Shot list

Front Cover:

Medium long shot of model. Angle of gaze will be straight at the reader. The model will be wearing black clothing to match the colour scheme, also the black clothing will be portraying a mysterious look for the model. The special affects for the model will be, the background blurred and faded with a dark colour.

Contents Page:
Long shot of artist placed on the left of the page with the model pointing straight at the camera lens. Second shot will be placed in the centre of the page places in a box; this image will be of the main model in a different pose.

Double page spread:
The first shot will be of the main model looking straight at the camera. The special affects for this shot will and image of the artist faced to his right on the right hand side of the normal shot with his arm out and another image of the artist faced to the left hand on the left hand side of the artist with his arm out. The second image will be on the other side of the page were the artist will be looking at himself in the mirror but the mirror image will have a smile on its face.

Flat plan designs

For my Front cover, I've chosen to make the artist pose as T.I has for Vibe magazine because when I came across this pose it seemed that T.I had a lot of authority and seemed like he was the boss. The colour scheme I have chosen for the magazine is Blue, Black and White. I've chosen this because I feel the colours are more masculine and also in normal Rap and RnB magazines the main colour scheme is Red, Black and White, therefore I wanted to create something different.

 

For my double page spread I want to create the artist in a mirror image because my article will be based on 'the man in the mirror'. I've chosen my article to be about this because I feel that a life of a music artist had two sides, one were the artist is serious and the other when the artist is having fun.

Magazine Names

The magazine names I have chosen are:

• Sensational
• On Top
• Rap & Blues
• The whole bit

Market Research evaluation

For every magazine there should be a competition mentiond because this strategy attracts the audience to buy the magazine.

Market Research evaluation

As we have to make a double page spread for our magazine, The audience look forward to reading the article about the main artist when they buy the magazine and therefore I have came up with this question as part of my essay because an article for a magazine should be made so that the audience that buy it enjoy the aspects of the double page spread.

Market Research evaluation

As researching through magazines such as Vibe, XXL, Respect I started looking at how the models have portrayed themselves to the camera and through this I created this question as part of my survey.

Market Research evaluation

I researched into magazines that related to the genre I chose for my music magazine. The options given for this question relate to colour schemes that other well known magazines have used.

Market Research evaluation

The first question I asked for my market research for my magazine was what genre des the audience listen to. From my research I could see that the majority that I surveyed listen to RnB, Hip Hop and Rap.

Reader Profile

James Williams is a 17 year old boy who has been and bought up in the rough areas of South London. James favourite type of music is RnB and Rap music. James has been brought up in a high crime area were the use of drugs is common. Rap music inspires his lifestyle because seeing crime is daily for him and has very enthusiastic in making money, which relates to the genre of rap. James is also likes the Rnb genre because a lot of Rap artist feature Rnb artist in their music and this adds a soft sense to the music. His hobbies are boxing and football that he does most days and likes to challenge his friends to matches on the weekend. James also likes to go to the cinemas to stay in touch with the latest action and comedy movies that have been released. James likes to dress up street wise and likes to wear jewellery such as chain necklaces. James also likes to listen to artists such as Lil Wayne, Drake, Konan and Krept, Trey songz, Chris Brown and many more artists in these categories, he thinks he can relate to the music in his everyday life and says that in his area these types of genres are really popular to listen to.

MARKET RESEARCH QUESTIONNAIRES

I chose to do these questions because after doing reserch I found out that these questions are asked on average to audiences as a tool of market research from magazine companies.

Magazine Semiotics

I have chosen this magazine cover because this magazine relates to genre I have chosen for music magazine.

The visual semiotics for this magazine cover are that the model Eminem has been related to the marvel comic character the punisher. Eminem has been shown to be wearing the punishers clothing and also his angle of gaze is shown to be looking straight at he reader and also the expression on Eminem’s face relates to the marvel comic character because Eminem looks angry and looks like he is on a rampage to kill. I think Eminem has been related to the comic character the punisher because this issue of XXL was made on the long awaited return of Eminem from his absence from music for a couple of years, and on his return he made a song which conquered the US and UK charts, Therefore this portraying Eminem as the punisher to other music that is in competition to him.

The semiotics that portray the words on the front cover show that the word 'Eminem' is in the colour yellow. This showing the word Eminem to stand out. Also the colour that has been used relates to the colour of the fire used in the picture on the front cover. The use of using the colour yellow for Eminem shows that Eminem is fire and therefore showing that he can’t be stopped because he is dangerous on the mic. Also the punisher is shown to be in the colour white, this showing that it is not as important as Eminem. This is also showing that Eminem is more deadly than the punisher as he has been portrayed on the front cover.



My Music Magazine Market Research questions

What sort of genre do you normally listen to?

• Hip Hop
• RnB
• Rap/Grime
• Rock
• Drum and Bass
• Heavy Metal
• Indie

What colour scheme should be used for the magazine?

• Black, Yellow, White
• Black, Red, White
• Black, Grey, White
• Green, Black, Yellow

What type of model pose attracts you as a reader for a magazine?

• Eye contact straight at the reader
• Eye contact away from the reader
• One model only
• Two models

What sort of article do u enjoy reading?

• History of the artist
• Present and future of the artist
• Artist persona

What Sort of competition do you like?

• Signed album
• V.I.P tickets to concerts
• Holidays in the Mediteranean