Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Thursday, 24 March 2011
The Logo/Lettering
The Lettering of 'Reckless Abandon' will have an american college or 'varsity' style to it. This is used very often in the genre and will appeal to my audience. These are the ideas for my logo/lettering so far, however it is still possible I might shorten the name to either just 'Reckless' or 'Abandon'.
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
My Contents Page Concept
I have decided that my contents page will follow roughly the same format that NME uses each week; with a long list of bands down the left-hand side (like an index) and a few pictures to show the main articles. This will involve taking a couple of photos of other artists to go into my contents. I will also have to decide on a colour scheme before starting and then stick to it.
My Photo Shoot
I have 2 ideas for my photo shoot. The first of these is to re-create an iconic album with the members of my band. However, this will probably be hard to pull off as if it isn't done accurately it will most likely turn out quite sloppy. I do like this idea though so it remains an option. My second idea was to do 2 separate shoots using my actual band. The first shoot will be a posed one using the general pop-punk band characteristics and in a urban environment. Whereas the second shoot will involve taking live shots whilst performing. I will then mix the photos for different parts of my magazine.
Some of the iconic albums I was thinking of re-creating:
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Patti Smith - Horses
The Clash - London Calling
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Ramones - Ramones
T-Rex - The Slider
Some of the iconic albums I was thinking of re-creating:
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Patti Smith - Horses
The Clash - London Calling
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Ramones - Ramones
T-Rex - The Slider
Thursday, 17 March 2011
The Pop-Punk Evolution
It is not clear when the term pop punk was first used, but pop-influenced punk rock had been around since the mid- to late-1970s. An early use of the term pop punk appeared in a 1977 New York Times article, "Cabaret: Tom Petty's Pop Punk Rock Evokes Sounds of 60s". In the mid-1990s, the California pop punk bands Green Day and The Offspring really kicked the genre as a seperate entity off to a start.
power pop bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the pop punk sound, which emerged at the onset of punk rock around 1974 with the Ramones. The Ramones' loud and fast melodic minimalism differentiated them from other bands in New York City's budding art rock scene, but pop punk was not considered a separate subgenre until later. Several UK bands of the late 1970s also played what can be considered pop punk. The music of the Buzzcocks, Generation X, The Jam, The Rezillos, The Undertones and The Toy Dolls (to name a few) featured catchy melodies, as well as lyrics that sometimes dealt with relatively light themes such as teenage romance. The US band Bad Religion, who started in 1979, were another band that helped lay the groundwork for contemporary pop punk.
By 1981, hardcore punk had emerged in the United States, with louder, faster music than punk bands. Vocal harmony, melodic instrumentation and 4/4 drumming were replaced with shouting, discordant instrumentation, and experimental rhythms. A few bands, such as Descendents, Screeching Weasel, and The Vandals, began to combine hardcore with pop music to create a new, faster pop punk sound, sometimes referred to as popcore or skatecore. Their positive yet sarcastic approach began to separate them from the more serious hardcore scene. In the 1980s, the term pop punk was used in publications such as Maximum RocknRoll to describe bands similar to Social Distortion and Agent Orange.
power pop bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the pop punk sound, which emerged at the onset of punk rock around 1974 with the Ramones. The Ramones' loud and fast melodic minimalism differentiated them from other bands in New York City's budding art rock scene, but pop punk was not considered a separate subgenre until later. Several UK bands of the late 1970s also played what can be considered pop punk. The music of the Buzzcocks, Generation X, The Jam, The Rezillos, The Undertones and The Toy Dolls (to name a few) featured catchy melodies, as well as lyrics that sometimes dealt with relatively light themes such as teenage romance. The US band Bad Religion, who started in 1979, were another band that helped lay the groundwork for contemporary pop punk.
By 1981, hardcore punk had emerged in the United States, with louder, faster music than punk bands. Vocal harmony, melodic instrumentation and 4/4 drumming were replaced with shouting, discordant instrumentation, and experimental rhythms. A few bands, such as Descendents, Screeching Weasel, and The Vandals, began to combine hardcore with pop music to create a new, faster pop punk sound, sometimes referred to as popcore or skatecore. Their positive yet sarcastic approach began to separate them from the more serious hardcore scene. In the 1980s, the term pop punk was used in publications such as Maximum RocknRoll to describe bands similar to Social Distortion and Agent Orange.
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Media Theories
The hypodermic needle model is the theory that the media 'injects' messages to their audience which they play a passive part in and are unable to resist. This theory is now discredited as it is simplistic and out dated. It is suggested that people are not as passive anymore. Although to some extent, peoples opinions are influenced by what they see or hear through media.
Cultivation effect (Drip, drip, drip effect) is when the repetition of a message or opinion has an effect on an audience; causing them to believe the opinion that the media source is putting across. Music magazines often use this as a means of advertising albums and live events.
Two-step flow. Step 1 - media introduces an idea. Step 2 - these ideas are discussed with friends and we reach an opinion. This definitely applies to music magazines. Music magazines introduce an audience to artists, albums, events and a whole list of other things. And from this people will always start discussing what they've read; mainly because people like to seem knowledgeable.
Limited effect - the idea that we are not at all affected by the media as we are 'media literate'. However, in modern times it can clearly be seen that media affects everyone. Whether it's the radio jingles someone hears in the morning or the adverts on a roadside bus stop.
Media Dependency is the belief that media becomes a need. So is it an addiction or a choice? In my eyes it's an addiction. The majority of people spend a large amount of their day either watching TV, on the internet or reading magazines. Without having these media sources people would have no means of obtaining current news or be simply entertain themselves.
Diversion is the theory that people use media as an escape from reality or problems, to distract themselves. This can be applied to the majority of media and works for a lot of people
Personal relationships is using media as topic conversations with friends and using media as a substitute for real contact. This theory applies as magazines offer opinions and often new music which you will then discuss with your friends; however I doubt very many people use media as a substitute for socialisation.
Personal identity is the idea that people use media to define themselves. I think this is true to all media especially things like music magazines. Who people are friends with, how they dress, how they act is all influenced by their interests which are made evident through the media they use.
Surveillance - finding out about the world. This is one of the main appeals of a music magazine as the entire point of reading one is to find out about artists.
Cultivation effect (Drip, drip, drip effect) is when the repetition of a message or opinion has an effect on an audience; causing them to believe the opinion that the media source is putting across. Music magazines often use this as a means of advertising albums and live events.
Two-step flow. Step 1 - media introduces an idea. Step 2 - these ideas are discussed with friends and we reach an opinion. This definitely applies to music magazines. Music magazines introduce an audience to artists, albums, events and a whole list of other things. And from this people will always start discussing what they've read; mainly because people like to seem knowledgeable.
Limited effect - the idea that we are not at all affected by the media as we are 'media literate'. However, in modern times it can clearly be seen that media affects everyone. Whether it's the radio jingles someone hears in the morning or the adverts on a roadside bus stop.
Media Dependency is the belief that media becomes a need. So is it an addiction or a choice? In my eyes it's an addiction. The majority of people spend a large amount of their day either watching TV, on the internet or reading magazines. Without having these media sources people would have no means of obtaining current news or be simply entertain themselves.
Diversion is the theory that people use media as an escape from reality or problems, to distract themselves. This can be applied to the majority of media and works for a lot of people
Personal relationships is using media as topic conversations with friends and using media as a substitute for real contact. This theory applies as magazines offer opinions and often new music which you will then discuss with your friends; however I doubt very many people use media as a substitute for socialisation.
Personal identity is the idea that people use media to define themselves. I think this is true to all media especially things like music magazines. Who people are friends with, how they dress, how they act is all influenced by their interests which are made evident through the media they use.
Surveillance - finding out about the world. This is one of the main appeals of a music magazine as the entire point of reading one is to find out about artists.
Tropes & Memes
Tropes are recurrent figures, images, patterns which organize a way of thinking. The repetition of a trope tends to reiterate or at least carry traces of it's historical meaning and function. They circulate as convention, but also as shorthand tactics for conveying meaning. Memes however were pitched by Dawkins as the cultural, semantic equivalent of a gene. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena.
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