New Media

Coverlines

"This is the Beginning" Alysha Hackett Exclusive

This will be my main coverline and will be a quote from my featured article about Alysha Hackett. This will encourage readers to want to read the magazine as it will get them excited for the future of the artists and keep them updated with whats going on in their life and whats going to happen next.

Kiss Land Tour

The Weeknd's "Kiss Land" Tour of the UK has just finished. This heading will be a section about our journalists being at a few of the shows and seeing how he has developed as an artist over the last year. From barely selling out a 3,000 capacity venue in December 2012 to selling out Two nights at the 02 Arena!

Albums Of The Month

This section of my magazine will be the Top 10 albums of the month but instead of sticking to the mainstream and having the album ratings being based on sales, we will have 3 judges who will rank the albums in top 5. This way it will give upcoming artists a chance to be put on our chart and push start their career.

Kanye Vs Drake

This section of my magazine will see two of the biggest artists in the game right now fight it out for 3 rounds. Rymes, Flow and Sales. This section will be a bit of friendly competition between the artists and will just give the readers a few stats and facts about the two artists.

 

Equipment

Camera and Lighting

For the images of my magazine I took my model, Tegan Grainger, otherwise known as Alysha Hackett, to the media classroom where I can have my photo shoot. I used a white screen as this will fully make the model the main focus of the image and will highlight all the colours she is wearing. 

I used a Canon 550d SLR for my photo shoot as it captures high quality pictures with little to no blurriness. The pictures needed to be sharp as the magazine will simply not look as professional if the images are not clear. The white screen is very effective because it is clean and simple and just brings all the audience's attention toward the model. White screens also have an advantage when it comes to editing the selected image as there is no other colours to play around with so I can enhance the image. The lights enabled me to change the way my images appeared and allowed to me to create the best possible pictures for my magazine. The lights also allowed me to create a small shadow which made it easier to edit my model for the final images. Combining the lights, white screen and the SLR allowed me to create extremely high quality pictures which can make my magazine look professional and classy.

 

Computer Software:

I am currently using InDesign to make my magazine instead of using Photoshop as In Design is a much more professional editing software and it is much easier to create magazines on the software. InDesign enables you to view the document as a magazine and you can use various different tools such as the master page which quickly and effectively adds the same text to all of the pages. This makes adding page numbers, websites and social networking links a lot easier as it prompts to audience to use these links as they will be on every page.
I also used Powerpoints, word documents and Prezis's a lot while planning my magazine and i aslo used Slideshare a lot while embeding documents. Because I have used these programs before it made it easier for me to get tasks done quickly instead of wasting time trying to find out different tools to use.

Box Out Text

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

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."

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

Magazine Name Ideas

Created my name ideas was a particually hard task for me at the start. I lacked ambition and wasn't aware of the name that i wanted to represent my whole magazine project. However, when I started thinking of a couple basic names to do with Hip-Hop, I then could not stop. Anything that came into my head that even slighty was relevent with my genre I wrote down.

I have picked out three favourites from my list. These being:

1) "Pen 2 Pad" I think this one is good because most rappers use a pen and paper to write down their music/lyrical inspirations. At first I wanted my magazine name to just be one word name but as i started writing down ideas, I began to like phrases/sentances that i can use as abriviations. I can use "Pen 2 Pad" as "P2P".

2) "Wired" I really like this one as there is various ways I can write it and using different fonts/designs to make it as unique as possible. The word Wired can link in with various hip-hop synonyms as it links in with the microphone on a stage venue and and a wire leading into 18 Watt Double Barrel Boombox blasting the artists track with amplified base for an even louder sound/

3) Personalsation - I am really fond of the idea of making the magazine seem personal to the reader so I like the idea of puting "My" or "Your" in the magazine name. I think using "Ur" will be better than using "Your" as when the title is abreviated it will come out sounding better as "U" instead of "Y". An idea for this are "UrLyrics" meaing the articles can be seen as some form or lyrics.