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Alysha Hackett talks about the biggest and greatest Hip-Hop Stars of today:

Lil Wayne: "I have always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game. Wayne is fucking dope"

Nicki Minaj: "She was my latest inspiration as an artist. She has made her music mainstream while still maintaining her dirty, raw bars at heart. She does an excellent job of getting her music heard and looks gorgeous while doing it."

Eminem: "This guy is my fucking idol! No one has ever been able to destroy the mic as much as Em. He is a lyrical genius and has the sickest flow in the game today. Hands down, the best ever. Legend!"

Contents Page Ideas

This are my ideas that I am looking to include in my Magazine. I have included main artists that I will want to talk about and have exclusive interviews with. I have also included charts and "Top Songs" to inspire the reader to listen to more songs and see if our favourite song is similar to theirs. Reviews on new albums will also be published on the mag and it will go into detail about the best songs on the album and the ones which we think didnt bang as much as the others

Contact Sheet

This is the contact sheet for my photoshoot. The main objective of this shoot was to get images for my front cover of my magazine and for my double page spread. I wanted to use a white background to really emphasise the model and make her stand out. I used various props such as a hoodie and a snapback to add a more hip-hop feel to my model. I wanted to use three different backgrounds to mix up the pictures in the magazine. The arty/grafitty background is my favourite as it is very urban  and links in with my genre of magazine extremely well.

Main Article Draft

Main Article Draft

Double Page Spread Article Introduction:

2013 just keeps getting better and better for the hottest UK talent star Gemma Malcolm as her new debut album “Listen Now” storms to Number 2 in the charts, just behind Eminem’s highly anticipated “The Marshall Mathers LP2”. We caught up with the 19 year old Hip-Hop sensation while she discusses her album, the music industry and her bright future ahead of her.

Full Article:

Meet Gemma Malcolm (as if you didn’t know). Her fast flowing rhymes and extremely clever word play has grabbed the Hip Hop world by the nuts. After five years of song writing and making beats on her father’s complimentary work laptop using low budget music studios, she’s finally soared on to everyone’s music library. Gemma kept a close relationship between her social life and her love of rap by using various different stories and complications that have emerged from her life so far and being able to express them through her Eight Bars. Miss Malcolm was born in Eastcote, Middlesex which is a small town in North West London. She went to Haydon School where she was excessively bullied and singled out for being different. “I hated school, but I loved English. It seemed to be the only thing I was good at." Gemma was a school dropout. She left school at the age of 16. "All they did was fuck with my head, but I wouldn't change a thing. Them fucking with my brain made me able to write how I do."

Draft Magazine Design

Costume and Prop Ideas

Colour Ideas

I have made various colour schemes to use during my magazine. My favourite colours are the Strong Red (1st One) and the Dark Blue (5th One). I think I like these two the best as they are extremely eye catching and stand out and that is what Hip-Hop is all about. Dark Blue represents knowledge, power, integrity and seriousness. Hip-Hop is about having power and being the best of the best so it links in well with a dark blue colour. Dark red is associated with willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrath. I think it is very important that i only use one main colour along with Black, Grey and White for my magazine because if not, you have the risk of making the magazine Over The Top. I do like the idea of having the text the main colour as it ties in nicely with the cover page but also makes the headings stand out.

MastHeads

I have gathered together a selection of font ideas which i believe will be successful for my magazine, i have ensured i used a variety of different fotns so that when i come down to making my final magazine i have all different styles of ideas so that i can come up with the best house style font.

I gathered together my fonts from the website www.dafont.com by using this website i was presented with a wide choice of funky stylish ideas, once downloading them i put them onto my In Design document and tweaked them slightly. On some i made more Bold/Italic and others i pushed the letters closer together.

My music magazine's genre is Hip-Hop/Rap this is conveyed through the fonts in which i have selected, they are big and powerful compared to normal fonts such as Arial, they suggest a sense of dramatic and strong feel of the music

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