Process of Making Double Page Spread

Process of Making; Double page Spread

Media article- restless natives

Restless Natives are and new upcoming band that have recently excelled in fame. There new album ‘Yes No Maybe’ was a hit in its first two weeks of release and their gigs are sold within days. The band are known for their slow but harsh approach to rock music, their work is very reminiscing of the likes of classical rock artists such as The Ramones and Pink Floyd. The band is rapidly bringing the sounds of the 70s back to the present. The band could the start of a new era in music which is an exciting step for the band to take so early in their music career.

Interview with lead vocalist of Restless Natives- Rebecca Cain

So how does it feel to have your album be a hit?

Oh gosh. I am literally speechless. I can’t believe our luck. As an artist when making and album there’s always this thought in the very back of your mind that no one’s going to like it or that no one’s going to even buy it. [laughs]. I know it’s a slightly weird thought to have but the others and I see these experiences as a way better ourselves in what we’re doing. And in this case I guess it worked [laughs]

What about the fame side of things how does it feel knowing there are people out there that love the work you’re doing?

[smiles] I can’t begin to tell how thankful we all are toward these people who attend our gigs, buy our album. You have just help make a group of people’s dreams become a reality. I feel like bursting into tears when I see a crowd of people singing along and dancing to our music. I feel like if I did people would think im kinda lame [chuckles]. But it is amazing.

And when you write songs and make music. Well what to you do to produce a solid final product?

Well most of the inspiration for writing the song itself would come from the experiences of whoever would be writing in the band. This can be a joint effort from the rest of us or just the individual. But the music side involves the whole band. We do sometimes sit there for hours sometimes we spend days in the studio just playing chords and notes until we have a eureka! Moment which is usually when we have found the instrumental for a song. Not an easy process and sometimes a tiring one but it is worth it in the end but we do love what we do so it is an enjoyable process.

Im intrigued to know where your inspiration comes from, in terms of your sound. Because you have a very distinctive and unique sound to your music. If I say so myself one I haven’t heard in years. 

[laughs] yeah,  well we take inspiration from the older generation of rock. The likes of Led zeppelin, Pink Floyd, sonic youth, to name a few [chuckles].  The first album we first listened to together was ‘Dark side of the Moon’ by Pink Floyd and from then on we were hooked at the time we were about thirteen and we thought it was amazing. My dad is an intense record collector and kept his old records and Vinyl player in our attic. He worked on Saturdays so once he left we’d  take them play then full volume and put them back as they were before he left. Oh god he’ll go mad when he sees this [laughs] sorry dad.

So you are yet to play at the House of Blues. Lots of legendary artists have played there. How does it feel to be amongst them?

Oh wow. I don’t think we can begin to compare ourselves to the people who have played there before us [laughs]. It is a great honour for use to play there it’s been our dream to play there since we were young and for it to actual become a reality, it is frickin awesome. And how does it feel? Well im hella exited but if you want honesty, im also quiet nervous [laughs] I mean I don’t want to mess it up.

And what is next for Restless Natives?

Well hopefully a career {laughs]. No, we would like to bring out some new albums. We are currently working on one now so hopefully in a couple of years we can release it. We begin our tour as of June next year. Tickets are on sale in October and well we hope carry on making people happy.

It was an absolute pleasure talking to you Rebecca and good luck with your tour and upcoming projects.

Restless Natives: Tour- Tickets on sale from October 10^th

Purchase tickets at: www.RestlessNatives/tickets.com

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for my double page spread i set out to create a take inspiration from the old school 70s rock magazine double pages as i feel that the style fits in really well with my overall the as well as my other pages  

i decided to do a split page for my double page i feel this works well with the rock them as i adds a dark, slightly sinister, grungy look the the page.   

for my image i decided to place it in the top left corner so that it is the first thing you see upon opening the page.

i decided to make the image itself look worn. i did this to stick with the 70's rock them. i think the colour also adds an element of edginess to the image (linking to my theme [rock]). 

 to do this effect i used the transfer to 'old fashion photo' to get the worn vintage effect. 

for the the written sections of my double page i decided to stick with the same colour scheme i have used throughout my magazine. i did this so that it is relevant to the rest of my magazine and so that it works with the rest of my pages. 

i also decided to play around with the lay out of my article as it is influenced by the previous rock magazine covers i have looked (old magazines). 

when looking at the page i noticed that the white over pink didn't look that good so i decided to change it to a much lighter pink. i think this works better as it has a very old school rock feel to it and i like how     the two pages contrast each other. the left being the more lighter vibrant side with hint of dark to the other side being the dark with hints of light. this also as a slightly fun element to the page linking to music content in side the magazine.

The final thing i did was to position the section so that they are in line.

photoshoot 2

Double Page Spread Photo shoot;


For this photo shoot i wanted to take a more grungy approach to my images. when preparing for the photo shoot i had to think what would work best for my theme and consider that my magazine is a rock magazine. i also chose my location very carefully for this shoot. i went to a churchyard to take these photos. the location was worn, dark and looked abandoned. this catered to the more punky, metally rock aspect of my theme. 

For my photo shoot i had prepared my model to dress in much darker clothing with darker make up to correspond with the background.

Models T-shirt

Graphic T-shirt; The t-shirt corresponds to the theme as it has a rock bands graphics on it. 




        











Dark make-up; The darkness of the make-up correlates with my theme as it adds a element of grunge to the images. i also like how the make up looks in the image because it is very reminiscent of make-up from 1970s/80s rock magazines which is good because that is approach i wanted to take with my magazine as i have already taken a lot of 
                                inspiration from 70's and 80's rock magazines and incorporated some of 
                                there ideas of colour schemes, composition and fonts into my own work.

           

Double page Spread research

Double Page Spread Research

 I decided to look at much more old fashioned example of exiting                   double page spreads because for my magazine i am looking at rock as a overall theme, so that includes indie rock, metal rock etc. however in a visual aspect i wanted to focus on a more old school rock theme. (70s,80s).
   
                          
what i notice when looking at these
pages is that they layout the sections of the page quite spaciously. they also keep the background of the pages very busy, with images and bold writing giving it a quite chaotic look (adds to them rock)
the lay out of the interview is fairly similar. they all pretty much have the text strip going down the page which is simple but it looks really effective with the rest of the page which is generally quite busy. they all also use quite mundane colours. there not too vibrant. however i think colour would work quite well with the theme.    

                             

i then started to look at existing pages that use hints of colour. i think the colour works as it makes the page stand out a lot more and makes it a lot more eye catching.