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Center Name: Norbury Manor BEC
Center Number: 14343
Candidate Name: Holly Hawkins-Lucraft
Candidate Number: 1076
Unit: G321

Final Front Cover

Final Contents Page

Final Double Page Spread

Evaluation: Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation Question 7 from HollyRosa98

Evaluation: Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation: Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation: Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation: Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation: Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation: Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Links of Front Cover, Contents and DPS

This is a Prezi presentation I created talking about the links between my magazine Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread.

DPS Layout

Artist Interview

This is my interview:

Rising star, Ava Garcia (21), has been a main focus in the alternative music scene in recent months with her smash hit debut album ‘Splinters’ that soared to number 1 in December. Critics are describing her as ‘a passionate and fierce young woman’ as well as her career ‘having a huge impact on the industry and could change the face of music in the next few years’.The release of your album last November created quite a stir, was this expected at all?

No way did I ever think that my debut album would actually sell well or get recognized. I’ve just got lucky, most artists have to release one or two albums before they get anywhere, but somehow I managed to skip this process which I am extremely thankful for.

Okay so judging by this recognition, you’ve had to adapt to your new life of being ‘famous’, has this in any way changed the way you do things?

Hell no! I’m not someone who changes easily, I mean it’s hard to adapt sometimes to being followed by the paps, but otherwise I still go about my usual daily routine if I have a day off and I always used to tell myself that fame isn’t allowed to change me if I ever get to that.

Now this album has had two singles released from it so far, both of which got to number 1, so we were just wondering what the meaning behind the songs are?

Well most of my album is focused on love but I’m not a romantic so there isn’t anything cringe worthy or cheesy in it, most of it is focused on the pain of it and how love can twist a person and drive them crazy. There are some songs though that are about issues such as death and suicide, because I have known people that this has happened to, and I find it is an important subject and wanted to write about it to make more people aware of the pain it causes as well as why people do these things.

I can imagine this is quite a pressing focus for you. So moving on, you’re going on tour next month, exciting? What have you got in store for your fans?

Yes, I can’t wait! I’m not going to lie though, I am incredibly nervous too, I’ve never performed directly to people who want to see me, I’ve only done TV shows, such as BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards, so it’ll probably be terrifying but hopefully I’ll warm up to it. I’m not the sort of person that wants to have a massive production when I perform so my shows are going to be quite laid back, it’s just my preference I guess plus I don’t think my fan base are into crazy shows either, well I hope so anyway!

We thank you so much for taking the time to come and do this interview with us today!

Thank you for having me!

Ava’s album is out now in stores and on iTunes, you can still get tickets to your UK tour too, if I’m correct?

Yes you can, they’re being sold on ticketmaster.com and gigsandtours.com, so it would be awesome if you could all come along and support me. I'm really looking forward to it so I hope to see you there!

It’s safe to say that Ava is one of the most sincere artists we’ve ever spoke to here at Hybrid magazine! She happily answered everything we asked her about and genuinely seemed happy to speak to us, not what we always get from artists, it was an absolute pleasure to have her. Like she said, you can buy her album for £10.99 on iTunes as well as in stores.

What it looks like on my magazine:

DPS Image Decisions

This is a 'wideo' I created to show the images I'm using on my Double Page Spread and the reasons for my choices.

DPS Standfirst

DPS Market Research

Magazine Interviews:

This is a slideshare I created breaking down two Kerrang! magazine interviews.

Dps research from HollyRosa98


Video Interviews:

This interview compared to the magazine ones is a lot more question and answer style even though the questions being asked aren't actually heard, so it's more like the band talking to an audience which I like. This style of interview is good because it makes it seem more personal for the audience watching, it's also not too formal therefore making it a tad boring, which is also often seen in Alternative Rock magazine interviews. 

This interview with All Time Low is most similar to how I'm planning to set my interview out - the interviewer is asking the questions and the artists responds. It's also extremely laid back and there's some swearing and crudeness which is often seen in this genre. I also like this interview because it directly links to music because the interview is mainly about one of their sets they performed that had a thunderstorm throughout.