How are you finding life now you are in the spot light?
I’m enjoying it a lot, it’s very chaotic at the moment but that’s how I like it, I like to keep my self busy, that way I don’t get into trouble.
Were you a troublesome teen then?
Hmm *looks to her mother on her left and laughs* I wasn't exactly an angel. I got into trouble from the crowd I hung around with, luckily I got my self out of the mess quick enough.
And what exactly was the trouble?
I started to fall out with friends in about year 10, and then made new friends who weren't exactly good for me. I admit in my past I was wrong and stupid, getting involved with the police, smoking, drinking the lot. When things started to get out of hand I began to get angry, that’s when I turnt to my music.

So, would you say music saved you from ruining your life?
Definitely, if I hadn't turnt back to singing and song writing, I would probably be in prison. I’m so grateful to have the talent I do. I really want to encourage teenagers to get involved and reach for the best of their abilities. 

We would have never of thought you were ever like that! 
*Laughs* Aw thank you, trust me I have grown up and learnt my ways now, I know I can’t rely on my mum to get me out of trouble and help with every step. I am a changed person and i’m proud of who I am now.
We are very proud of you! You’re a very inspiring young lady... So we love your new album, have you got a tour planned?
Weird you said that, only yesterday I was talking to my manager about going on tour. So watch this space everyone.
Very exciting, what do you love most about now being a number 1 artist of 2012?
I love performing, Connecting with my fans, and just to see them having fun! I love singing live, because I can change it up and have a bit of fun. 


We heard that in the last gig you had a little guest back stage?
(continuously laughs) I’ve gone so red. I don't know what you’re talking about. 
We know you’re lying, so the rumour about you and Alex turner from Arctic Monkeys dating is true?
Nothing is set in stone yet. But yes we have been seeing each other, but that’s it so far.
Is there a future with you two?
Maybe there will be a future for Alex and I, these thing’s just happen.
That’s a good start, is he the great all rounder the media portrays?
Of course, he’s an amazing guy and extremely talented. He deserves all the credit he gets, he really does. 

We really want thing’s to workout with you two.
You never know, but I do want to just focus on my career for now, I’ve only just begun!!
Would you ever date a fan?
I would date anyone aslong as they want me for me.
What is your favourite song?
Hm I have quite a few, Cold play, Oasis, Arctic Monkey (she laughs, and we all know why!), The Beatles! 

What is a secret about you?
I have a huge scar on my knee, from when I thought The Kooks were in my local shopping centre so I ran all the way and didn’t make it because I tripped over and got rushed to hospital for stitches. Yes I was once a proud fan girl myself.
Any bad habits?
Probably singing constantly but it’s what I live for!
Do you drink, if so what kind of drunk are you?
I just want to have a good time, but I’m be very clumsy, and often come home with bruises.
Well thank you very much! We have really enjoyed interviewing you + hope for the best with the rest of your career.

This is my interview for my music magazine.

How are you finding life now you are in the spot light?
I'm enjoying alot, it's its very caotic at the moment but that's how I like it, I like to keep my self busy, that way I don't get into trouble.

Were you a troublesome teen then?
Hmm *looks to her mother on her left and laughs* I wasn't exactly an angel. I got into trouble from the crowd I hung around with, luckily I got my self out of the mess I got my self into in the first place.

And what exactly was the trouble?
I started to fall out with friends in about year 10, and then made new friends who weren't exactly good for me. I admit in my past I was wrong and stupid, getting involved with the police, smoking, drinking the lot. When things started to get out of hand I turnt to my music, as it was a way for me to relax and forget about all my problems.

So, would you say music saved you from ruining your life?
Definitely, if I hadn't turnt back to singing and song writing, I would probably be in prison. I'm so grateful to have the talent I do. I really want to encourage teenagers to get involved and reach for the best of their abilities.

We would have never of thought you were ever like that!
*Laughs* Aw thankyou, trust me I have grown up and learnt my ways now, I know I can't rely on my mum to get my out of trouble and help me with every step. I am a changed person and i'm proud of who I am now.

That's very inspiring, we heard you have set up a number of youth clubs in london recently, is this true?
Yes! I organised 5 so far, that is as much as I can do at the moment. I've managed to make time to visit one every tuesday. I want to see them, tell them my story, help and watch them grow into mature teenagers ready for the world. I just want teenagers of the streets.

We are very proud of you! You're a very inspiring young lady.
So we love your new album, have you got a tour planned?
Weird you said that, only yesterday I was talking to my manager about going on tour. So watch this space everyone.

Oh that's very exciting, what do you love most about now being a number 1 artist of 2012?
I love performing, I know its obvious, but I really do. Being able to just see that myself and my songs are making people have the enjoyment they are, it simply makes me my day. I only sing live obviously and at gigs I really get into it and can have abit of fun with my songs and the audience.

We heard that in the last gig you had a little guest back stage?
hahahahahaha (continiously laughs) I've gone so red. I dont know what you're talking about.

We know you're lieing hahaha, so the rumour about you and Alex turner from The Arctic Monkeys dating isn't true?
Well, we are not 'dating'. But yes we have been singing, but we're simply just friends at the moment.

Oh! That's a little dissapointing, so there's no chance of seeing the later Orla Turner?
Oh god no, he is a very nice guy, and we have such a laugh, maybe something may happen, but nothing like that. I've only just started my career up!!!

That is very true, so you are not looking for a boyfriend?
No, I am not, I purely want to focus on my career. However what ever happens happens, you can't stop them things happening.

Would you ever date a fan?
Of course, as long as I can trust the person. But it would take a very long time.

So all your boy fans have a chance!

Now time for some random questions are readers have sent in!

What is your favourite song?
Hm that's a hard one, I have quite a few, can I just give you some of my favourite artists? because I simply love all the songs of all their albums!.. Cold play, Oasis, The artic monkey (she laughs to her self, and we all know why!), the beatles I still love the beatles!

When is your birthday?
15th of November!

What's your guilty pleasure?
I love sweets, I have such a sweet tooth, I would have a desert over my dinner anyday! Its so unhealthy!

What is a secret that not many of your fans know?
I have a huge scar on my knee, from when I thought The Kooks were in my local shopping centre so I ran all the way and didn't make it because I tripped over and got rushed to hospital for stitches. Yes I was once a proud fan girl myself.

Any bad habits?
Oh yeah! I bite my nails, sorry I know it's not nice but you asked! Oh and I sing the majority of the time, people find that very annoying.

Do you have a hidden talent?
Oh hm, um, believe it or not all that time I was getting into trouble the only thing i was commited to was playing the violin and obviously my singing! I'm actually quite into classical music. Oh and im quite good at accents!

Who was your first celebrity crush?
Robbie Williams, and I still quite fancy him. (covers her face with embarrassment).

Do you drink, if so what kind fo drunk are you?
That is random! Um I do occassionally drink, and I just want to have a good time, but I'm known to be very clumsy, and often come home with bruises from falling over!

Well thankyou very much! We have really enjoyed interviewig you and hope for the best with the rest of your career.

Thankyou very much for having me!

Music magazine pictures (before edit)

I didn't really like a lot of the picture I previously took for my music magazine, so I wanted to take some more. I didn't like them because when I edited them her face seemed to look shiny or the complexion of her skin wasn't right. Also I forgot to change her outfit, and in the magazines I researched the artist always has various different outfits on, also with different makeup, hairstyle etc. 

Here are a few I am considering using...

Although the quality of the picture wasn't how I expected it to turn out due to not having the best equipment, I know I can adjust this with Photo Shop. I again used a slight close up on some of the pictures, but also decided to show half of the body. I wanted the audience to be able to see more of what sh is wearing so it was more of a representation of what audience I'm trying to set out to attract. Also I wanted to try out different shots to see what would work with different layouts, this helped me to become more adventurous. I think the ones of her smiling really show the personality I want the artist to have, a bubbly, humorous, fun loving person.  

My front cover picture for my music magazine

This is the picture I would like to have on my front cover, I chose this picture of all pictures because it is stylish and edgy, which is the look I aimed to give off when taking the pictures. Also I chose this specific shot (mid close up)  because I wanted to get a close up of her face because I wanted to show a definded look on her make up, and eyes. But I also wanted a little bit of the background to show to show so affect. I really also wanted a bit of accessories shown, including her gold chain and just a plain white T-shirt I wanted to keep things plain and simple but for her makeup and hair to show the edgy style to the magazine. I edited it on photoshop using various editing skills I researched on how to air brush as that was a key thing I wanted to edit on the picture to give her the typical magazine, airburshed, flawless skin look. I also had to edit out the red in her eyes from taking the picture. I used various simple effects on photoshop, to make a difference in the picture. Here is a before and after...

This is my original picture without any edits.

The edit I did on photoshop...

Pictures I have taken for my music magazine

Here are quite a few pictures I have taken for my music magazine. I really wanted to focus on closeups, I think they are very powerful and you can easily create a key feature e.g. eyes, to draw the readers attention into the picture. Therefore I focused on closeups and mid shot pictures, nothing below her waist. I wanted the pictures to be simply, this is why I chose her with wear just a plain white T shirt in most of it. The way I dressed her really represents the audience I want to attract for my magazine, as she is dressed in a edgy way. Also not covered in loads of jewellery of wearing lots of designer fancy clothes represents the type of readers I want to attract. Young middle class teenagers who are only really interested in the passion of music and also the urban edgy fashion. Also I really want her to have a serious face on the front of the cover and perhaps on my double page spread purely because I want it to show a serious side to music and although she is a fun loving person she is serious when she needs to be, this then allows what young adults of today should be like. Also I think the moodiness of her face also represents the 'typical teenager'.  

Double page spread for my music magazine.

This is my plan for my content page, I really want my first page just containing a picture and an interesting quote from the magazine, to encourage the readers to read the article alot. I also really like the following page I put together, I want certain things to to catch the readers eye to the heading, quote and the main letter to connect in with the theme with my magazine.

Mid shot, layout for front cover for my music magazine.

 

This is my other front cover magazine with the midshot picture in the middle, I like this because the text can then be written in the middle of the page. I really like the idea of having the artists name bold coming across the body of the artist. This is the main reason I want my layout like this aswell.

BARCODE

This is my bar code, I imitated an image from Google images, and then made my own version of it on paint. I used the lines in different thicknesses, and then added text at the bottom, making a little code up. I am going to use this on my music magazine as every magazine must have one of these by law to be able to buy it. 

Publication Plan

Publication Plan 

Name of magazine:
LDN (as it is a British magazine but produced, edited etc all in london).

Font name:
Ariel but i'm still not certain. 

Positioning statement:
Front cover-
I would like my front cover to have a main picture of a close up of the models face (Orla) so you are able to clearly see who the magazine is about and features on her face like her eyes. I would like all the text to surround her face. With very bold white text which says LDN (on the top left corner and Orla written at the bottom left hand corner of the magazine.
Content page-
Content page I would like to have a header saying contents page in bold white text and on the left side a column of all the pages included in my magazine in order with the categorie name above it. And pictures on the right side of the magazine.
Double page spread-
On my double page spread I would like to have one page to be just her face which takes up all the page up and I would like it to have a quote included. On the other page to just be the article.

Frequency publication:
I would like it to be a weekly magazine.

Price of magazine:
£2.70

Distribution:
In the UK, local shops and big supermarkets. 

Rationale: (What is the thinking behind the magazine- Have you identified a gap in the market?)
Just to be published in the UK but all artists from around the world included.

Style: 
Alternative- Indie/soft rock.

Regular content:
Music gossip, interviews, pictures (photoshoot pictures, backstage pictures and pictures sent in by audience from recent gigs), and reviews, competitions, main articles.

Feature content in your issue: 
New singer, who becomes famous over night, double page spread interview on upcoming album/ tour/ questions on life past and present. Past is about her troublesome teenage past, getting into the wrong social groups and getting involved with police. The present is about her new crush on Alex Turner from a famous band called Arctic Monkeys (very popular in the media at the moment). Future is about her upcoming tour. It also includes 'top questions' the audience has sent in themselves. I would like to include one main big picture on one whole page of my double page spread. Then other quote's and pictures adding in conent page and front of magazine.  

House style: What font will you use? Will it be the same for articles/heading/captions?
I would like a colour scheme of white, black and red which will be consistent throughout my magazine. I would like to use a very think bold and big text for my title LDN along with my main artists name Orla. The rest will be similar writing, more of a fancier handwriting. However I am stil undecided. 

My magazine questionnaire results:

For my questionnaire which I previously presented on my blog I asked 20 people of various ages and interests to fill it out. I found out that from the ages between 15-20 were most interested in Indie, rock, and RnB or either all or two mixed together, being alternative music. These results were about 2/3 of my questionnaire. Because I wanted to focus on a more younger audience (teens/young adults) this was very helpful for my conclusion for the decisions I would like to make for my music magazine. I also found that both genders liked this genre of music so I would base my magazine for both genders. It was only really the older ages who liked other genres of music, and even still there were only the odd questionnaire which said they liked another genre, and I found that if they liked a similar popular type of genre it was only rock. 
The most common thing that I found from my results that attracted the audience was pictures and interviews, and gossip was popular but not as popular. And what they actually hope to find in a magazine/ look for, is interviews, reviews and gossip, being the most popular.
Most of the magazine they were interested was RnB music or Rock magazines, such as GO and Kerrang. 
Everyone of my candidates were would liked the magazine to be based on bands and solo artists. And again everyone of my candidates were interested in seeing competitions being included in the magazine.
The price they were most willing to pay for a magazine ranged from £2.00 to £4.50. 

This has helped me a lot and I can now see what people would want to see in a magazine in order to by and continue to pay for the magazine. 

Music magazine questionnaire filled out.

Here is four of my questionnaires I got people to fill out. This was the most varied my questionnaires got, apart from the odd two with complete different music interest, i.e country and classical. So I didn't want to include them to this part of my results because I thought it was quite irreverent. I wanted to get present two from each gender, to see if there is any difference. Also I wanted to show how all they three main popular genres, which are Rock, Indie and RnB.

This candidate was most interested in the more rock, indie mix of music. 

This candidate was again most interested in the rock indie mix.

  

This candidate was slightly different and was more interested in RnB, however did enjoy listening to Indie like the others.

This candidate is a bit of both from what we have seen already, they like indie and RnB. I wanted to show that quite a lot of my candidates like a bit of both types of genres mixed together.

Questionairre

This is my questionairre for my music magazine...

1. What gender are you? (please circle your gender)

Female     Male

2. How old are you? (please circle your age)

12-14     15-17     18-20     21-25     Over 25

3. What genre of music are you into? (please circle the following, and if other please write on the space given, circle as many as you like)

Rock     RnB     Classical     Jazz     Country     Alternative     Indie     Other                          

4. What attracts you to a magazine? (please circle the following)

Pictures     Bold text     Bright colours     Gossip     Interviews    Other                                   

5. What is your favourite music magazine? 

                                                                                      

6. Would you prefer a magazine based on bands or a solo artist? (Circle your chose)

Bands     Solo Artist     Both

7. What are your three favourite artist/ bands? (please name them)

                                                                                                          

8. What do you look for in a magazine? (Please circle as many as you like)

Free gift     Interviews     Reviews     Gossip     Other                                   

9. Would you like competitions included in the magazine, to win tickets, signed cds, merchandise etc? (please circle the following answer)

Yes     No     I dont mind

10. How much are you willing to pay for a magazine? (please circle the following price)

Less than a £1     £1.00-£1.50     £2.00-£2.50     £3.00-£3.50     £4.00-£4.50     £5.00-Over