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Rosa has every reason to have a smug look on her face; after all she is the new acoustic sensation! At only 19 she is already heading for the musical spotlight.

Rosa strolls into the room like she’s just meeting up with an old friend. After infecting the population with her captivating songs I still don’t think she can quite grasp the reality of this dream come true.

Good Morning! Nice to see you today

Morning, good to see you too!

Wow, three late night gigs in a row, bet you haven’t been getting up this early in the morning lately then?

Oh god know! I didn’t think I’d be able to make it today, I’ve been that tired! Reminds me of getting up for college back in the days!

Have you been taking your music career a lot more serious recently?

Well, I’d like to say yes but truthfully, not really. I’m still the un-organised person I was before all this hit the scene! I mean at times I can be quite serious with important parts of my career but most of the time I’m just having a laugh and probably a bit annoying…

What is it like to have had this happened to you so fast?

I can’t really explain it ‘cause I can’t remember that well. It all happened to fast; I never really expected it to happen. It feels like only days ago I was singing round my bedroom for fun, now I’m singing round stage full of people singing my songs; it’s just the weirdest thing to experience.

So, what was it like being nominated, and winning as the best uprising artist 2011? Must have been a pretty big thing for you

Wow I can’t say in words how surprised I was when I was only nominated for it! I think you could tell how I felt when I ran on stage to collect the award! Can’t say I can remember much of it after the night I had afterwards! 

How are you feeling about your soon to be released album – ‘The World Comes Alive at Night’?

Well, I’m pretty excited but at the same time nervous.  It would be incredible if people love my album as much as they loved my singles, but oh well we’ll have to see how it goes.  

So I over heard some tale that you were going on tour this summer with the band One Night Only?

Haha, I wondered when this would come out! I think they found out I’m physically in love with them somehow and so asked me to tour with them. It’s going to be unbelievable for me.  I just can’t wait for it all to kick off in August.

Do you fancy telling us when the tour dates are to keep us out of our misery?

Well I would love to tell you, but to be honest I don’t know an exact date; but I know, its killing me too!

Do you have plans to be in any festival line ups this year?

So far it’s just Glastonbury! Which is great cause’ a lot of my favourite acts are going to be on the same stage as me.

Any future plans in the up-coming months you want to tell us about?

Apart from the events we’ve just talked about I can’t say there’s much cracking on in the next few months.  There is a small summer gig in Newquay on the 5^th of July I’ve been asked to play at so if your out that way don’t forget to come see me!

Is there any reason to the name of you album?

Well to me, the world does come alive at night! Lately that’s how it’s been for me and the band I’ve been with. We’ve been sleeping all day and partying all night long! It’s a bit different to a couple of years ago when I was bed by 10!

To a lot of people you seem the innocent type, do you agree?

I’d agree with that I like to keep myself to myself.  I know I’m not the kind of girl to get messed up with drink and drugs, but I do know how to have a good time and I wouldn’t say I’m the miss ‘goody goody’ everyone thinks I am.

You seem to have took all this fame pretty well, how do you cope?!

To have people recognise you and approach you is great, I love it. But there’s always the people that try to put you down by criticizing I don’t get them kind of people, if they’ve got a problem keep it to themselves cause I can’t be dealing with them!

I also heard that you’ve started on your next album as well? You’ve been busy lately haven’t you?!

Haha, I can randomly wake up with tunes and lyrics in my head. I have to write them down as soon as cause’ I don’t want to loose them! I haven’t really started my album just get I’ve just been gathering a few ideas together. It still has a lot of work to be put into it but I love the challenge.

Good luck with it all. Have you had much inspiration from other artists to help you along the way with you music?

Defiantly! I couldn’t have made the music I have without some of the old band I grew up listening too, thanks to my mum and dad! Frank Turner and Tiffany Page are pretty excellent singers too and influenced me on so many of my songs!

Finally, what do you have planned to do today?

Well, I was thinking of maybe doing some shopping, most of my clothes are lost cause’ of being on the road for such a long time! I’m hopeless at keeping things together. Then I think I might go sleep and prepare for another night out performing. Lives great for me at the moment!

Well, it sounds like your enjoying yourself! And I don’t blame you.

Thanks for the chat and good luck in the future.

Thank you for having me its been great.

Final

photo negatives Idea

To make my double page spread a bit different i liked the effects of layers so i scanned old photo negatives onto my computer and to not make them so bold played with the opacity tool on photo shop to make them look washed like. I did this also with various photos on my double page spread. i am pleased with he out-come and think it looks quite artistic and unique.

Photograph filters

This filter gives a stained effect. There is quite alot of the yellow picking up on the image and the sun-light is enhanced dramatically. The background has almost turned to a blue colour which looks quite unusual.

This filters gives the photograpgh a vintage blurred effect which i think is quite differnet, yet i do no think it will be suitable for my magazine because it makes the photo look dull and old.

This effect, like the first enhances the sun-light quite a lot. It has also made the colouring qutie pale which could work well the with the calm mellow feel to my magazine.

In this image i have the filter has been darkened around the sides and generally all over quite a dark deep filter. I do not know wether this style will fit well with my magazine, unless i use the tool on photoshop to make the opicaity less so it fades the pictures slightly. So it is not too bold for the magazine.

I really like this filter as the sun - light has been enhanced, like various others, yet it has a more summer feel o the image which is what i wanted for my magazine.

This filter also gives a vintage effect and has the darker edges but not quite as bold as the filter before. The image is also quite contrasted although parts are pastel like colours, comparing well with the darker shadowed areas.

In this image the filter has brightened the overall image. This works well to keep the natural picture but also the enhance the colours to make them bolder, for exampe the green grass and then blue sky. It give the effect of summer to the photograpgh.

This image has a hint of a black and white filter throughout, yet the colour is still coming through. There is quite a lot of contrast in the filter and again the light has been enhanced which has make the model look a lot more paler. I do not think it gives the right bold, bright effect for my magazine and is quite dull looking.

These last few images are very similar and all,  i think, work very well with the enhanment of sunlight to make the images brighter and noticable.

Edited Artist Profile

After having feedback on my mock up magazine i decided it would be best to develop a new artist profile as i wanted to make my magazine more grown up and realistic.

Age - 20
Name – Rosa Gilmore
Songs released – Tonights The Night 
Albums Released – Say It How You Mean It
Gigs/Concerts – Local concerts and also smaller venues in Manchester, Portsmouth, Leicestershire and Birmingham
Favourite band/artists & musical inspiration – Icarus Account, Frank Turner, Tiffany Page, Taylor Swift, One Night Only, Vampire Weekend.
Favourite Quotation –

Teachers Feedback

Front Cover -
- more emphasis on the masthead
- check spelling
- decided whether I want the guitar in the shot
- add a bar code
- better separation between the model and the background [ layer model onto background so you can change opacity of background ]


Double Page Spread -
- add more to article
- article is 'wish washy' and young tone to it


Contents -
- spelling
- make page numbers fit contents
- too much blank space, use pictures to fill space
- have numbers on pictures to relate to each other


I think I need to concentrate on the article to make it more grown up and more interesting for the reader.
I also think that it might be better to have just one page on the contents, therefore there will hopefully be not alot of un-filled space making it look bare. I think I will have to keep checking my work over and over to make sure I do not have small spelling mistakes in my work as it will look un-proffesional. 
I think the picture on my front cover could be changed to a more grown up pictures, because as i've looking through my work i do feel the magazine had a 'childish' tone to it, as my feedback has made me realise this.


The feedback I recieved has helped me a lot to look back on my work and change parts which do not work well.

Ideas

This is an idea I had for my contents. I realised my first idea would be quit difficult to do because there would be a lot of space and it would be hard to fill.

Although if I was to use this idea for my final contents page I think I should add some more images at the bottom so there wasn't so much open space.
I have still used the patterned flowers on my contents because for my double page spread i could use them again to relate back tot  he contents and make it all link up together. I have used the same colours as the pattern for the colours of my font. I have also added a picture similar to the front cover to make it all link together.

This is an idea I hd for the front cover. It is quite differnet to my first idea, yet I think this works better because there is more darker areas where i can add more coverlines and make them stand out more. I have again used the colours for the coverlines as the same of the pattern in my contents page to link them all together.