Costume and Make-Up ideas

Juwanne (Front Cover Artists):
Clothes - Black Trousers, Black Top, Gold Ring, Big Black Puffa Jacket
Hair -  Cornrows

Dila (Contents Page):
Clothes - Crop Top (any Colour), High Waist Jeans,
Jewellery - Chains, Body rings
Make-Up - dark make up heavy eyes
Hair - Straight and Out

Sabrina (contents Page/Front Cover):
Clothes - Crop Top, Midi Skirt (Loose to prove women don't have to be sexualised in Hip-Hop and R&B music)
Hair - Cornrowed one side, the other side out and curly.
Make-Up - Bright lipstick, foundation, medium eye make-up

Ryan (Double Page Spread):
Clothes - Black Top, Blue Jeans, Black and other coloured Trainers, Black Jacket
Jewellery - Earing, New Era Hat

Clint (Double Page Spread):
Clothes - Black Top, Black Jeans, Black Jacket, Black Timberlands
Jewellery - Grills on one tooth, Chain, New Era Hat

Sara (Double Page Spread):
Clothes - Black Jeans, Black Top, Black Leather Jacket, White and Black Air Max 90's
Jewellery - Big Hooped earings, Chain, Watch Ring, Bracelet Chain
Make-Up - Heavy Eye Make-Up,  Nude Lipstick

Plan for front cover of my music magazine

My Cover will have the colour scheme black white and gold. Although I have not added colour to my sketch, My model is will be wearing all black, with a gold ring on. The Master head will be either black or gold. The background will be black, with white sell lines and for the sell line about the double page spread and feature artist will be in gold. A lot of the text that will be on my cover will use simplistic language and slang, as this will appeal to my target market. To show that it relates to them and links to their lives.

My Cover Sketch

The reason for this is that in majority of the R&B and Hip-Hop magazines i have researched had the colour scheme gold black and white or Red black and white. Or red black white and gold. Due to this cyclical theme, I chose to use the scheme that my target market liked:

As shown by the graph my target market chose black, gold and white. This is why I will be using these colours in my magazine. As it is what my audience want. 

My model will be looking into the camera, to break down the 4th wall and entice my audience. My model will be posing with his hand on his face to show his a thinker and that he has confidence in himself. 

As you can see his hair makes him look thuggish and relatable to the target market of adolescence, as he looks like his from a working class background, which majority of my target market will likely be. He looks youngish and looks as if he is from 'the ends' such as hackney, Tottenham and so on. This may help my audience connect with the magazine more. Compared to me placing a 30 year old man, who is dressed in a suit, who looks like he is from a middle class background with a high class job. 

The name of my cover artist will be 'J-Quik' this is because J resembles his name and 'Quik' means fast, witty man. Which will link to the fact his a rap artist, so raps fast and is witty with his raps. The album name he which will be promoted on the cover will be 'Imperial' this is due to most rap artist feeling that they are part of a secluded empire, that is apart from the rest of the world. As many youths grow up they can also feel this way, that only youths understand youths. So creating an album based an empire may make them feel apart of the rap empire, thus relating to my target market on a level. 

The name for my double page spread artists will be 'Subliminal' as it is defined as: (of a stimulus or mental process) below the threshold of sensation or consciousness; perceived by or affecting someone's mind without them being aware of it. This again link to the type of power their music will have on the listeners. 

As my sketch shows the barcode, price, date and the issue number will be clearly shown. As most magazines try to hide this feature. But i feel that making it clear will be beneficial to the consumer as they don't have to go all the way to the till to find out the price of the magazine.

The title of my magazine will also be bold as i want the customers to clearly see the magazine name, as that can be advertisement in itself and also once people see the name more frequently they will be able to make links and hopefully become more interested in the magazine as they see online adverts of the website and also social media sites, such as youtube, Vimeo, Snapchat, Facebook, twitter etc.

Pitching My Magazine Idea

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My Font ideas - drawing

Trends Research

Choosing a Name for Music Magazine

Choosing a name for my magazine was harder than i throught as i had to think about the genre of music I was using and the target market, how it would appeal to them. As my target market is 16-28 year olds, who are mainly from Hackney or South London. I came up with three different names:

Thinking about my Target Market I thought that, "The Realist" was a good music magazine name. As most of the Rap, Hip-Hop and R&B artist make music based on things real to them. By calling my magazine "The Realist" I would be imitating the music genres my magazine will be promoting/based on. 

I also found different fonts I may use for the title of my magazine. Such as those found above and bellow. 

Target Audience Analysis

Target Marketing Profile - Research

Definition:
A market profile is a set of attributes relating to a target population, and in business, a target group of buyers. These characteristics typically include demographic factors such as income, geographic factors such as region, and psychographic factors such as values.

Examples:

Comparisons Research

Analysis Of A Billboard Music Magazine

Magazine Mood Board

This is the mood board of the type of music magazine, i am going to produce. I chose "Billboard" magazine, because of the fact it is a mixed genre magazine that i think will be good to produce. As the audience for these magazines are varied. Also it will give me a chance to expand my ability to desgin and create a magazine that appeals to a variety of different target audiences.