Proposal:
Name: I chose the name: "Rappers Delight" as it is a name associated with Hip-Hop as it the song title of the SugarHill Gang who are a famous Rap group. Therefore, I felt this name would be fitting to have because it relates to the genre of music I'm trying to reach. Furthermore, the denotation conveys that it is a delight to read.
Genre: The genre of Hip-Hop was chosen by people that took part in my questionnaire so all that will feature in my magazine will be Hip-Hip theme and style.
The creation of my magazine: After planning and researching for the preparation of my music magazine I came to the conclusion that I would use the genre of Hip-Hop music. I chose this genre simply because I personally love Hip-Hop and the messages that it sends out especially those that are positive, as well as the artists that produce the music controversial or not. Hip-Hop is a a unique, popular and entertaining genre of music. I also chose Hip-Hop because of the responses from my questionnaire which the majority vote went toward.
To begin my magazine I had to take a number of pictures which suited my magazines genre, this picture included relevant props such as money, phones and jewellery in order to give my artist a gangster look but also a business look. I drew inspiration from another edition of vibe which shows 50 Cent in a suit using this I have decided to make my model dress in a similar code. I want to portray this look with on my magazine as it reflects how Hip-Hop is progressing.
After taking the photographs they then had to be edited in order for them to be placed on different backgrounds. I edited my photographs through Adobe PhotoShop this consisted of smoothing the skin and brightening up the eyes. After editing my photographs I began to roughly place my images on to Adobe In design as I explored how to use the software. Earlier on in the project I began to draft my article for my double page spread in order to have enough time to adapt to my draft.
Pictures: Once my photographs had been shortlisted and roughly placed into In Design it helped me to place my picture so that they fitted so that I would be able to add text around the pictures. When I researched into other Hip-Hop music magazines I established that the layouts were always very simple with the use of the staring artist on the cover so the image would be the centre of attention, bold title colour complemented by the background to make it stand out and bold sub-headings of the features in the magazine.
This helped me to layout my own magazine as I decided to follow the same design with the exception of adding more images to the front cover to complement what else is featuring in my magazine
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