Original Images

I decided to use this image on my double page spread as Massi's looking straight into the camera. He looks as if he's got attitude as his arms are spread to the side. He's wearing the type of clothing a Hiphop/Rap artist would eg his snap back hat. His clothing also provides the colours that make up my magazine house style.  

I used this image on my front cover as Massi's looking straight into the camera, its a clear shot and the frame is suitable for my front cover, Massi's the focus. The clothing he's wearing also match up with the colours I have used to create the house style of my magazine. The props Massi is using eg the cold chain, sunglasses and snap back hat all have connotations of the artists who produce music for the genre Hiphop/Rap.

I used this Image to put in the corner of my contents page as it fits perfectly into this space. Again Massi is wearing the three props that connote Hiphop/Rap music. Which will make the genre of my magazine more recognizable.

Practice Images

 

Before I took my images of my Hiphop/Rap artist for my music magazine I tested the studio lighting by taking photographs of poeple in my class.

 

Shoot Ideas

Initial Ideas

Focus Group

Demographics

Demographics are a section of the human population, broken down by age, sex, income, education or occupation. A magazine’s Target Audience are based on these things, this shows the magazine editor how small or large their Target Audience is.

My Target Audience will consist of the working class, as my age range (teenagers and young adults 15-25) are in this class, as most teenagers are in education eg school, college, university or maybe a part time job/ apprenticeship. The interests of my Target Audience involve a lot of technology such as TV, radio, computers eg Facebook, Twitter, Youtube. Other interests could be food for example Mcdonalds, KFC, Burgerking. Clothing/Fashion is one of my Target Audience’s big interests, clothing such as gold chains, Nike, New York snap backs, baggy tshirts and sunglasses. All of these things I have shown in my Readers Profile.

This table of the grading system shows different social classes and their occupation. My target audience is based around D-Working Class, my target audience will want to read this magazine really often rather than just once a month, as they enjoy reading about the Hiphop/Rap genre ect. So for these reasons I will publish my magazine weekly, this will please my audience most. I will price my magazine at about £1.99 as this isn't that expensive, for my target audience as most of them are still in education so won't be willing to pay much more than this for a magazine.

Music Genre

The particular genre of music I have chosen to base my magazine on is Hiphop/Rap, which includes artist such as Drake, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay Z, Eminem, Wiz Khalifa and Kanye West. An example of a magazine that’s also based on this genre of music is XXL.

 My Moodboard includes brands such as Nike and New York snapbacks which the reader would probably own one or more items of these brands. A Brooklyn road sign and also basketball shirt, as I know some of the artists included in the Hiphop/Rap genre are from. One of my images shows the rapper Jay Z wearing a Brooklyn basketball shirt. Gold chains, which these type of artists wear as some of my images show. My Moodboard includes the American flag, as most of the music artist who will be in my magazine are from. I also included a number of different artists and Artists Logos from the Hiphop/Rap genre of music.