Front conver analysis

 As you can see both magazines use big font sizes to make their text stand out and only the important bits are big as the reader only needs to read them to decide whether they want to buy the magazine and read on or just move along so the choice of words are very important.

 These two front cover images are mid-shots two well known artists in the hip hop genre. The colour scheme used is quite similar as black white and red seem to be mostly associated with music in this genre. The three colours help each other stand out and easier to read.

Both the images seem to go over the masthead in both magazines but these are well established rap magazines and people will be well aware of what it says.

Both models are facing the camera which is a main convention of magazine in general which is good and it is important not to go against these conventions. The banner at the top helps draw in readers as it provides additional information that they might find useful and may influence their decision in buying the magazine or not.

It is important not to disregard any of these conventions as they will affect how people percieve your magazine and whether or not they will buy it or not.

Contents page analysis

Front cover analysis

Two contents pages comparison

These two magazine contents pages represent two different genres so it makes it earlier to compare them in many ways.
Both of these magazines use an image of a model but the difference is that in the kerrang magazine has more that one model and more than one picture. This is a feature you find in all kerrang magazines as they tend to feature many artists where as XXL magazine mainly features one.
Also, the kerrang magazine has a variety of colours as it's target market is more diverse compared to the other magazine as its target market is much smaller, not many adults listen to hip-hop music.
The layout is different in both magazines, in the kerrang magazine, the contents page is more of a double page spread where as the XXL magazine's contents page is only on one page. which is more conventional for their type of magazine
The kerrang magazine features, promotional features at times with competitions to win tickets to a concert where as you would associate that time of thing with the XXL magazine.

Rap magazine contents page analysis

XXL magazine have gone for a red and black colour scheme for their contents page  as they feel that it best represents their genre and their magazine. The cover story stands out as a result which is helpful to the readers.

The image used is of two rappers standing back to back and they only used one image compared to other magazines which is iconic to only to XXL magazine.

The most important page numbers are larger to get readers to notice them and by making it as simplistic as this, it makes it easily accessible to the audience to as it allows them to easily find what they are looking for.

There is no pulled quote so it misses one of the elements a magazine should have and a pulled quote is effective as it can lure the reader to find out more things like thoughts and feelings of the audience.

The magazine logo is at the bottom and at the top right of the context page. The one at the top stands out more as it would be one of the first thing the audience will notice as they read from the top left to right, and the one at the bottom is generic many magazines as they all usually put it there along side their websites.

The font and layout adheres to the house style  of the magazine as it is big and bold and mainly one colour black, in fact black is the most dominate colour in the magazine maybe to represent the majority of their target market even though they don't call it out, the images, words and font they used shows who they expoect their target market to be. There is no letter from the editor as XXL magazine do not usually do this .

Two DPS Analysed, Rap and one that Inspires you

Two media dps analysis from Ceders17

Moodboard analysis and Draft of Questions

Summary

This moodboard is a representative of the target audience for my music magazine as it reflects thier interests and the famous artists within this genre. The artists used like for example Eminem are hugely popular to the moodboard as he is a very popular hip hop artist right now and he is there to represent this. Also the kind of dancing and people involved with hip hop music is in the moodbaord as many fans of hip hop tend to mirror the diffferent styles whon in this genre and that maybe fashion or dancing too.

Draft questions

Hip Hop magazine research

 These are a few of some popular hip hop magazine in circulation at the moment. As you can see they all feature a popular hip-hop magazine as the model in order to attract more customers, its better having someone well known as Eminem than using a complete nobody that no one has even heard of before.
The front covers usually have strong eye-catching colours that contrast in order to make them stand out. This is important as the main important things stand out with the use of colour and fonts which directs the readers attention to the masthead, headline and sell lines.

 The articles inside feature big eye-catching images that reflect the hip hop culture i.e gangs, weapons etc. Also at times it features double page spreads which give the reader a sense the persona of the model(s) or concerts (see below) in order for them to get a feel of the atmosphere they are missing at these events so that they may want to be a part of it in the future. Furthermore the articles are also very informative and give a lot of  detail to things in order to keep the reader entertain and well informed but not boring them with t
oo much writing at the same time.

The contents page of rap magazines mainly feature one artist/model and obviously is clearly representative of your genre. The colour scheme for this page is extremely important here and like this one it should stand out and make it easier for the reader to find the relevant article they are looking for without struggling to read. That is the main aim as if the reader has to struggle to read the page the chances are that they will not buy your magazine.

These DPS pages stand out for various reasons. In the first DPS its all colourful and this is used to represent the kind of atmosphere you can get from going to these live performances which entices the reader and may make them what to go to see these performances to experience this kind of atmosphere.
The other DPS is more focused on a particular person/artist and seems to be more informative than the other as it is most likely an interview. This is important as it can be quite helpful to the audience as they might want to learn more about this person/artist. I should focus my magazine on one of these two forms as it seems to be what many other DPS' are like.

Magazine Plan - Planning Sheet

• What genre/s of music will your magazine cover? : The genre of  music my magazine will cover is HIp-Hop.
• Who is the Target Audience? How old are they? Where do they live? What are their interests? The target audience of this magazine will be latte teenagers and people in their early 20s, it will be male friendly as men are more likely to listen to Hip-Hop than women as they are more interested.
• What will the name of your magazine be? Why? Connotation? The name of my music magazine be"Incite", it means excite and it connotes enjoyment and excitement. 
• What will your masthead look like? Do you have any ideas for fonts?  The masthead of my magazine will be dark blue and it will feature almost graffiti-like font.
• What will be the focal image for your front cover and why? The focal image of the magazine will be two popular Hip-Hop artists to maximise the amount of people that will buy the magazine.
• What photography will be required? Shot type, Angle composition. The type of the shot that i will use as the main picture will be a double mid shot of the two popular artists in the middle with a white background so that they stand out.
• What mise en scene will be required? Location? Clothing?Make Up? Lighting? Use of colour?The mise-en-scene that will required will be casual clothes for the two artists, a clear white background no make up and minimal lighting as the background is already white.
• What would be your sell lines? How ill you intice your target audience? My sell lines will include things about the artists' new album as maybe people want to find out more about the album, also it will try and lead people into the character the a particular artist in order for people to feel curious and feel as if they want more.
• What items and feature articles you would need in the contents page? some of the features of the contents page will be pictures of the artists performing on stage and competition to win free tickets or items.
• What is the focus of the double page spread? interview? Feature? Review? The focus of the double page spread will be a group of artists and their respectable albums or achievements.
• What photography will be required fpr the double page spread? The photography will feature all the different artists posing in different ways on a wall to give a street feeling as most Hip-Hop artists used to rap with their friends on the streets and are from the "hood" like everyone else