Front cover (rough draft)

This is the first rough draft for the front cover of my music magazine. I have not gone into too much detail, as it is just a basic layout and things will be taken away and added as I make improvements

Interview for Magazine

Kara Coleman Interview

Quick fire questions

  What is your favourite colour?

Red

  What is your favourite alcoholic drink?

Cheeky vimto

  What was your first pets’ name?

Chris, he was a goldfish

  Who is the last person you called?

My mum

  What is your favourite saying to live by?

“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”, Joseph Campbell

Would you rather

  Would you rather be too cold or too hot?

Too hot

  Would you rather have your mind serve as an iPod so you can listen to music whenever or watch your dreams on TV?

Watch my dreams on TV, any day!

  Would you rather know the future or wait and see?

Wait and see, otherwise it would change!

  Would you rather have your crush like you, or know who likes you at all times?

Know who likes me at all times, who wouldn’t want to know that?!

  Would you rather, only have 80s clothes or 80s hairstyles?

80s clothes! I love all that stuff!

Interview

So Kara, two years into your solo career, how’s it going?

Yeah its good thanks! So different from being in a band, because obviously before I would tour with the guys, but it’s been fun.

So what happened with the band?

I guess we just decided it was time. We had been together since we were 15, and after 8 years together, we decided to end on a high.

Do you still see the guys?

Yeah of course! I see them all at least four or five times a year! We all grew up together so all of our families are really close.

Who would you say you’re the closest to? It was rumoured that you were dating Dan, want to shed some light?

You can’t ask me that! They’re all like brother to me, which means no, me and Dan never dated!

Whatever you say! So, you’ve had three top 10 albums, 6 number ones, and two international tours, all in the space of two years! How do you do it?

I don’t even know myself to be honest! I think if you have a real drive and passion to do something, then you do it, and for me, it’s the music .And also the people! You never know who’s going to pop up next and I love waiting to see who I meet on my travels!

Speaking of travels, where are you off to after this?

Home! I can’t wait to go and catch up on the jungle!

Haha! I won’t tell you who won then! Where are you touring next?

We’re touring all over the USA next, I can’t wait!

So Kara, where is your favourite place to tour?

Everyone always ask this! Hmm, obviously everywhere you go, the crowds are different, but I’d have to say that I love touring Britain the most! They’re the hardcore fans that knew me from when I was 15.

So what’s your favourite thing about performing?

That’s so hard, but I really love it, when I’m getting into a song, and I just stop for a moment, and realise that that people are singing along with me! It’s like, whoa!

It must be amazing, I can’t even imagine. So do you ever get nervous before you go on stage?

I guess, to some extent I’m always nervous, especially if I’m waiting around to go on stage, but usually my adrenaline kicks in the minute I hear people and all I can focus on is performing

Do you have any warm ups, or lucky items or anything like that?

I do have a lucky friendship bracelet my friend from back home gave me that I wear for every performance.

Do you believe it helps?

This might sound really silly, but one time I left it in my hotel room and that night, I fell off strange and broke my ankle, so it’s safe to say I’m suspicious and won’t be risking it again!

That night when you fell off stage in Manchester, a fan caught you, and you were then pictured with him after, and again recently, is there anything you want to tell us?

There is nothing going on, we see each other whenever I’m in Manchester and we’re good friends, but that’s as far as it goes

Okay, so that night, you were advised against it, but you carried on your concert, what made you decide to do that?

I didn’t really give it a second thought really, I was just like, if these people can be bothered to come and see me, then who am I to cancel halfway through?

Okay, so that last thing, is Reading. It has been rumoured, that you are headlining this year…

I guess you’ll have to wait and see…

Contents Page Pictures

Here are some of the first contents page pictures I have taken. I haven't picked which picture I want to use yet, or how i want each picture to be edited. I will still be taking some pictures of other people to add to the contents page to make it more realistic and will be taking the pictures for the front cover and double page spread on Monday.

Magazine Pictures

Here are some different pictures that I took for my magazine. As you can see, I tried to get a variety of different poses and postions. I also tried different camera shots such close-ups, medium close-ups and wide shots. I also played around with the lighting to get the best possible pictures. I shot these pictures uisng a NIKON D3000, this helped me produce more pression pictures than using a normal digital camera which I used for my preliminary task.