Initial Ideas

Background Ideas:

When I chose to do a print project I knew exactly what it was that I wanted to do immediately. The genre of music which I am currently interested in is rap / grime / hip-hop. Also in the market of magazines at the moment there is a large gap when you look at the genre of rap music. There hasn’t really been a successful rap/hip-hop magazine in the UK (especially grime music) but in the US there have been a few. With the rise in recognition of the grime and rap movement in the UK it means that a magazine such as the one I intend to create would be an intelligent creation. This is because everyone who begins to recognise the genre will want to find out more and in order to that they will want to read into it  and this will be an easily accessible form of information for anyone in need. Also it will provide a platform for new up and coming talent, by this I mean there will be publication of their music and their actions and as a result of this, they will have a higher chance of making it in the rap scene because they will have been given more of a chance. 

Plan of Action:

Due to the fact that my photography is what is needed in the work I am required to create, I am not going to be able to use already established artists for any of my photography but I will be able to mention their names. I plan to create a fake character profile of a fictional rapper from the London area and make them seem like they are “the next big thing”. After looking at conventions of rap music magazines, the front cover will require a mid-shot of the “rapper” from a low angle, this is so that he will look as if he is of high status and is in power. Also I will require a logo which stands out from the norm, this is due to the fact that grime music is significantly contrasting to other music genres. Another convention of all rap magazines is that the text which you require to be seen most is the largest size font on the page, as the font size decreases so does the significance of the text and this is because the big writing is the writing which catches eyes.

Precautions:

As a result of the preliminary process, I can now identify what it is that I would class as a strength and what I would class as a weakness. My weaknesses consisted of, photograph arrangement, arrangement of text and contents page arrangement. I was able to identify this when I was analysing my preliminary work. To improve on my weaknesses what I plan to do is discover a font which compliments the feel of grime/rap music so that everything is relative towards everything. Another thing that I plan to do during the process is, collaborating more than one photo onto a page, this is because in my preliminary work front cover and contents page only consisted one photo on each and they lacked any standout features if you were to compare them to other peoples work.