FIRST DRAFT OF Initial Ideas- Main Task- Music Magazine

Initial ideas- Main Task- Music Magazine

Ø  Name- connotation?: Blowout

Ø  Target audience: 15-25

Ø  Main genre of music to focus on: Hip-Hop

Ø  My strap line/mission statement: Hip-Hop Don’t Stop

Ø  Real magazine, it’ll be similar to and how: XXL Magazine, similar colours such as having a black and white front cover and a red masthead with black cover lines.

Ø  Suitable Publisher from my Magazine and why?: XXL because it’s popular amongst Hip-Hop culture

Ø  Describe the House style: The main image is going to be in black and white; however the masthead and the main cover lines are going to be in red, the rest of the cover lines and the strap lines are going to be in black. The background of the front cover is going to stay white. The typical style would be giving direct eye contact and

Ø  Adjectives I would associate with my magazine:

Ø  Regular Features in my magazine:  

3)  LIFE IS GOOD Kimberly may have begun her career as a rapper, but by expanding her scope, her career might come true.

5) ADRIANA Baddest in the Street, Baddest in the Game.

11) TOP 10 HOTTEST SONGS OF NOVEMBER

17) ‘I AM KIMBERLY' the Hottest Hip Hop Honey

23) DRAKE HIP HOP’s new religion

1)  YMCMB back in New York

4)  RIHANNA on the top of the world

7)  Worst celebrity breakups

15) BEYONCE We got behind the scenes with Beyonce in the studio

18) JASON DERULO SHOWS OFF HIS NEW GIRLFIREND “Happy with my girl”

27) RIHANNA and CHRIS BROWN Topless Tweets...

32) SWAGGA JACK Lil' Wayne, Kanye West, Jay Z and T.I

37) DIDDY Too big for Hip-Hop?

42) AMBER ROSE Takes Miami

49) Grammy Awards See the winners of this event

50) Upcoming events what’s inside the next issue?

Ø  Range of contents available in my magazine: there will be some celebrity gossips, there will also be interviews with celebrities such as Adriana, and there will be photos of celebrities and quotes from celebrities as well, such as Jason Derulo “Happy with my girl”.

Ø  Real artists and bands that would be appropriate in it:  YMCMB, Rihanna, Beyonce, Jason Derulo, P Diddy, Kanye West, Jay Z, Chris Brown.

Ø  Name of 2 made up artists that I’ll refer to: Kimberly and Adriana

Ø  People I could use as Models for the photo shoot of these made up artists: I could use Rhianna Miller as Kimberly and Maiya Markovic as Adriana.

Ø  How I will represent these artists in my photos: Adriana will be the main celebrity as she will be represented on the front cover and she will be interviewed on the double page spread, and Kimberly will be represented in my contents page.

Ø  Type of language I will use that suitable for target audience: I will be using slang words such as ‘Da Street’ and using the word street gives ideas that its Hip-Hop.

Ø  Other ideas I have that I could apply: I will make the front cover image black and white, but I will change the colour of the models lips into red, so they match the masthead and so the picture stands out. I will also place headphones on the ‘o’ of the, masthead (Blowout) to make it look like my genre- hip hop.

Ø  Computer applications I will use in product:

·         Photoshop

·         GIMP

·         InDesign

·         Microsoft Word

·         Microsoft Publisher

·         Portrait Professional

·         Blogger

·         DaFont

Ø  Reference to other media platform used by my magazine: Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, Twitter