MOOD BOARD

For my mood board I decided to collect images that best described my magazine. In this I chose to use artists who are very known and popular in the hip hop and r&b and the images instantly tell you the type of genre this magazine is. I also trued to use similar poses for my magazine such as the photo of rihanna staring directly at the camera for my front cover to creat attention to the audience who may walk past my magazine. Artists such as Beyonce, Rihanna, Ciara, Drake and Kanye West are well known and sucessful in the music industry, they are always in the charts so people who don't particularly listen to this genre of music can be able to identify who they are and the type of music they sing. This mood board helped me with the kind of images to post on my blog

Collage of my magazine influences

INFLUENCE COLLAGE

From this collage, it shows where my ideas were influenced by and also the reasons why i used the colours I used. It also gave me ideas as to where I would place my main images on my magazine and also how I chose the way i would like my magazine cover to be structured

My target audience

MY MUSIC MAGAZINE'S TARGET AUDIENCE.

The target audience I have for my music magazine is the audience who are into r&b music and also rap.   To attract my audience I used music artists who are very popular in the hip hop music industry and this does this by attracting people from the ages of 14-25 and this is because the are the people who listen this type of music. The bright colours used are also significant because they are the kind of colours used in the hip hop magazines. My magazine is influenced by the popular VIBES magazine and I get a few of my ideas from that. This helped me make my magazine have the edgy urban hip-hop look as I used similar images as they did. Vibe is known to feature all the latest hip hop and urban news such as; newly released singles, gossip, pictures etc so I thought their magazine would be best used for mine while its in the making.

My flat plan used for my music magazine double page spread

MY MUSIC MAGAZINE'S DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD FLAT PLAN

This is the flat plan I followed to make my contents page, with this i followed the layout I would like to use. I made a written plan on paper but then decided to make a new one on the computer to make it look more organised. This flat plan helped me have a brief idea of how my double page spread is going to turn out like. I also started to prepare the interview questions for the double page spread while making this.

contents page flat plan

MY CONTENTS PAGE FLAT PLAN

This was my first music magazine contents page plan. I made this plan to give me a brief idea of how my magazine contents layout would turn out and if it would have looked organised. I followed the structure of the plan while creating my magazine cover and it helped me as it gave me a set out of how to lay out my main image and how to layout my heading as it is not the regular heading structure