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Photographer Research

Pennie Smith

Pennie Smith (born in London) is an English photographer, known for having photographed several rock musicians. She specialises in black-and-white photography.

Smith attended Twickenham Art school in the late 1960s, studying graphics and fine art. With others, she collaborated with graphic designer Barney Bubbles and music journalist Nick Kent in producing Friendsmagazine from 1969 to 1972. In 1970 she designed the sleeve for the Pink Fairies debut release Never Never Land. Her first major photographic commission was to cover a 1970s Led Zeppelin tour. Smith went on to work at the NME as staff photographer until the early 1980s.

In her career, Smith has photographed some well-known rock musicians including: Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Iggy Pop, Sweet, The Clash, The Jam, The Slits, Siouxsie Sioux, Debbie Harry, U2, Morrissey, The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, Blur, Oasis, David Smith and The Strokes.

Kevin Cummins

Cummins studied photography in Salford. He started photographing rock bands in the mid-1970s in Manchester. Cummins had a 25-year association with the NME, including 10 years as their chief photographer. He has photographed numerous bands and musicians including Joy Division, Manic Street Preachers, The Clash, Sex Pistols, R.E.M., U2, Patti Smith, Marc Bolan, The Smiths, Roisin Murphy, Oasis, Foo Fighters, Michael Hutchence, The Stone Roses and Buzzcocks. His images have been seen as a contributing factor in the rise of the Madchester and Cool Britannia scenes.

Cummins was instrumental in establishing City Life, Manchester's what's on guide and was a founding contributor to The Face, the influential style magazine where he won an award for Magazine Cover of the Year.

Cummins's photographs have been used extensively in cinema and TV documentaries including Grant Gee's Joy Division and John Dower's Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop.

In November 2009, Kevin was awarded an Outstanding Contribution to Music Photography award by the music industry website: Record of the Day.

Audience reaserch through UK Tribes

I have completed the UK Tribes grouping quiz finding out that my target audience base are categorised under the "Alternative" tribe and as being "Hardcore" this is described as

"Hardcores have a serious affinity with a screaming genre of punk and the straight edge scene – wearing their distinctive tribal tats and turn-up look with pride.
The Hardcore joined the Tribes in 2012 in a flurry of slam dancing, and Straight Edge ethics; with X’s drawn on their tattoo-adorned hands. Today the Hardcore remain (especially in the west), but their Hipster-esque look (skinnies, band Ts) means they have come under similar threat from Aspirant adoption."

Although I do not believe that this is my exact desired target audience I do understand that this is a vauge description of a generic group of people commonly associated within my genre's stereotypical work and fanbase. I will adapt this throughout my magazine and try to implement these techniques within my magazine

Fanzine reaserch and review

A fanzine is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

The punk subculture in the United Kingdom spearheaded a surge of interest in fanzines as a countercultural alternative to established print media. The first and still best known UK 'punk zine' was Sniffin' Glue, produced by Deptford punk fan Mark Perry. Sniffin' Glue ran for 12 photocopied issues; the first issue was produced by Perry immediately following (and in response to) the London debut of The Ramones on 4 July 1976. Other UK fanzines included Blam!, Bombsite, Wool City Rocker, Burnt Offering, Chainsaw, New Crimes, Vague, Jamming, Artcore Fanzine, Love and Molotov Cocktails, To Hell With Poverty, New Youth, Peroxide, ENZK, Juniper beri-beri, No Cure,Communication Blur, Rox, Grim Humour, Spuno and Cool Notes. Of these, Tony Fletcher's Jamming was the most far reaching, becoming a nationally distributed mainstream magazine for several years before its demise.

In the UK, there were also fanzines that covered the local music scene in a particular town or city. Mainly prevalent in the 70s, and 80s, all music styles were covered, whether the bands were playing rock, punk, metal, futurist, ska or dance. Featured were local gig reviews and articles that were below the radar of the mainstream music press. They were produced using the technology of the time, i.e. typewriter and Letraset. Examples include Bombsite Fanzine (Liverpool 1977), Wool City Rocker (Bradford 1979 - 1982), City Fun (Manchester), 1984, Spuno (Bath 1980)  No Cure (Berkshire) and Town Hall Steps (Bolton) and more recently ''mono'' (fanzine), (Bradford) with many more across the country.

Style of music magazine is to adopt

Through researching the fanzine culture I have decided that my magazine will be adopting the Punk and Midwest Emo music genre. These genres are no longer prominently displayed throughout magazine culture creating a gap in the market appropriate for my project. In an attempt to keep my magazine fresh and original I wish to use elements relevant with fanzine culture, eg. close knit audience relationships, black and white/cheap printing colour schemes and a rustic and less produced feel to the artists and articles.

Magazine Research

I have used these three magazines as they show a gradual change in style of magazine, "Clash" I feel holds the perfect medium of text and content however "Discorder" shows a more prominent feature of text which works for the low budget free magazine style with colour image obviously costing lots for mass production. On the other hand "Structure" I feel has to little content, it is a specialist magazine so it is printed on high quality paper with extreme focus on quality over content however I feel that this version of stylising is not suitable for a music based magazine.

Magazine Research Double Page Spread: CLASH

Magazine Research Contents Page: CLASH

Magazine Research Front Cover: CLASH

Magazine Research Double Page Spread: Discorder

Magazine Research Contents Page: Discorder

Magazine Research Double Page Spread: Structure

Magazine Research Cover Page: Discorder

Magazine research Cover page: Structure

Artist Profile

Name: LaunchPad McQuack

Average Age: 17-18

Music Genre: Punk, experimental, Emo

Members: Fin, Sam, Ethan Smith

This being initially a solo project by Ethan Smith however with the release of their debut album the full band was formed. Heavily influenced by Iceage and other Punk bands like Marching Church, yet also inspired by more folk punk arrangements like Andrew Jackson Jihad and Jeff Rosenstock. This can tell through their composition as it incorporates many hardcore themes yet also focuses on the surreal lyrical and emotional connection through the music. Their clothing styles attract to the emo and punk genres which my magazine is based upon.

Colour Scheme

For my final product I have decided to use a black and white colour scheme accented with Blue. This will give a calm yet interesting and less mainstream approach to my magazine. Giving it a Fan-Zine stylisation

Evidence of working

Youtube Magazine Playlist

This playlist depicts the types of music to be included within my magazine.

Test Shots Link

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f7masouq7k46l38/AAAPzwS_6b6dnEKHOZll-_Cqa?dl=0

This is a link to my dropbox including all of my test shots for my magazines first draft. Some of these images I am very happy with and feel I should use for my final product. Out of the over 100 photos taken in this initial photoshoot I have picked and selected these specific images as I believe they show the true essence of my magazines end goal, to be creative and clean yet rustic and well loved.

Fanzine exemplar magazine reaserch