Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Q1
Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Q2
Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
This is a gif that I created to represent the social group that my magazine was directed towards. I gathered this information based on my understanding of the 'indie' genre, by searching the indie hashtag on popular blogging sites like tumblr pinterest.
via GIPHY
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
This is a gif that I created to represent the social group that my magazine was directed towards. I gathered this information based on my understanding of the 'indie' genre, by searching the indie hashtag on popular blogging sites like tumblr pinterest.
via GIPHY
Q4
Question 4
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Question 4 from jesscarney1
Above is my evaluation for question 4. I have also tried to create a visual representation of my target audience (young people interested in indie music) by making a gif on giphy. I have used multiple images that my audience research concluded represented indie. These images include representations of iconic indie bands, indie fashion, vinyl and gigs.
Q6
Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Q7
Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Q7 from jesscarney1
production 1 inc photos, interviews and article
photos:
interview:
What inspired you to become a musician?
What is your favourite song that you have written?
What musical influences inspire the band?
What's the band dynamic - (what's the different personalities of the group)
How did you choose your name?
Do you have any interesting tales from any gigs that you've played?
How did you meet the other band members?
How long have you played guitar, and any advice to those beginning themselves?
Have you ever played any tours and if so where did it take you?
Have you ever played any disappointing gigs?
Have you ever made any mistakes whilst on stage? If so, how did you manage it?
How long has the band been going for?
Do you have any preference in guitar when it comes to gigging?
Are you close to your band members?
What is the best experience for you about being in a band?
Article:
As I walk into the dimly lit bar of the ‘Live Rooms’ in Chester, the pre-gig excitement is tangible. A pandemonium of teenagers, young adults and hipsters wait, adjacent to the stage, beers in hand. Fluorescent lights illuminate the tenebrosity of the raised platform, anticipating the bands arrival. After a short line-check, the Seegulls begin with their debut single ‘The right light’. The music erupts, and melodies begin to flow between the tides of monotony. The iconic voice of lead singer ‘Kitchen’ is distinctive against the mellifluous spectrum of guitar chords and scales. A complex arrangement of notations accompanied by a distinguishable riff causes the crowd to expand, and passersby of the bar enter with curious expressions. Having been to many of the band’s gigs before, I can see how rapidly they have improved. The Seegulls are now poised and self assured, having obtained the confidence of a professional band. After a successful gig, I manage to catch up with lead guitarist Matty Carney, who reveals the dynamic behind the band.
What inspired you to become a musician?
My family is extremely musically orientated, so I imagine that it originates from there. Growing up I would watch my dad play gigs in his band and my older brother play guitar, and I knew that I wanted to produce music too. My first instrument was bass, as my friend’s band urgently needed a bass player for a gig they had later on in the week. I learnt all the songs quickly and was able to fill in for them, despite never having picked up a bass before. From there on I started learning other instruments – drums, guitar, violin etc.
Your recent EP has been incredibly successful. What is your favourite song from it?
My favourite song is ‘Reach Out’, as I have been holding onto that chord sequence for years until I finally felt it was at a point where we could do something really creative with it. What musical influences have inspired the band? We’re inspired by the most prominent indie acts in the music industry such as the libertines, the strokes, the maccabees, the smiths and catfish and the bottlemen. Lyrically we are really inspired by the wit of Alex Turners lyrics, and we also love the energy and movement of the punk scene.
What is the band dynamic?
I feel as though I am the most focused when it comes to band practice, I tend to keep the band focused and on track. I’d say that Kitchen has the greatest creative output, he tends to think up the ideas behind our sound. Cash is the joker of the group, and maintains a light atmosphere when we get pre-gig nerves.
interview:
What inspired you to become a musician?
What is your favourite song that you have written?
What musical influences inspire the band?
What's the band dynamic - (what's the different personalities of the group)
How did you choose your name?
Do you have any interesting tales from any gigs that you've played?
How did you meet the other band members?
How long have you played guitar, and any advice to those beginning themselves?
Have you ever played any tours and if so where did it take you?
Have you ever played any disappointing gigs?
Have you ever made any mistakes whilst on stage? If so, how did you manage it?
How long has the band been going for?
Do you have any preference in guitar when it comes to gigging?
Are you close to your band members?
What is the best experience for you about being in a band?
Article:
As I walk into the dimly lit bar of the ‘Live Rooms’ in Chester, the pre-gig excitement is tangible. A pandemonium of teenagers, young adults and hipsters wait, adjacent to the stage, beers in hand. Fluorescent lights illuminate the tenebrosity of the raised platform, anticipating the bands arrival. After a short line-check, the Seegulls begin with their debut single ‘The right light’. The music erupts, and melodies begin to flow between the tides of monotony. The iconic voice of lead singer ‘Kitchen’ is distinctive against the mellifluous spectrum of guitar chords and scales. A complex arrangement of notations accompanied by a distinguishable riff causes the crowd to expand, and passersby of the bar enter with curious expressions. Having been to many of the band’s gigs before, I can see how rapidly they have improved. The Seegulls are now poised and self assured, having obtained the confidence of a professional band. After a successful gig, I manage to catch up with lead guitarist Matty Carney, who reveals the dynamic behind the band.
What inspired you to become a musician?
My family is extremely musically orientated, so I imagine that it originates from there. Growing up I would watch my dad play gigs in his band and my older brother play guitar, and I knew that I wanted to produce music too. My first instrument was bass, as my friend’s band urgently needed a bass player for a gig they had later on in the week. I learnt all the songs quickly and was able to fill in for them, despite never having picked up a bass before. From there on I started learning other instruments – drums, guitar, violin etc.
Your recent EP has been incredibly successful. What is your favourite song from it?
My favourite song is ‘Reach Out’, as I have been holding onto that chord sequence for years until I finally felt it was at a point where we could do something really creative with it. What musical influences have inspired the band? We’re inspired by the most prominent indie acts in the music industry such as the libertines, the strokes, the maccabees, the smiths and catfish and the bottlemen. Lyrically we are really inspired by the wit of Alex Turners lyrics, and we also love the energy and movement of the punk scene.
What is the band dynamic?
I feel as though I am the most focused when it comes to band practice, I tend to keep the band focused and on track. I’d say that Kitchen has the greatest creative output, he tends to think up the ideas behind our sound. Cash is the joker of the group, and maintains a light atmosphere when we get pre-gig nerves.
How did you choose
the name ‘the Seegulls’
One time before the band were fully established, Kitchen and
I were busking in Chester. Kitchen has a massive fear of birds due to an
incident when he was younger, and long story short, we ended up getting
attacked by a flock of seagulls. I guess it originates from there!
Do you have any
interesting tales from any gigs that you have played?
Last year we played a Christmas gig at the Arts Club in
Liverpool. At the end of our set, a gigantic mosh pit had formed, and Cash ,
our lead guitarist, decided to throw his Gibson Les Paul into the crowd.
Unfortunately it hit the head of a teenage girl and she ended up in A&E
with 19 stitches in her forehead. We managed to apologise before she got in the
ambulance though, so I don’t feel too bad.
How did you meet the
other band members?
We all met on our uni course, as popular music students in
Chester.
How long have you
played guitar, and do you have any advice to those starting themselves?
I’ve played guitar for 6 years now and my best advice is to keep
at it, and yeah it’s cool to take inspiration from other guitarists, but the
real innovators are doing the opposite.
I understand that you
did a UK tour recently. Where did that take you?
It was a great experience that took us up north, to
Sunderland and to the midlands of Nottingham over the course of a week. It was
a great experience that I would definitely recommend if the opportunity ever
arises.
Have you ever played
any disappointing gigs?
There’s always going to be the quiet gigs that draw in a small
crowd, but ultimately there are no specific gigs, as Scott Pilgrim says, a gig
is a gig is a gig! We played more of them in the beginning, but there isn’t a
band that hasn’t, and without those you wouldn’t have a line in which to draw
under what a good gig and what a bad gig is.
Have you ever made
any mistakes on stage? If so, how did you manage it?
I’ve had a few incidents in which my guitar strap has been
twisted and so the guitar fell off, that’s always embarrassing! Hitting pedals
accidentally is another, hitting a stutter effect when you were after a reverb
is always an obvious one, but I suppose it’s my own fault for wearing Doc
Martens on stage! Often I just pick up and continue casually, the less of a
deal you make out of it the better.
What has been your
favourite experience in the band?
One of the best experiences was when we got played on Radio
1 for the first time, I remember being in the cafe of our University building
and Kitchen coming up to me and saying “so Matty... we got played on radio 1
last night”. I can recall just sitting there for a minute in silence just
taking it all in, and so he proceeded to return to the lecture in which he
walked out on upon hearing the news!
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