Questionnaire

1.) How often do you buy or read Music Magazines?
Daily [ ] Weekly [ ] Monthly [ ] Yearly [ ]

2.) If so which Genre of magazine do you buy?
R&B [ ] Classical [ ] Rock [ ] Pop [ ] Hip hop/ Rap [ ]

3.)

Target Audience

The target audience for my magazine will be for some females but mainly males. As mostly malesare intrested in Hip-hop than men but the R&B part of the magazine will intrst and appeal to the reader. The age for my magazine will be from 16 + years of age, so people in their early teens and upwards. I made my magazine's advert's appealing to males by appealing to their love of gadgets and beautiful women. I based some of my key demographics on XXL as it's also a Hip-hop and R&B genre magazine aswell. I want my magazine to appeal to both men and women, i wll aim more for targeting the men.

Picture Comparison

· I posed in the same way as Jay Sean –
1. looking off to the left
2. mouth closed
3. eyes focused
4. only the right ear is showing.
· I also had limited resources so I couldn’t take the picture in front of a background like Jay Sean’s but a similar one that is plain white.

Chosen Font

This is the font i chose for my magazine that will be used throughout.

Possible Advert's

This was my first Advert i made for a Electric Guitar.
I used bright Bold fonts coloured red to stand out, and grab the readers attention.

I then changed it to advertise Headphones instead of a Guitar because Guitars are rock and roll and so shouldnt be in a hip-hop/rnb magazine so i advertised headphones which are more related to Hip-hop/rnb.

I looked at usual adverts in hip-hop/RnB magazines and they genericaly have beautiful models wearing or showing the product, which i have done i then used bright colours and a bold font to grab the readers attention. I then used the colour green for the price as green is ascoiated with money.

I also used an artist 'GG' that is mentioned in my magazine to advertise it so that the reader may want to buy it because GG has endorsed it.

Experimentation with Editing

These are pictures i took of myself and then edited them to see different effects and then choose how i could use them in my magazine.

This is a Cinematic effect, as if it is in the cinema.

This is a black and white effect.

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This is a Boost

Album Covers

These is my album covers i had to make for my article in my magazine. All these articles are going to be put on my article "The top 5 new artists of '09". I edited all my pictures on picnik.com. This will fit into a normal magazine as they have reviews and news of new artists and their albums.
This is my album for the fictional duo Azzamo. As it is an RnB album i made it look very inresting with the picture edited. I planned to call it 'Glass Windows' so i took a picture of the model with some glass windows in the background. I didnt manipulate this image except add text to it as the picture is exactly what i intended it to be.
This is the fictional album of Saff, I did not edit the picture as i planned the albums name to be 'white black' so i took a picture of her against a half white and black background. This is also a raw image apart from the text.

This is another fictional RnB singer called Jessikahhh. i made the picture black and white except for her haire and eyes which are peircing red. I planned to call the album 'Back to the joint' as if she went into prison and came out but is now back in, so i took a picture to look as if she was in jail behind some bars.

This is the fictional album for GG an RnB singer called 'Flash' so i decided to make the album look as if its moving but her face is still, and have the font in a font typical to RnB. I used a application on picnik to make it focus on the models face.

This is the fictional album for Hip-hop artist Caesar i took a picture of the model singing into a mic just like the ones found in music studio's to make it look authentic. i darkened the edges and boosted the colour of the very handsome model.