Magazine Case Study

Record Label Background

Artist Case Study

History Of Rap

Music Magazine Notes

Music Magazine

Connotations - Opinions, interpretations, meaning (adjectives)
Denotations - facts, internal description (police descriptions)

Main Task Music Magazine - Front page, contents page and a double page spread of a new magazine.

Purpose of Magazines

• Entertain
• Inform

The tactile and visual nature is different from every other

Music Magazines I'm aware of

• Q
• The Source
• The Rolling Stones
• Mojo
• NME
• XXL
• Vibe
• Kerrang
• Rap Up

The things that are within a magazine

• Ratings - Reviews
• Music Models
• Interviews
• Album release dates
• Music relating news
• Awards
• Prizes
• Competitions
• Live Concerts

Why is it important that we do Genre Research?
To find out what the conventions are so that we can replicate them in our productions

Music Magazine Ideas

Analysis of Music Magazine

Mood Board

Moodboard

This Moodboard surrounds the genre of Rap. Here I have put different type of magazines so that it shows I understand the type of magazine I should be looking at for influence and ideas. I have also put icons such as money, girls and weed because those have been the 3 key topics within rap from the beginning however drugs never came into the rap industry until the 1990s.
As you can see the models I've used are famous rap figures such as Notorious BIG and Snoop Dog this shows my understanding of who is in the rap genre and how the models dress and portray them self on the magazine.
I have used different type of rap artist some being present rappers, others being old school rappers which shows I have understood that the rap genre has changed during the period of time, same with the rap image and the way rap magazines are presented.

CONTENTS PAGE

Contents Analysis

The pictures being used are supproting the different topics.  The contents page contains an outline of whats inside the magazine. Each section has a heading which summarises the what the topic is going to be about. The banner which is used is girls jumping for their results which link with the front cover. Each heading of the contents page contains a relation with the topics and pictures, the spotlight contains the most important information with in the magazine, the behind the scenes contains materials that students may not necessarily know about, top tips contain tips to help students throughout the year. 

Picture 10 is a student over looking her work and using her planner to look over work. Picture 6 is relating to finding a fun way for reading. Picture 12 is taken place in the tech room, tech is the most stressful subject and the model looks calm and we are trying to promote tech can be calm.

Final Front cover magazine

Analysis

My school magazine was very succesful because I was able to do my initial design by gathering over 50 students to form an A* which supports the idea of my magazine being an A* edition magazine. The theme of my magazine was gold because gold is a colour recognised to be for the rich/high class so I'm using gold because it shows that st angelas provides rich grades and high quality grades. The sell lines are surrounding the button so that the button has most of the attention as it is containing exciting information.

The banner is relating to the model picture and also the mast head because it is talking about the Grades being good. The button is red to help it stand out from the colour scheme. The banner is green and white because serviam is the St Angelas logo. The sell lines are also green so that it stands out. I used photoshop to blur the background so that the students are the main focus.